I love using familiar ingredients in unfamiliar ways. All of the ingredients in this dish are familiar to the FOODalogue kitchen but they’ve never appeared together this way before. The idea came to me as I looked at the lone plantain (soon to turn ripe) in my vegetable bowl. Then I remembered the leftover rotisserie chicken in the fridge. The wheels started turning, the cabinet doors were flung open and I started pulling out the rest of the ingredients. Continue Reading
This is another one of those dishes that started without a plan. A package of chicken thighs and no clue. But, after a little kitchen wizardry, the end result was worthy of a post.
Although my last post included a date sauce, I’m really not much of a sauce person. That said, I think what makes this dish especially interesting is the preparation of the sauce. Hint: Another title for this post could have been: “How to hide your vegetables in plain sight.” Continue Reading
I really love roasted turkey. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday meal and somewhere around midyear between the last Thanksgiving and the next, I start to crave a taste of the big bird. Fortunately, turkey parts are readily available in the supermarket.
Perhaps when you think of turkey, you simultaneously think of the-belly-busting meal we associate with Thanksgiving, but it doesn’t have to be that way if you don’t fill your plate with 12 side dishes!
This dinner which I prepared for myself was lovely…tasty and aromatically scented by the preparation and the finishing sauce.
Sadly, the only thing many people know about Colombia besides the fact that it’s in South America is its long history with drug-trafficking cartels. However, even with that blemish, Colombia has managed to contribute much to the arts and our popular culture today. Let me introduce you to a few notable Colombians.
Have you seen the new TV show “Modern Family”? Sofia Vergarra is from Colombia. So is TV-movie star John Leguizamo. The concept and original production of “Ugly Betty” originated in Colombia. Other famous Colombians include Nina Garcia, fashion director of “Elle” and “Marie Claire” and “Project Runway” judge. Another is Rodrigo Garciá Barca, one of the directors of “The Sopranos” and “Six Feet Under” among other hit shows. On the music scene, Shakira, Juanes, and Carlos Vives have consistently been on the top of charts. There have been sports figures and beauty queens too. And who doesn’t know the paintings and ‘fat’ sculptures of Fernando Botero and the work of Nobel Prize winner, Gabriel Garcíá Marquez?
But, come, let’s talk about food…
I love Thanksgiving. The flavor palette of this holiday meal has me salivating for days before — and digesting/working it off for days after. But what if you could have all of the flavors of Thanksgiving and none of the trappings? And by ‘trappings’, I mean calories.
Imagine you had a shopping list of turkey, pumpkin, sweet potato, apples, raisins…wouldn’t you start thinking “Thanksgiving”?
The guests ‘may’ be sober, but the bird is definitely juiced! It arrives with a few cups of tequila and Grand Marnier in its belly.
This is an unconventional method for making sausage, but it resulted in a very tasty recipe.
Question: What makes a sausage? Is it the meat? the seasoning? the forcing? the casing? the shape? the cooking method? Or, perhaps, just because the cook says it’s sausage?
Although I’ve never made sausage, the other day I wanted to make sausage. I didn’t have a meat grinder or sausage casings. I didn’t even have a fatty protein. But that didn’t stop me. Continue Reading
Back Story: For Christmas Day dinner, my son wanted a fried turkey and went out and purchased the fryer. But we had a rain-out. Fast thinking and successful surgery to de-bone the carcass to get it cooked quickly followed and we ate a very delicious (though not conventional) roast turkey.
Corn, avocado, cheddar cheese, black olives, capers, scallions dressed with fresh tomato salsa and extra squeezes of lemon.
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