Garam masala (warm spice blend) is a finishing spice in Indian cuisine. This means that you add these spices near the end of the cooking process. If you add them earlier the aromatic elements that are the reason for adding them will cook off and leave your dish flat or worse bitter.
Karl’s Garam Masala
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We have had a lot of trouble with bugs and pests in the garden this year. The basil was beginning to look sad. I salvaged what I could and made pesto to preserve what was left.
Karl’s Pesto
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Whenever I decide to make my own spice blend I do an analysis of the recipes for that blend that others have posted. By comparing ten to twenty different ideas about what goes into a spice blend I get an inspiration about how I should create my own blend. It should be similar, but unique.
Karl’s Taco Seasoning
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Normally I use Kraft’s Fat Free Mayonnaise for most things, because of Jan’s diet restrictions. Jan suggested that with the general theme of my blog, “That Fresher is Better,” I should try my hand at real mayonnaise.
Karl’s Keto Real Mayonnaise
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I decided that I should make a Ketogenic Hoisin sauce to go with my pork lettuce cups. I looked online for a recipe to tweak and was very disappointed in what I found. In my opinion, there are three things which really do not belong in Hoisin sauce: peanut butter, honey, and ketchup.
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Last Christmas Jan made Grand Marnier Balls as giveaways. The recipe she created called for candied orange peel, which is surprisingly expensive. I decided to make my own, to avoid the cost this year. Once I was done, I was left with about two cups of orange infused sugar.
Karl’s Orange Infused Sugar
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Shashlik is really just the Central Asian name for a kabob, something on a skewer. In Kashgar, at least on the street, this is almost always lamb coated in a cumin based spice blend. Lamb is cut into small (3/8 inch) cubes and skewered with bits of lamb fat. The stick is dipped into a tray of the spice blend and then grilled over hot coals. While the kabab is on the grill, the seller uses a fan to boost the heat of the coals and picks up some of the sticks to baste the skewers still on the grill with the rendering lamb fat dripping from them. If you like the crispy crust of grilled lamb you will be mad about these.
Shashlik is usually eaten with naan. For this meal, I am also making a carrot salad, a tomato and cucumber salad, pickled cauliflower, and fruit skewers to go with the bread and lamb.
Karl’s Uyghur Shashlik
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Two weeks ago, Chris asked for Veracruz-style Fish Tacos. He had had these at a restaurant and they claimed that they were just like the ones sold on the beaches of Veracruz, Mexico.
Karl’s Veracruz-style Fish Tacos
I looked on-line and what my search brought up was many recipes for Fish Veracruz (a baked whole fish smothered in a salsa of tomatoes, onions, green olives and capers. This could be a problem. Myr doesn’t like capers, and none of the girls think green olives belong in a tomato sauce.
Filed under Main Dishes, Sauces and Spices, Seafood
This is the sauce to go with Karl’s Vietnamese Summer Rolls.
Karl’s Peanut Dipping Sauce
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Adapted from a recipe by the National Honey Board
Jan was disappointed to find that the Ethiopian idea of dessert was sour cheese or just coffee. (Actually, after all of that good food who has room for “just one little thin mint?”) She decided to make an Ethiopian inspired desert by adding honey and spices to caramel and using it to make a gelato sundae.
Jan’s Sweet Ethiopia Honey Caramel Sauce Sundaes
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