Wasted Continuum

A few months ago, I attempted to make brownies for the first time and they turned out great. Being the way that I am, I thought of different ways to I could improve on it. This logically led me to think, why not add bacon? I have tried chocolate covered bacon before and it was really good. It has everything to do with how the salt in the bacon and the sugar in the chocolate enhances each other’s flavor. After making a batch of bacon brownies over the holidays, I got a lot of requests to share my recipe. Now that things have settled down, I had some time tonight to write it up. Enjoy and let me know what you think. Continue Reading »

Last night, I was so busy reorganizing my workspace that I almost forgot about dinner. It was late and I wanted to make something quick. I decided to make some chicken legs, but a dish with a little character. I wanted something tangy, spicy and sweet all at once. This is what I came up with. The cooking method is adapted from a Jacques Pepin recipe for Poulet Cuisses Maison, which I love. However, this tastes nothing like that. Here is the recipe for my dish. Try it out and let me know what you think here or on twitter.

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Today was another night of our cooking club. The theme for tonight was lime. I baked some lime butter cookies as a bonus. The main dish I made was a seared ginger lime pork tenderloin. I created this recipe just for tonight. It turned out great so I have decided to share it with you.

Photo set on my Flickr

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I finally got around to trying my hand at baking something complex. I did make some mini-financiers au miel earlier this year, but those where kind of simple. Tonight was the third time baking in all the years I’ve been in the kitchen. All three times happened this year. Today made a chocolate and zucchini cake. The recipe is from the aptly named book, Chocolate and Zucchini: Daily Adventures in a Parisian Kitchen, by Clotilde Dusoulier. I bought the book a while back when it was on one of the end of the shelf displays at Border’s.

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I originally wanted to test out a dessert experiement for my mom today, since she’s the big chef of the family. She ended up asking me to cook a full dinner. I ended up preparing a three course meal. It was very last minute. I planned the meal Saturday night after Katelyn’s second birthday. Continue Reading »

This past week was filled with big dinners because of the Chinese New Year. My parents did a lot of cooking for us. So last night I decided to cook a nice dinner for them. I made soupe au pistou. It’s a French vegetable soup with pistou. Pistou is similar to pesto. It was nice a hearty and tasty. I also made a leeks vinaigrette salad. The vinaigrette turned out amazingly well. The tangy red wine vinegar was perfectly balanced by the egg. I definitely would make it again. Both the soup and salad are Anthony Boudain recipes. His book, Les Halles, hasn’t failed me yet.

For the main course I made poulet cuisses maison (chicken thighs). It’s basically seared then cooked on medium heat. A vinegar based sauce is made from the chicken fat afterwards. This is the first main course recipe I tried from Jacques Pepin. I have made a couple vegetable dishes from his recipes before with great success. This dish was no different. I got it from his book The Short-Cut Cook. This was a quick and simple recipe with big payoff.

I uploaded photos of the food on my Flickr account.