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Recipe: Vinegar Peppers
Homemade Vinegar Peppers An essential component of Chicken Riggies and (obviously) Pork Chops with Vinegar Peppers, these couldn’t be easier to make. Your home prep won’t be exactly the same as Casa...
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Recipe: Buffalo Chicken Dip
Susan’s Buffalo Chicken Dip… with some serious damage in the first hour of the party. Like it says… Buffalo Chicken Dip! Our friend Susan made this for her son Zack’s high school graduation party but...
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Recipe: Pickled Carrots with Ginger
Pickled Carrots with Ginger Simple ingredients produce a complex flavorful result. Use these pickled carrots with ginger in salads or on a charcuterie tray; the gingery brine is tasty enough to drink...
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Recipe: Corn Cucumber Salsa
Corn Cucumber Salsa Inspired by a memorable onion and cucumber salsa at Taqueria GDL in Glens Falls, NY. I had on hand some leftover Mexican grilled corn and Pickled Onions a la Mexicana, but you can...
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Recipe: Umami Butter
Umami Butter I happened on umami butter as a sauté base for green beans… fantastic. Also works well with mushrooms. I would consider it for any sautéed food that could benefit from a jolt of this...
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Recipe: Giardinara (Mixed Pickled Vegetables)
Giardinara Here is a simple Giardinara recipe that uses no oil or sugar so the fresh flavor of the vegetables comes through. Feel free to vary based on what’s on sale/looks good/is on hand. Makes 3...
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Recipe: Sauce Packet Salad Dressing
Sauce Packet Salad Dressing You hate to throw out that bag of leftover salad greens from your hotel, but your bottled salad dressing won’t make it through security at the airport. What to do? Grab some...
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Recipe: Bacon Fat
A nice jar of Bacon Fat Many dishes (especially beans) benefit from a tablespoon or two of Bacon Fat, aka Bacon Grease. But, like pita, bacon fat is one of those ubiquitous ingredients it’s hard to...
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Recipe: Granny Shimer’s Pickled Beets & Eggs (from Jake Bryan)
Pickled Beets, Eggs and Onion Reader Jake Bryan was kind enough to share his grandmother’s Pennsylvania Dutch recipe for pickled beets and eggs with onion. Only modification I’ve made is the salt...
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Recipe: Halal Guys White Sauce
Halal Guys White Sauce on some kebab meat and veggies, wrapped in a pita. After all the speculation (and intentional misdirection) Halal Guys White Sauce proved surprisingly easy to copycat. It’s just...
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Recipe: No-No Caesar Dressing
No-No Caesar Dressing stands up to crunchy kale Awhile back we took on the challenge of getting rid of the egg in caesar dressing to make it safe on long picnic days. Now we’re going further and...
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Recipe: Maple Apple Butter
Bloggers on Instagram and Pinterest complain that maple apple butter isn’t photogenic. They’re right. When windfall apples are all over your yard and you have a gallon of maple syrup in the pantry, you...
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Recipe: Sichuan Pickled Vegetables
Sichuan Pickles in proofing jar (not really necessary; because the fermentation is slight you can use a regular lid but don’t tighten all the way). Here is a taste of the treats which await in Fuchsia...
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Recipe: No-Sugar Cocktail Sauce
No-Sugar Cocktail Sauce goes nicely with shrimp, crab and other chilled seafood. Commercial seafood cocktail sauce contains both refined sugar and corn syrup. Who needs it? This no-sugar cocktail sauce...
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How to present a pickle plate
My pickle plate (would eliminate either the green beans or asparagus, both at bottom, next time) It irks me that places are charging $4 or so for a “pickle plate” the size of a saucer with 3 or 4...
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Recipe: Seafood Cocktail Sauce
Seafood Cocktail Sauce with shrimp. The shrimp were boiled with Old Bay Seasoning which accounts for the pinkishness and flecks of spices. Delicious. Why pay for an expensive bottle of seafood cocktail...
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Recipe: Niter Kibbeh (Ethiopian clarified butter)
Niter Kibbeh, in solid and liquid forms Niter Kibbeh is the cooking medium for many Ethiopian dishes, providing a flavorful undertone to more aggressive spices. It should be fragrant, herbaceous in...
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Recipe: Schug Yemenite Green Sauce
Schug, ready to work its magic Try our schug recipe on your next falafel pita: a dollop of yoghurt sauce or Halal Guys White sauce, a schmear of schug and you’re in heaven. We concocted our schug...
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Comfort Classics: Texas-Style Barbecue Sauce
Texas-Style Barbecue Sauce, on meatloaf Comfort Classics is a new feature for our challenging times. We’ll revisit some recipes that have appeared on Burnt My Fingers for easy, reassuring dishes, sides...
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Recipe: Thai Chili Vinegar
Thai Chili Vinegar, made with chopped jalapeños Thai Chili Vinegar is the white liquid with chili slices floating that’s on the table in every Thai restaurant. It’s a simpler, quicker cousin of our Nam...
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