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Choucroute Garnie

May 7, 2009
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Choucroute Garnie is a hearty Alsatian dish made from choucroute (sauerkraut), sausages, cured meats and potatoes.
Disclaimer: This is not a dish for the faint of heart. If you have heart problems, eating a heaping bowl of Choucroute Garnie will probably make them worse. Also, if you’ve looked at one of Thomas Keller’s cookbooks and [...]

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Homemade Sauerkraut (Choucroute)

May 5, 2009
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A little over a month ago during an intense moment of food geekery, Claire, Stephane and I decided to make our own choucroute (sauerkraut) and saucisse(sausage) from scratch. The deal was that I’d make the sauerkraut and they’d tackle the sausages.
The next day I went out and bought a large head of cabbage and [...]

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Okonomiyaki (Japanese Pancake)

April 1, 2009
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Okonomiyaki is often described as a “Japanese pizza”, but it’s actually more like a savoury pancake in composition. The name roughly translates to “fried as you like it” and refers to the fact that you can put anything you like into it.
It’s a great dish that you can make in a pinch because all [...]

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Corned Beef in Stout with Mustard Chutney

March 17, 2008

I really hate to be cliche, but it is St. Paddy’s day and in the 31 years I’ve been around, almost all of them included corned beef and cabbage for supper on March 17th. The irony here isn’t the fact that we’re a half Japanese half Scottish family, but rather the fact that Corned Beef [...]

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