Growing up in a Chinese household, roasted meats regularly made it onto our dinner table each week. However, given the fact that both my mother and father worked full-time jobs, in addition to raising three crazy misbehaved children, these meats were never prepared at home (despite my mother being an amazing cook). It would just take too dang long. …
Trevin had the good idea of trying to make a Paseo-style sandwich with the sous vide. I like this idea because (a) Paseo sandwiches are awesome, (b) pork is awesome and (c) I like a good challenge. We came up with this idea while Paseo was closed. It has since reopened, but I still wanted the challenge. …
Flank steak is still one of my favorite cuts of meat due to the texture and versatility. It’s a relatively long and flat cut of meat, and used in traditional dishes like a London Broil and commonly used as a replacement for skirt steak in fajitas. …
Finally found a delicious recipe over at Stefan’s Gourmet Blog for Pork Carnitas that turned out marvelously for a dinner party we had the other night. Everyone of our guests commented how juicy and tender the pork was. Winner! Due to laziness of not wanting to make our own pork stock in Stefan’s original recipe, we substituted chicken stock instead and the dish didn’t seem to miss a beat. …
When I was a kid, the thing that I looked forward to the most on the weekends was my mom’s soft-boiled eggs on toast. It consisted of a seemingly perfect soft boiled egg (a runny yolk, yet firm white), slightly salted on top of a buttered slice of toast. …
Dulce de Leche is a dessert popular in South America, and something I’ve always loved. It literally is translated as “candy of milk” or “milk candy” and is made by very slowly heating milk which causes the sugars to caramelize. This results in a brown deliciousness that is perfect on all sorts of dessert, my favorite being vanilla ice cream 🙂 …
If you’ve ever been to a Korean BBQ restaurant, you’ll remember this cut of meat, and remember it fondly. If flaken style ribs were an 80’s supermodel, they’d be Jill Goodacre: not everybody knows about them, but they’re really damned awesome (and married to Harry Connick, Jr?). Sorry for the tortured metaphor. …
One of my coworkers brought back a gift pack of BBQ sauce and rub from Salt Lick BBQ, and we were left with a conundrum: what to do with this stuff? Well, it turns out that you should have a meat-acular potluck on a random Monday. I wanted to sous vide something, someone else is working on the ribs, someone else on the beans, etc. …
Sometimes when you’re making dinner, you just make too much. This is the case when I made the Sous Vide Country Style Pork Ribs with Dijon Sauce last week. We had enough for dinner. And, lunch the next day. And, we still had half of the lot left. What to do? …
