I wanted something quick and easy for a weekday dinner. I have been experimenting with dry frying skin-on salmon fillets. A simple salad and a quick couscous dish completed the meal.
Karl’s Dry Fried Salmon
Category Archives: Main Dishes
Karl’s Beef Bone Broth
Myr has been sick and her doctor has put her on a “gut calming” diet. Bone broth is supposed to be good for what ails her. I have never made bone broth—it always seemed like too much work—actually most of the time is spent watching the pot bubble.
Karl’s Beef Bone Broth
Karl’s Weekday Quick Beef Chili
While I like slow cooked chili with tender chunks of beef, I sometimes just want a quick meal for a weekday. While I have been known to simply use a brand name chili, sometimes I like to go just a step further. This may take a few more minutes than simply opening a can, but the flavor is worth the effort.
Karl’s Weekday Quick Beef Chili
Filed under Beans, Beef, Main Dishes
Karl’s Cellophane Noodle Salad with Shrimp
The NYTimes sends me emails with recipes several time a week. A recent email was all about cold noodle dishes. As I read through them I got a hankering for cold noodles, but none of their dishes really suited me. I borrowed a few ideas from their cellophane noodle salad, but mine is based more on my Vietnamese summer rolls.
Karl’s Cellophane Noodle Salad with Shrimp
Filed under California Fusion, Main Dishes, Salads, Seafood, Shrimp, Vegetables, Vegetarian
Karl’s Sub-Saharan African Chicken Stew
The best known Sub-Saharan chicken stew, at least in America, is Ethiopian doro wot, This is a dish with a long ingredients list—complicated by many of them being hidden inside several spice blends. There are, however, many other Sub-Saharan countries, everyone of which has their own version of chicken stew.
Karl’s Sub-Saharan African Chicken Stew
Filed under Chicken, Main Dishes, Poultry
Karl’s Apple Wood Smoked Irish Whiskey Chicken Wings and Legs
Jan asked me last week why I never make chicken wings. As is usually the case, at some point in the past she told me that she did not like them. As is also the case, she completely denies ever having said that or that she did not want them that day. Eilene prefers legs to wings, so I threw in some of those as well.
Karl’s Apple Wood Smoked
Irish Whiskey Chicken Wings and Legs
Filed under California Fusion, Chicken, Main Dishes, Poultry, Sauces and Spices
Karl’s Chinese Poached Chicken Salad
Since I have been writing this blog, I have felt pushed to constantly upgrade my skills and recipes—new, different, better. I read Cook’s Illustrated and I get e-newsletters from NYTimes and Serious Eats—to the point that my inbox is full of posts that I do not have the time to read. I mine these posts—not so much for recipes—but as a source of new ideas and techniques.
Karl’s Chinese Poached Chicken Salad
Filed under California Fusion, Chicken, Main Dishes, Poultry, Salads, Sauces and Spices, Vegetables
Karl’s Braised Lamb Shanks with Middle Eastern Flavors
It it Father’s Day, so I get to pick the menu. Being a Lueck I will, of course, pick lamb. I have been craving lamb shanks lately.
Karl’s Braised Lamb Shanks
with Middle Eastern Flavors
Filed under California Fusion, Lamb, Main Dishes, Sauces and Spices
Karl’s Tapas: Caballa Frita Rellena (Fried Stuffed Mackerel)
Adapted from Food and Wine recipe
I am making a Spanish tapas dinner for this Sunday. There is a whole selection of fish tapas, many of which involve whole fried small fish. I had wanted to have fried anchovies or sardines, but El Niño had caused a collapse in the local fish supply.
Karl’s Tapas
Caballa Frita Rellena
Fried Stuffed Mackerel
Filed under Fish, Main Dishes, Seafood
Karl’s Tapas: Tomates Rellenos de Gambas y Jamón Serrano (Tomatoes Stuffed with Shrimp and Serano Ham)
I am making a Spanish tapas dinner for this Sunday. For many of the tapas I was making I at least tried to follow the recipes I was using. For this one, however, I decided that I did not like what I saw at all. Instead, I had ingredients that I had bought for other tapas and though, “Hey, this would go with that.” I am sure that somewhere in Spain they make something similar to this tapas, but I could not find it on-line.
Karl’s Tapas
Tomates Rellenos de Gambas y Jamón Serrano
Tomatoes Stuffed with Shrimp and Serano Ham
Filed under Seafood, Shrimp, Side Dishes
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