With Thanksgiving around the corner, this may be the weekend you do all of your grocery shopping for the holiday. If you’re making a more traditional meal, you may want to try this alternative to traditional cranberry sauce. By looking on this site, odds are you’re already thinking the same way, and I’d bet that…
Archives for November 2017
Beef Brisket Braised in Vietnamese Sate Sauce
For my wife’s birthday some weeks back, we went to a small, well-respected restaurant called Ngon Bistro. The chef presents a wide variety of modern French-Vietnamese dishes, which are to die for. I ordered beef brisket braised in a Vietnamese sate sauce and served over stone-ground grits. It was by far the best meal I’ve…
Christmas in July – Easter in November
To hell with pot roast – four words that I never imagined uttering in that order. I made pot roast and was going to blog about it, but – no more than 30 minutes ago – I had my hands plunged into what was left of my lemon basil plants in order to save seeds…