New URL

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New Vegan Blog

Hi everyone, I have decided to go Vegan for 90 days and working out at least 5 times per week during that 90 day period.
I am journeling my missteps, trials, tribulations, and hopefully successes at http://iamtheanimal.blogspot.com
I will still be posting to this here blog, at least as much as I have done recently.

Donnor Party Special

As befitting this special day, here’s a recipe I invented for special occasions.
You will need:

4 tablespoons grapeseed oil 

2 tablespoons butter 

1 medium onion, thinly sliced 

2 pounds of meat, deboned, dark meat preferred

8 cloves of garlic

salt and pepper to taste

Cover the meat liberally with salt and pepper. 

Over a medium fire, add the butter and half of the oil.

When the [...]

Using Salt

Using salt is one of the three most important skills in cooking, the other two being good knife skills and the proper use of heat.  For many, hearing that salt is a basic cooking skill will come as a surprise.  Given the linkage been salt and high blood pressure and other heart diseases, many home [...]

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Keeping the Resolution: Mexican Lasagna

This is something I cooked up last night as I stood before my pantry trying furiously to figure out what to serve the boy and I.  At some level, I hate to even list it as a healthy recipe since it uses so many canned goods (high in sodium) but at the same time, it [...]

Recipe: Fried Yucca

I worked out how to make yucca fries from my friend John.  It is really simple.

Yucca
Neutral oil for frying, canola is fine
Salt 

Boil the yucca for 45 minutes or until starting to beccome fork tender
Remove and slice the yucca into steak fry sized pieces, two inches by 1/2 inch by 1/2 inch.
Deep fry in oil until [...]

Spice Week: Herbs de’Provence

Welcome back to another (slightly later than I would have liked) edition of Spice Week.  In celebration of the Spice Girls reuniting, this week is all about how to use spices in your cooking.
And yes, I realize that herbs de’Provence are herbs and not spices, but bear with me here.  They’re a handy little thing [...]

The Next Iron Chef 5

*** SPOILER ALERT ***  In this post I say who gets kicked off the show.
This week’s episode of the Next Iron Chef was decent episode.  The task was to make a three course meal for 20 people using roughly $2,500 in ingredients (they got 2,000 Euros.)  They were then paired up with a sous chef [...]

The Flu

So I’ve been sidelined with the flu the past two days, hence my quiet over the past few days.  Thinking about food is torture right now, though I can now throw together an entire cocktail party based on the BRAT diet.
I’ll try to catch up later this week.