Paul's Cooking Blog.
Posted in Cooking on Feb 22nd, 2010
Flan is a super simple dessert with just a few ingredients and a great dessert. You can make individual flans or one big one like I did. There’s a bunch of different ways to end up with about the same thing, Flan ( Creme Caramel, etc ) seems to a ‘traditional’ dessert all over the [...]
Posted in Cooking on Dec 7th, 2009
The other day Central Market had some freshly picked ( burrowed? ) Oregon Black Truffles. I’ve never cooked with a whole truffle before so decided to grab some and see what I could come up with. They also had some nice pork on special so I decided to do a Saltimbocca. [...]
Posted in Cooking on Dec 6th, 2009
Chicken Fried Steak (CFS) is an Austin staple. Usually a CFS is made from a fairly cheap cut of beef which has been tenderized to within an inch of it’s life. Being a big fan of slow cooked meats, and recently playing with Sous Vide cooking I was pretty sure I could make a [...]
Posted in Cooking on May 12th, 2008
My girlfriend is a big Mario fan, so when she was out one morning I decided to bake her a treat. This was inspired by Fractal Cookies. I made up three batches of cookie dough. The plain white came out with a perfect consistency, the red was a [...]
Posted in Cooking on Apr 28th, 2008
I work in a very creative environment, and we sometimes let our creativity get carried away with itself. A perfect example is an office prank that we performed today ( with a few days of preperation for it ). One of my staff (Matt, hence Christmatt) was away [...]
Posted in Cooking on Apr 21st, 2008
I’ve been baking bread for quite some time now, and I’ve never been totally happy with the results… until now! I wasn’t meticulous about measuring instead just went for the feel, and I kneaded it for longer than usual. I was making pizza bases, but [...]
Posted in Cooking on Apr 18th, 2008
A few days ago I stopped at a little Italian deli that I’ve been eyeing off for a while. While taking in all the wonderful delights from Italy and the Mediterranean I came across a small mexican section. Basking in a ray of sunlight was a stack of cans of Chipotle [...]
Posted in Cooking on Apr 14th, 2008
With plans to fire up the smoker I headed down to a local bulk butcher. I went straight to the cheap cuts and started grabbing meat. First up was a big chunk of pork, I had plans for some lamb, but they didn’t have any shoulder. I then [...]
Posted in Cooking on Mar 9th, 2008
An excellent dish, both Vegetarian and Gluten free for the culinary challenged amongst us. The addition of nut butter adds a nice taste to the potato mash, and the Annato paste gives it an excellent colour, if you can’t find Annato paste, you could probably use some Tumeric. Also if [...]
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