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Archive for Hot Sauce
A Thai Dinner Party at Home, Part I
I found a stash of recipes I’ve worked on before and then somehow forgotten. Someday I gotta get organized! In the meantime, I’d like to share this collection of Thai, Indonesian and Malaysian dishes. I’ll be adding them to Dad’s Chile Cookbook, and of course I’ll upload the majority of them to the Recipes du [...] Read more »
Homesick Again
I woke up homesick this morning. For a place I visit infrequently, and not since January of 2007. Yang Ming Shan, the mountain park and resort only a city bus ride from downtown Taipei, Taiwan, is the area I mean. In particular, the village of Zhu Zi Hu, or Bamboo Lake in American-speak, was on [...] Read more »
Friday Follies X: The Food X-Files
So the weekend’s upon us, and you want to get out of the house. After all, the honey-do list is overwhelming, the kids are hanging around now that school’s out, and there’s a whole wonderful world waiting for you out there. Of course, with gas prices like they are, you can’t go far, but maybe [...] Read more »
Home to New Mexico
No, I’m not going to New Mexico. However, a good friend of mine will be retiring there next summer, and this summer he’s out there in the fresh mountain air, working on his retirement home. We talk all the time about good food and the fun we have cooking and trying out new dishes. He [...] Read more »
Let the Recipes Begin!
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Recipes, get your hot recipes!
I was recently reading an old issue of Chile Pepper Magazine and got interested in a couple of sauces that use guajillo peppers. I tried them out, adjusted them to suit me, and now they’re on the Recipes du Jour page.
Roasted guajillo peppers have a distinctive flavor, and I really enjoy [...] Read more »
Home Cookin’ Chilehead Style
I have decided: June will be Home Cooking Month! Food just like mother used to make. Provided dear ol’ Mom was a ragin’ chilehead. Hot dishes from around the world; and I’m not talking Cate Blanchett or Aishwarya Rai! (Well, okay; you want to discuss them, we can talk! But I digress.)
Here’s a quick salsa, [...] Read more »
Turkey Day’s Over; Now What?
The bird has been carved, the big games are over (I hope your team won, unless they played mine), the relatives have all gone home (if you’re lucky). The annual Question hangs over your head like a sleet-pregnant cloud:
“Whatever am I going to do with this massive pile of leftovers THIS time?”
It’s a personal theory [...] Read more »
The Big Nut
I’ve been spending time in the Home of the World’s Largest Pecan: Seguin,Texas. I had meetings with faculty at Texas Lutheran University, where I will take a short sabbatical in the spring. I went to school there, more years ago than I care to mention in public, and the school has [...] Read more »
