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Deliciously dumbing down duck curry

April 13, 2015 by Michelle

Michelle has been revisiting David Thompson’s Thai Food, a cookbook we’ve had for many years. In addition to enjoying the stories about Thai culture and history, she has also been searching for some fresh recipe ideas. The ingredient list in a recipe for “red duck curry” drew her attention, and our first preparation went well in spite of the omission of shrimp paste (we need to visit some bigger city Asian markets again soon) and the addition of some vegetables. While we did bone out the […]

Categories: Broccoli, Cooking, Duck, Food, Recipes, Sweet potatoes, Thailand

Pot roast with Guinness and dried cherries (skip the sweet potatoes, go for the slaw)

March 26, 2015 by Michelle

We have been working our way through a batch of beef we bought from our biodynamic farm neighbors. While we enjoyed much of it, we were unsatisfied with the lean roast cuts (one rump, one sirloin tip). We tried several different methods with them, and in each the meat turned out to be dry and fairly tasteless. The experience left Steve ruing not experimenting with barding and larding, and left Michelle with the idea to send Steve out to buy a chuck roast. When Steve returned from the grocery, he […]

Categories: Beef, Cherries, Cooking, Food, Recipes, Sweet potatoes

Sweet Potato Soup with Sorghum Butter continues use of country ham

December 16, 2014 by Michelle

Gourmandistan has been going through our chunked, frozen remnants of Thanksgiving country ham much faster than we’ve ever used Steve’s home-cured guanciale. Our freezer holds quite a few packages of cured pork jowl, which have been waiting to be made into pasta carbonara or spuma. (Michelle, who despises spuma and always finds better options than pasta carbonara, wishes the guanciale packages would simply disappear, and may aid them in doing so someday.) The Newsom’s ham, however, has been called out on several occasions to […]

Categories: Cooking, Cured meats, Food, Recipes, Soups & Stews, Sweet potatoes

Hulk Hogan, Sorghum and Sweet Potato Pancakes

January 29, 2012 by Steve

A Real American Breakfast, a cookbook borrowed from her mom’s collection, put Michelle in mind of this morning’s meal, and Steve in mind of Hulk Hogan. As Steve (or assorted Hulkamaniacs) can tell you, Hulk was once the “Real American.” Born from humble beginnings, pumped up in the steroid-fueld ’80s to fight the cartoonish Iron Sheik, he now spends his time on social media and reality TV and defending rumors that he’s less the man than he claims to be. […]

Categories: Breakfast, Cooking, Food, Recipes, Sorghum, Sweet potatoes, Vegetarian

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Deliciously dumbing down duck curry

Pot roast with Guinness and dried cherries (skip the sweet potatoes, go for the slaw)

Sweet Potato Soup with Sorghum Butter continues use of country ham

Hulk Hogan, Sorghum and Sweet Potato Pancakes