In past St. Patrick’s days, I would make quick Guinness beer bread. This year my wife bought me a Fourneau Bread Oven for my birthday, as a result, she gets the recipe updates, not me. She forwarded this one for St. Patrick’s Day for our Sunday dinner with the family. I, kind of, followed their recipe.
Karl’s Dubliner Guinness Bread
Filed under bread, Side Dishes, Vegetarian
I am making a Goan Dinner this Sunday. For those of my diners that are avoiding simple carbs, like rice, I wanted to provide a more complex carbohydrate option. I looked at several recipes, but many of them seemed more generally Indian, rather than Goan. I freely adapted from one of the Goan recipes to create my own.
Karl’s Goan Urad Dal
Filed under Beans, Side Dishes, Starches, Vegan, Vegetarian
I am making a Goan Dinner this Sunday. I am not overly fond of cauliflower, but I have some diners who are on-again/off-again non-starch-eaters. I needed a dish to fill them up, if this was an off day. I decided a Goan cauliflower dish was what I needed. In the rest of India ghee—clarified butter—is the cooking fat of choice. In Goa they prefer to use coconut oil.
Karl’s Goan Cauliflower and Spinach
Filed under Green Vegetables, Side Dishes, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian
If no one has given me a challenge for a Sunday meal, I am left to find one for myself. I keep track of everyone who has “liked” one of my dishes and—when I have time—I run through their sites looking for inspiration and ideas. One such site is Linda Creation, which introduced me to Goan cuisine.
Karl’s Goan Jeera Rice
Filed under Rice, Side Dishes, Starches, Vegan, Vegetarian
I had decided to make a chicken soup for a weekday dinner. I have gotten bored with my usual chicken noodle soup, so I wanted to do something different. Looking at my overall list of Country Views, I noticed that no one has ever visited my blog from Paraguay. I though what kind of soup would they make?
Karl’s Paraguayan Bori-Bori de Pollo Soup
Chicken and Dumpling Soup
Filed under Chicken, Main Dishes, Poultry, Soups, Vegetarian
Adapted from a Fine Cooking recipe
My neighbor lemon bombed me again (~60 lemons), with a hint that he was looking forward to some more of my lemon curd. When I had processed the fruit I had 14+ cups of juice and zest. If I turned all of this into lemon curd it would get very expensive—19 cups of sugar, 15 sticks of butter and almost 5 dozen eggs, as well as all of the jars to put it in.
Karl’s Ginger Lemon Curd
Filed under Breakfast, Treats, Vegetarian
I had boiled a bunch of eggs for when Jan was hosting the Ethno Breakfast and there were eight eggs left over. I was planning to make deviled eggs, for Jan’s visiting friends. However, the shells were not cooperative. What do you do when your eggs—instead of being smooth and pretty—come out with big chunks missing. Egg salad was the obvious choice, one of Jan’s friends, Pat, suggested using lettuce wraps.
Karl’s Egg Salad Lettuce Wraps
Filed under Breakfast, Salads, Side Dishes, Vegetarian
Several weeks ago, I make a roasted chicken using some pear jam that my wife had been given. This was not your standard jelly or thick jam, but a clear jelly mixed with translucent pieces of fruit. I thought that some people might need a substitute for this ingredient in my recipe, so I posted a quick substitute that I had not actually tried to make. I had thought, how hard would it be to make this?
Karl’s Bartlett Pear Butter
Filed under Breakfast, Sauces and Spices, Treats, Vegan, Vegetarian
My wife and I generally do not celebrate Valentine’s Day. Our first date was on February second, and that is the day we mark as ours—at the time, groundhogs were the furthest thing from our minds. This year, however, Jan took a fancy to a deli dinner with heart shaped crackers. Anything for my wife.
Karl’s Rosemary Valentine Crackers
with Brie and Fig Jam
Filed under bread, California Fusion, Side Dishes, Vegetarian
I have been craving oxtails recently. You may wonder what does “oxtail” have to do with “mushroom” soup. It all comes down to my wife’s, Jan’s, gallbladder—or rather the lack of the same.
Karl’s Five Mushroom Soup
Filed under California Fusion, Side Dishes, Soups, Vegan, Vegetarian
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