Bibimbap
Bibimbap I like it cold and I like in a stone bowl. It’s all about a rice dish that has colorful medley of vegetables, one type of protein or none, and Gochujang (hot pepper paste) sauce. It’s also garnished with an egg on top. It not an…
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Roasted Bone Marrow and bacon onion jam
Bone marrow is one of those expensive appetizers or small plate items on the menu. They are delicious on a toasted baguette and some kind of onion jam. However, you can roast bone marrow at home. Not all butchers will cut the bone marrow lengthwise…
Dinner Rolls and the secrets behind making these soft dinner rolls.
Here is my favorite website to get the recipe for dinner rolls https://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/big-batch-quick-dinner-rolls-recipe. It’s a great recipe I have a few things I’d like to tweak to make outstanding dinner rolls to impress the dinner guest. One thing I stress about making bread is…
Avocado Toast Guacamole style
The best avocado toast to me is guacamole! Super ripen avocados ready to be mashed up and turned into delicious guacamole. It’s simple to make and takes only about 12 minutes to put together. Ingredients Serving size 4 people Guacamole 3 large super ripe avocados…
Hot Tea drinking
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Marshmallows!
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Food Festival Edition: Chicago Gourmet 2019, Lights, Camera, Napkins!
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Braided Bread: 4 and 5 stranded braid
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Salted Chicken with Garlic and Ginger sauce
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Baking and Scaling
Someone has asked me ” Why doesn’t my recipe comes out the same every time?” There are a lot of things to consider when aiming for consistent baking results. When we cook, there’s a lot of forgiveness if we under or over salt something.…