My family likes my cauliflower au gratin. I try to switch things up by using a different cheeses. This time it is baby Swiss cheese rather than emmentaler.
Karl’s Cauliflower Swiss Au Gratin
with Crispy Bacon
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Karl’s Cauliflower Swiss Au Gratin with Crispy Bacon
Filed under Side Dishes, Vegetables
Karl’s Chervil Green Beans with Mandarin Orange
Jan wanted a simple dinner of brats and potatoes. Eilene wanted more vegetables. I tried to please them both.
Karl’s Chervil Green Beans with Mandarin Orange
Filed under Side Dishes, Vegan, Vegetables
Jan’s Orange Almond Flax Bread Pudding
Jan likes flax bread, but because of her oral surgery she did not eat the loaf that I bought her last week at the Farmer’s Market. The loaf is now stale. It is either throw it away and waste the bread or do what cooks have been doing with stale bread for centuries, bread pudding.
Jan’s Orange Almond Flax Bread Pudding
Filed under bread, Breakfast, Desserts & Treats, Treats
Karl’s Rotkohl II
I want to make Charlie B’s tomorrow. This is a leftover breakfast, but to make it you kind of have to have the leftovers. I already had the potatoes, but I needed the sausage. That meant bratwurst for dinner tonight.
Karl’s Rotkohl II
Filed under California Fusion, German, Other Vegetables, Side Dishes, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian
Karl’s Rosemary Roasted Marble Potatoes and Whole Garlic
I wanted some potatoes to go with my rosemary roasted chicken. When I was at the store I saw these tiny marble-sized potatoes. They were so cute I had to have them. They were also the same size as the pre-peeled Chinese garlic that I buy and it just seemed logical to mix them together.
Karl’s Rosemary Roasted Marble Potatoes and Whole Garlic
Filed under California Fusion, Potatoes, Side Dishes, Starches
Karl’s Birthday/Chinese New Year’s Feast
My birthday falls in the middle of the week this year, so we have moved the party to this weekend. I like to have barbequed lamb, but the “spare the air” alerts have been almost constant this winter. Jan pointed out that next Friday is Chinese New Year and that we could use that as the theme.
Note: This post ties together my last nine posts. Each post covers one of the dishes I selected to make for my birthday/Chinese New Year’s dinner. In this post I try to explain my thinking in selecting each dish for this feast.
Filed under Main Dishes, Side Dishes
Karl’s Cold Sichuan Noodles, original recipe
Noodles are a symbol of longevity in Chinese tradition. A usual recipe for Chinese New Year would be to serve these in a Longevity Noodle Soup. Traditionally, you slurp these noodles whole without breaking them, so that you do not cut your longevity short. For my birthday/New Year’s feast I decided to go a different route.
Karl’s Cold Sichuan Noodles
original recipe
Filed under Side Dishes, Starches
Mimi’s Confetti Rice
No Chinese meal is complete without some rice. You can eat until you are bursting, but if you have not eaten at least one bite of rice, then all you have had is a “snack.” To leave rice out of a New Year’s meal would be very inauspicious.
Mimi’s Confetti Rice
Filed under Side Dishes, Starches
Karl’s California International Pickles
Two Sundays ago, I bought some Persian cucumbers for a dinner that did not happen. I did not want them to spoil. There were too many of them just to eat on my own, so I decided to make pickles with them.
Karl’s California International Pickles
Filed under Pickles, Side Dishes, Vegan, Vegetarian MD
Karl’s Japanese Quick Pickled Carrots
I made some shredded pickled carrots for Jan, while her mouth was healing. I did not think they were anything special, but she really liked them. Today, I was at the Japanese store and saw some nice carrots. I decided that I would make some more for my Japanese dinner tonight.
Karl’s Japanese Quick Pickled Carrots
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