Category Archives: Vegetarian

Karl’s Garlic Dill Pickles

With the kid’s on the Atkins Diet, I decided to make some sugar free dill pickles. A bit of this, a touch of that. A week in the fridge and voilà dill pickles.

Karl’s Garlic Dill Pickles

Karl’s Garlic Dill Pickles

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Karl’s Steamed Bok Choy with Mushroom Sauce

With the kid’s on the Atkins diet I have to make more vegetable dishes and less dishes that use starch. To go with my char siu pork, I decided that steamed bok choy would be a good Chinese addition. This dish has minimal prep work and a quick sauce.

Karl’s Steamed Bok Choy with Mushroom Sauce

Karl’s Steamed Bok Choy with Mushroom Sauce

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Karl’s “Southern” Chinese Green Beans

In this cast the Southern is Southern US. This recipe is from last Sunday’s dinner and I am just now getting around to posting it. I am doing a California Fusion Char Siu Flavored Pork Loin and I wanted a non-traditional vegetable dish to go with it. I decided to adapt a Cook’s Illustrated recipe to my purposes.

Karl’s “Southern” Chinese Green Beans

        Karl’s “Southern” Chinese Green Beans

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Karl’s Harcourt Vert with Dark Soy Sauce

I needed a vegetable to go with my barbecued tri-tip and mushrooms. I wanted the dish to be Asian, but I did not want to have just a third dish covered in Sichuan pepper sauce. I decided on French green beans, Harcourt vert, that are thinner and more tender than regular American green beans.

Karl’s Green Beans with Dark Soy Sauce

Karl’s Green Beans with Dark Soy Sauce

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Karl’s Barbecued Mushrooms with Sichuan Pepper Sauce

I have been cooking lately, but I have been too busy to post write up and post the recipes. This mushroom dish is from Sunday dinner two weeks ago. I did a barbecued chicken with a wet Sichuan sauce a few weeks ago and I thought the sauce would go well with grilled mushrooms.

Karl’s Barbecued Mushrooms with Sichuan Pepper Sauce

Karl’s Barbecued Mushrooms
                    with Sichuan Pepper Sauce

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Karl’s Sichuan Pepper Sauce

I did a barbecued chicken with a wet Sichuan sauce a few weeks ago and I thought it would go well as a Marinade/basting sauce with Sunday’s tri-tip and mushrooms. Continue reading

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Karl’s Kale Saag Paneer 

Most Americans know the Indian restaurant staple palak paneer, spinach with cheese. If you make the same dish and add other green vegetables to the spinach, or replace the spinach entirely, the dish becomes a saag (greens). A saag may be made from almost any green vegetable, today, I am using Lacianto kale.

Karl’s Kale Saag Paneer

Karl’s Kale Saag Paneer

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Karl’s Curried Peach Pasties

When I was making my curried chicken pasties, I had run out of filling before I ran out of dough. What was I going do do with the extra?  I decided to use it to make some fruit hand-pies for dessert.

Karl’s Curried Peach Pasties

Karl’s Curried Peach Pasties

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Raspberries with Aceto Balsamico Tradizionale di Reggio Emilia

I cannot claim this recipe as my own. Miriam brought me some Aceto Balsamico Tradizionale di Reggio Emilia when she came back from Italy. I was under strict instructions never to use this vinegar in a salad dressing. The Acetaria San Giacomo’s website had photos to show off their products and one was of raspberries with vinegar and a light dusting of powdered sugar. This was clearly an acceptable use of “the good stuff.”

Raspberries with Aceto Balsamico Tradizionale di Reggio Emilia

Raspberries with
Aceto Balsamico Tradizionale
di Reggio Emilia

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Karl’s California Fusion Peanut Sauce

I needed a sauce to go with my chicken satay. While I made a peanut sauce for my Vietnamese Summer Rolls, I wanted this one to be more Indonesian. Out went the hoisin sauce and the fish sauce. Palm sugar is a common Indonesian sweetener—and is lower on the glycemic index than white sugar. I also had that fresh pineapple I was planning to grill, so in it went.

Karl’s California Fusion Peanut Sauce

Karl’s California Fusion Peanut Sauce

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