by Joe P | Oct 13, 2012 | cooking, Dipping Sauce, Garlic, How To, recipes, Rice, Stir-fry, Thailand, Vegetables
INGREDIENTS You can use any vegetables you like in this recipe. I shoot for either a nice color combination or, in order to clean out the fridge, I’ll use just what I have on hand. I have written “more or less” on some of the ingredients. This is to allow for...
by Joe P | Oct 10, 2012 | Chicken, cooking, Garlic, How To, recipes, Sauces, Thailand
After a week of undertaking exhaustive research of the poultry industry of Thailand, I have arrived at two conclusions. First, there are a lot of chickens and eggs in Thailand. Second, I would rather cook and eat chicken and eggs than read about them. I had...
by Joe P | Sep 28, 2012 | Chicken, cooking, How To, Politics, recipes, soup
The automobile has always been a symbol of progress, status and prosperity. That is usually the way it is with anything that is rare and expensive. It’s difficult to believe, however, that chickens were once held in a similar lofty esteem—at least as a food...
by Joe P | Aug 26, 2012 | baking, cooking, Garlic, Greek, grilling, How To, pie, Puff Pastry, Spinach
As a child, I hated spinach. My mother tried every tactic of persuasion to get me to eat it—to no avail. Yes, I knew it was good for me—just like every food that seemed disgusting was “good” for me. No, I didn’t want to be like Popeye—who would want to be a...
by Plumstead | Aug 12, 2012 | cooking, How To, meat, recipes, Sauces
Not everyone has a supply of any kind of fresh broth or stock hanging around in his or her refrigerator—not even professional chefs. I simplify many of my recipes for the home chef by recommending either prepared broths or stocks or, preferably, using concentrated...
by Plumstead | Jul 30, 2012 | cooking, grilling, How To, meat
Meat is muscle tissue. This muscle tissue is divided into “groups”. On a cow, each group of muscle tissue yields a particular section or “cut” of meat. A steak is a cut from these sections; either on its own or as the end product of being cut from a section of...
