Ah, pork belly... how can you go wrong with it?! There are so many ways to cook with it, and all - so delicious! Hardly a healthy choice, we can however indulge in it today as we had a 4 mile run outside thanks to the summer weather we are having all this week. It helps to have a strong alcohol with pork belly to help break down the fats. Today I will braise a whole lot of it, then use some for dinner while saving the rest for later uses.
Showing posts with label dinner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dinner. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Cooking With "Black Gold" - Truffles!
First and foremost, Happy 8th of March - International Women's day!
Cheers, ladies!
Cheers, ladies!
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Indian Cuisine Improvisations By Shyam
Whenever somebody asks me "what is Russian food?", I have hard time answering it. It is whatever we cooked at home in Russia. Same goes for Shyam and Indian food. It is only as being an outsider to any country or region, one can fit a whole cuisine of that region/country into few specific dishes and blissfully ignore all the other dishes that can be produced with any number of ingredients from that region/country. One has to go beyond a few specific recipes to truly cook a dish from a different cuisine. One has to understand the local ingredients and methods and then a whole new world of possibilities opens up.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
General Thoughts and Quick Dinner Tonight - Chicken Liver
Efficiency in the kitchen
Sometimes I love spending hours and hours in the kitchen, but often, especially on weeknights after coming home from work, I want to be done with dinner fast. After being in a restaurant kitchen and watching chefs cook, it gave me a new perspective on my own kitchen. It isn't really a secret. But growing up, cooking was just that, and not much thought was given to why things are done a certain way, but rather it was simply doing things the way previous generations of women (my mom, my grandmothers and other female relatives) had done. With new gadgets, better technologies, simply more space in my kitchen (compared to my grandmother's that measures 2 by 2 meters/about 6 by 6 ft!) and just having the financial means to acquire more and better tools, the new name of the game is efficiency.
Sometimes I love spending hours and hours in the kitchen, but often, especially on weeknights after coming home from work, I want to be done with dinner fast. After being in a restaurant kitchen and watching chefs cook, it gave me a new perspective on my own kitchen. It isn't really a secret. But growing up, cooking was just that, and not much thought was given to why things are done a certain way, but rather it was simply doing things the way previous generations of women (my mom, my grandmothers and other female relatives) had done. With new gadgets, better technologies, simply more space in my kitchen (compared to my grandmother's that measures 2 by 2 meters/about 6 by 6 ft!) and just having the financial means to acquire more and better tools, the new name of the game is efficiency.
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