a Daniel Howell blog
Posted in Recipes on Jun 21st, 2010
One of the things I will never order at a restaurant is Alfredo anything. Alfredo sauce is so easy to make that I refuse to pay $15 for butter and cream. Another stupidly easy recipe is Shrimp Scampi. If you ask the waiter for this, you’re wasting your money and the chef’s time. The first [...]
Hopefully we’ve diverted our very kind and loquacious benefactor onto the other blog and we can write something worthwhile here. So should we jump right into the steak recipe, or should we talk about shallots first? (TELEPHONE RINGS!) /sigh “Yel-lo?” “Is this Mr. Kitty?” “You called me; mind introducing yourself, please? Phone-etiquette isn’t dead, ya [...]
No steak; chicken. Hopefully, that will keep Interrupting Ghostcrawler at bay. Chicken thighs! Why? Because dark meat is more flavorful than white. I have even convinced my formerly “chicken-breast ONLY” recipe-tester to admit that dark meat is awesome with this recipe. Ingredients: 4 chicken thighs 1/2 cup Marsala wine (use the same stuff you bought [...]
Steak. /looks around nervously You need a pan. /checks the phone, confirms it’s off Cast iron. /takes the battery out of the phone With ridges to get those nice grill marks. /puts the de-batteried phone under the bed /blinks And you want shallots red wine beef broth salt and pepper! /examines the silence, warily So [...]
So yesterday we were getting into what makes a steak a steak before we were bizarrely interrupted. Well let’s get back to bidnezz, shall we? Cast iron, my friends. Not aluminum, not stainless steel, not non-stick DuPont fluoropolymer resins. Cast honkin’ iron is where… (telephone rings!!) …our salvation lies when it comes to cooking steak. [...]
So today we’re going to teach you how to make a steak. Yes, a steak. Steak. As in, beef. See? Making a steak is about more than fire, and while the traditional formula of Fire + Man = Happiness is still true today as it was 10,000 years ago… (TELEPHONE RING!!) … it takes more [...]
I need a 1GB stick of PC2700 DDR 200-pin RAM for a friend’s PowerBook G4. Does anybody have one lying around they don’t need? I’ll trade you for my Chicken Marsala recipe! I like mine over pasta, but you can cook rice or even little roast potatoes with this. Little roast potatoes… mmmm. 4 chicken [...]
The big thing for which I am waiting, I am still waiting. I lost a very, very good friend. Not as in lost-lost, or “I left her at Macy’s by accident” lost, but just lost. I hope she’s going to be OK, I miss her a ton. If you are up north and are experiencing [...]
