36 tacos. This was a riff on Rick Bayless' "Red Chile Pork Tacos" recipe. I had purchased a whole Boston butt and had lopped-off the 5 lbs of it farthest from the chine bone to make sausage. Doing the whole roast with this method would have yielded way too much meat. Marinade 2 pasilla chiles (seed…
About 1 tbsp. One week I got it in my head that I wanted to make baked pork buns. The delicious pork in the filling, char siu, was a recipe from Joshua Weissman. Sadly, the grocery store aisles had no Chinese five spice that the marinade requires. So I went hunting for a homemade recipe for the pow…
Yields 24 cookies. 2 sticks unsalted butter (room temperature) 1/2 cup sugar 2 cup flour 1/4 tsp salt 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips
9 to 12 portions. Online recipes are truly hit and miss: temperatures, times, and quantities often don't seem to work as expected. When recipes have an accompanying video, though, wherein the cook demonstrates the entire process, it's possible to verify that at least the quantities are accurate (un…
For about a decade now I've been making barbecue: the real-deal, low-and-slow, smoked over wood sort of stuff. Every pit master needs a few recipes for sauce and sides. Baked beans is a classic. 1 large onion, fine dice 1 ham steak (1 lb), fine dice 29 oz. tomato sauce 1 c brown sugar 1/2 c molasse…
I love pickles. Sweet, spicy, salty, or sour, I'm a fan of them all. My daughters and wife — not so much. But I have found that my daughters will eat Claussen refrigerated pickles: the brine is more salty and sour, and the flavor is a rounded mélange containing garlic and onion over the usual dill.…