Before I left home for the first time, I sat down with my mother’s recipe box and wrote down my favorite dishes. These were all written to fit on a 3×5 card, written to remind her about how to make the dish. As a result, they are often hard for anyone else to “unpack” the sometimes cryptic instructions. Continue reading
Category Archives: Side Dishes
Karl’s Cabbage Salad with Miso Dressing
I made teriyaki hamburgers and I wanted a vegetable side. It was too late to make pickles, so I decided on a salad. Using what I had on hand I came up with this.
Karl’s Cabbage Salad with Miso Dressing
Filed under Salads, Side Dishes, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian
Karl’s Stir-fry with Bok Choi and Chive Stem
I am making a Chinese roast pork for Sunday. A vegetable stir-fry is a necessary compliment to a meat heavy dish. Going to Lion Market, I finally decided on baby bok choi and to add variety chive stem.
Karl’s Stir-fry with Bok Choi and Chive Stem
Filed under Green Vegetables, Side Dishes, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian
Karl’s Beech and Oyster Mushroom Stir-fry
Eilene does not like mushrooms. I usually make a separate dish with the mushrooms for everybody else. Today, I am making a slow roasted pork shoulder and thought a mushroom stir-fry with beech and oyster mushrooms would be nice.
Karl’s Beech and Oyster Mushroom Stir-fry
Filed under Side Dishes, Stir-fry, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian
Karl’s Sichuan Pepper Pickles
As I was buying the other vegetables for my stir-fries, I had an urge for pickles. For Chinese meals, the number of dishes you serve is a sign of respect. The greater the number of dishes the greater the respect—but also the greater the guanxi debt that person will owe you. I am making roast pork, a vegetable stir fry, and a mushroom dish for Sunday’s dinner.
Karl’s Sichuan Pepper Pickles
Filed under Pickles, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian
Hopi Pinto Beans and Hominy
Jan recently came back from Hopi, and had high praise for Hopi beans and hominy. I decided to do a Hopi/Southwestern Indian meal for last Sunday. In addition, to Hopi beans and hominy, I am making Southwestern Indian chicken and blue corn tortillas.
Hopi Pinto Beans and Hominy
Filed under Beans, Side Dishes, Vegan, Vegetarian
Hopi Blue Tortillas
I am doing a Hopi/Southwestern Indian meal this Sunday. I am making Hopi beans and hominy and a Southwestern Indian chicken. Blue corn tortillas seems a reasonable side dish.
Hopi Blue Tortillas
Filed under Side Dishes, Vegan, Vegetarian
Karl’s Iraqi Tabbouleh
Adapted from a Recipe Lion recipe
I came upon a recipe for Iraqi barbecued chicken and I wanted some Iraqi side dishes to go with it. I found a recipe for Iraqi pickled vegetables and another for Iraqi tabbouleh. Just about every country in the Middle East has a variation of this salad of grain, parsley and mint dressed with lemon and oil. Other additions to the basic elements can be tomatoes, cucumbers, red or green onions, olives, and for the Iraqi version pickled artichoke.
Karl’s Iraqi Tabbouleh
Filed under Salads, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian
Karl’s Torshi, Iraqi Mixed Pickled Vegetables
Adapted from an Arabic Kitchen recipe
I was making Iraqi barbecued chicken and I wanted an Iraqi vegetable side dish. Many Iraqi vegetable dishes include eggplant, which I cannot digest. One recipe I found, that is frequently serve at Iraqi meals, is turshi, mixed pickled vegetables.
Karl’s Torshi, Iraqi Mixed Pickled Vegetables
Filed under Pickles, Side Dishes, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian
Karl’s Japanese Style Potato Salad II
I made meatloaf hamburgers for the Fourth of July and California fusion burgers call out for an international salad. Japanese potato salad has quickly become a favorite of our house. I have been trying to replicate the potato salad of our favorite Japanese restaurant Gombei. Last time I came close, but it was still slightly off.
Karl’s Japanese Style Potato Salad II
Filed under Potatoes, Salads, Side Dishes, Vegetarian
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