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October 17th, 2022

Pasta e Fagioli from Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking

An easy and delicious soup. I used lardons for the meat. We were thinking that chicken sausages would be good, saucisse de volaille or merguez de volaille, cut in quarters lenghtwise, then into little... read more >


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The Thrill of the Grill: Techniques, Recipes, & Down-Home Barbecue

By Christopher Schlesinger
William Morrow Cookbooks - 1990

23rd June 2015 (edited: 25th June 2015)

Grilled Lime-Marinated Flank Steak with Chipotle-Honey Sauce : page 141

Delicious steak, delicious sauce.

- Apparently French cows have no flanks, so I used bavettes instead, which are thinner but has a similar texture to my mind. I marinated only about three hours rather than 4-6. On the bbq grill just a few minutes on each side. Very good.

- The sauce was scrumptious,. I was out of cilantro, and so were the shops, so skipped this. Used Dijon mustard rather than brown. Measured slightly short on the honey. I could eat this by the spoonful.

The authors suggest serving this with Black Bean Salad and Corn Bread Salad with Lime Juice and Cilantro. Both of these were good, but were too similar to make a good pair of sides. I just mixed the leftovers together

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The ancho chiles don't exactly taste of Indonesia to me, but the sauce was delicious over boneless pork chops, flattened and quickly grilled. Definitely a do-again.

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4th August 2018

Grilled Pork Skewers with Green Mango : page 158

This was really tasty. I made half recipe of a recipe for four; we thought it could have served three. Two of us managed to eat it all, but we were stuffed.

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15th June 2017

Sweet and Hot Apricot Condiment : page 152

We didn't like this much at all. Disappointing, since most of the condiment things in this book (salsa, chutneys, etc.) have been outstanding.

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Pretty good. I made a halfish recipe. Use lardons instead of bacon. Unfortunately somewhat overcooked the sweet potato while boiling, so the dish was dangerously close to smashed sweet potatoes. Still very tasty. Especially with the sauce from Grilled Pork Loin with Indonesian Chile-Coconut Sauce.

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15th June 2017

Sweet Potato Salad : page 302

A really tasty salad.
- I used 1tbl tomato paste in place of 3tbl ketchup.
- The recipe calls for 3/4cup olive oil and 1/4cup cider vinegar (plus other stuff), which seemed to me way too much liquid. I started with 1/3cup olive oil and a good slog of vinegar. In the end that seemed a bit dry, so I added a bit ore of each, probably 1/2cup olive oil in all.
A bit of tweaking, but a nice salad, a bit different from your usual bbq fare.

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