Back in the mother country, I used to make this recipe with rabbit. My grandfather was a shootin’ kind of a guy and, apart from the occasional chunk of buckshot, I learned to love rabbit at an early age. When I was serving time in graduate school, there was a local source of fresh rabbit….
Archives for December 2017
Quinoa Faux Doritos: Flawed Recipe
Making these Dorito copycats has been on my radar for some time, but some of the ingredients were really difficult to find. But using copycat-related comparisons, if the flavor of Doritos is a lion, these chips are a tiger. But if the crunch, mouth-feel and snap of Doritos are a kitten, these chips are a…
Braised Japanese Pork Belly (Buta no Kakuni) Rendang
Here’s a fusion of two dishes from my two favorite ethnic cuisines: Japanese and Indonesian. It takes the best of Japan’s buta-no-kakuni (braised pork belly) and Indonesian rendang. The result was not quite what I expected, but it was still really good. Buta-no-kakuni is cubed porkbelly slow-braised in soy-sauce and sake, while a rendang is…