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Recipe: Pickled Red Onions
Pickled Red Onions. Pro tip: choose onions that will fit in your jar when sliced. Pickled red onions are easy, delicious and oh so instagrammable. They also have a short refrigerator life, turning...
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Recipe: Happy Bellyfish Kimchi
Happy Bellyfish Kimchi. We made this kimchi through a class with Happy Bellyfish, an online cooking school based in Germany that specializes in fermentations. (More about them later when we review Zoom...
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Recipe: Restaurant-Style Italian Dressing from scratch
Restaurant Style Italian Dressing. There’s a reason your home-made Italian dressing is not as good as the savory stuff in your favorite red sauce place. Restaurant-style Italian dressing has two...
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Recipe: Make Tzatziki at Home
It’s very easy to make Tzadziki at home. We’ve been eating a lot of tzatziki during the pandemic. It’s healthful, refreshing and delicious and will taste even better as warm weather returns… what’s not...
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Recipe: Prunes in Cognac
Prunes in Cognac.Prunes in Cognac is a nice accompaniment to a rich dish such as coq au vin; we came across it when researching rabbit recipes. The Windy Kitchen uses it in her rabbit prep but we...
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Recipe: Best Pimento Cheese
Best Pimento Cheese Recipe? You decide. We considered all the variations, tested a few, and came up with a product we’re pretty satisfied with. Is this the best pimento cheese recipe? Taste and decide...
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Recipe: Radish Kimchi
Radish Kimchi Radish kimchi is just as good as the kind made with Napa cabbage, and at typical prices for daikon is also a lot cheaper to make. We like the recipe from My Korean Kitchen because it...
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Recipe: Bleu Cheese Spread
Bleu Cheese Spread, which The Pleasure of Cooking calls “Coulis Bleu”. You want bleu cheese on your burger, but the crumbles keep falling off. This Bleu Cheese Spread recipe is the remedy. Coat the top...
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Recipe: Sumac Onions
Sumac Onions. Dominic Colose, who runs an excellent middle eastern restaurant in our town, recently professed his love of sumac onions in a Facebook post. Research revealed that most sumac onion...
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Recipe: David Chang Pickles
David Chang Quick Pickles. If you look on page 65 of your Momofuku cookbook*, you’ll find David Chang’s recipe for quick salt pickles. It couldn’t be simpler: slice cucumbers super thin, then toss with...
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Recipe: Carrot Pickles with Ginger and Anise
Carrot Pickles with Ginger and Anise. I got this nifty cutter to make the serrated slices. Carrot pickles are a bit mild on their own, but they play well with others on a pickle plate. The ginger,...
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Recipe: Hotel Room Pickles
Hotel Room Pickles. Hotel room pickles happened because we had some nice carnitas and wanted some Mexican-style pickled vegetables (escabeche) to accompany. We’ve noticed the taco shops no longer put...
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Recipe: TikTok Cabbage Pickle
TikTok Cabbage Pickle.TikTok Cabbage Pickle is pretty, versatile and easy to make. (I transcribe the recipe in a few minutes and regret I did not capture the name of the original poster.) It’s a cross...
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My grape jelly secret
My secret grape jelly stash from McDonald’s. Actually I have two grape jelly secrets. The first is that it is a surprising ingredient in our Mystery Mayo, the doenjang dressing in Koreatown A Cookbook...
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Variations on a pickled onion
Today’s pickled onion was cooked to a soft, almost spreadable consistency. We grilled cevapcici (an Adriatic sausage) to serve with avjar (a red pepper topping) on Memorial Day. What else do you need?...
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Recipe: Avjar Red Pepper Spread
Ajvar Roasted Red Pepper Spread. Avjar is a condiment used through the Balkans made with ground red peppers plus some eggplant to stretch the recipe. Serious Eats did an exhaustive experiment to find...
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Recipe: Onion Jam
Onion Jam. I wanted to reproduce the Divina Onion Jam I bought at Rainbow Grocery in San Francisco and was mostly successful. This stuff is intense; use it sparingly on a sandwich or serve on a...
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Recipe: Chicago-Style Giardiniera
Chicago-Style Giardiniera. We have some Chicago-style Italian beef sandwiches in our future for which Chicago-Style Giardiniera is a key component. Compared to our standard giardiniera it’s spicier,...
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Recipe: Marinated Artichokes and Hearts of Palm
Marinated Artichokes and Hearts of Palm. Stores sell marinated artichokes, so why not marinated artichokes and hearts of palm? They’re both mild vegetables that contribute more texture than taste, and...
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Recipe: Tomato Jam
Tomato Jam with brie on crackers. Tomato jam would make a nice accompaniment to our onion jam if you’re putting together a fancy sandwich. It also goes great on a cracker with a smear of brie. No need...
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