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Winter

Beef Bourguignon Recipe (video)

February 9, 2010
Beef Bourguignon Recipe

One of my goals with NoRecipes is to show you how to make restaurant quality meals that a person who works full time can make. This means taking shortcuts where it won’t be noticed while taking the “scenic route” where it counts. When it comes to stocks, I reserve homemade stock for dishes like clear [...]

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Gomamiso Yosenabe (Sesame Miso Hotpot)

January 22, 2009
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Nabe (pronounced nabeh) is the Japanese word for “pot” and is used to refer to a class of dishes which includes favourites such as shabu shabu and sukiyaki. Yose (pronounced yoseh) means to “put together”, so yosenabe is a dish that’s often cooked in a pot at the table with meat, seafood and veggies put [...]

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Sopa de Ajo con Huevo

November 22, 2008
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While it’s not much to look at, this is a fantastically warming, simple soup that makes for a great meal when you’re short on time or ingredients. Popular in the Castilla region of Spain, Sopa de Ajo literally means “garlic soup”. It’s made with lots of garlic, jamón serrano, smoked paprika, large pieces of stale [...]

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Winter Bean Peasant Stew

November 9, 2008
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It was cold and rainy in Manhattan yesterday and after a day spent wandering around the Chocolate Show and the Asian Contemporary Art Fair, I wanted something warm and fulfilling that wouldn’t take a lot of effort to make. Thoughts of Cassoulet and Feijoada both popped into my head but those aren’t the kind of [...]

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Oden

November 7, 2008
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Soon after the leaves fall and the weather cools, people tend to crave comfort. For some of us, comfort comes in the form of food, and Oden is a quintessential staple of Japanese comfort food.
In the winter months, street carts, ramen shops and izakayas (pubs) all over Japan start serving the simple warming stew. [...]

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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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Cider Braised Veal Chops

March 13, 2008
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This dish was actually born out of a mistake. I meant to get a boneless tender cut that I could pound into a schnitzel. Instead I ended up with a bone-in chuck chop (part of the problem with ordering food online) that would have ended up more chewy than tasty.
Chuck is a not-so-tender (though [...]

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Chipotle turkey chili with pickled jalepenos

March 9, 2008
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It used to be that the word “chili” would conjure up images of brown chunky mush that looked (and smelled) like something you would feed a furry four legged companion. The only thing that would make the chili of my memories remotely edible was to douse it with loads of cheese, sour cream, onions, and [...]

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