I didn't do anything very fancy with this. I just boiled the corned beef, cooked the carrots and potatoes separately, and added the ca...

I made pot roast in the crockpot again. It took maybe ten minutes of prep work. I browned a small chunk of beef, then put it in the crockpot...

Lawson made these grilled, Thai basil-wrapped meatballs last week. The chile sauce was very sweet -- tasted just like the Maggi sweet chile ...

Here's my own attempt at recreating Santos' red chile beef plate. Like you , I boiled the beef first, then cut it up and browned it ...

I did try to replicate Santos' Red Chile Plate this week. I used the Gabilondo recipe, modified of course, and it was delicious. Santos...

Recently I made pho. It was quite tasty, though far from perfect, and I had to serve it with cilantro and mint instead of Thai basil, as it...

I love cold leftovers. So for lunch I ate cold collard greens and a sandwich made of a homemade wheat roll, cold flank steak, Dijon mustard,...

I loved steak as a kid. Pink, pink steak cut into tiny cubes. And chocolate mousse for dessert. No restaurant meal since has made such an im...

This was the easiest soup. I love Mai Pham's Pleasures of the Vietnamese Table , which I bought for Lawson a few years ago. Traditionall...

I've been on vacation eating other people's food. This past weekend I was up in the mountains in North Carolina playing in the snow ...

A few weeks ago I made quesadillas filled with some odds and ends we needed to use up -- cilantro, arugula, roasted pork, monterey jack chee...

I did some good things in the kitchen yesterday. I made a batch of pear chutney. I also browned a small, tough beef round steak along with c...

This is pretty close to Julia Child's beer and onion pot roast recipe from Volume 1 of Mastering . I browned a big piece of lean, toug...

Because I was a vegetarian for so many years, chili is to me a bean-based dish, with meat only an incidental ingredient. I know this is bla...

Lest everyone think I eat only bacon-filled soups and homemade cookies, here is my post-gym snack: plain yogurt with almonds, dates, flax se...

I've been working on a term paper, so I haven't been cooking for the last five days or so (or doing much of anything besides writing...

On Sunday I made my first pot roast. I browned the meat, then sauteed some small whole onions and chopped carrots, then deglazed the pan wit...