22 December 2015
Pressure Cooker Pot Roast
As far as I can tell, one of this year’s most popular gadgets was the Instant Pot, an electronic pressure cooker that doubles (triples, etc) as a slow cooker, (...)
14 April 2015
Pressure Cooker Corned Beef and Cabbage
So, I’m apparently way behind on my blog posts, since I’m sharing a corned beef recipe a month after St. Patrick’s Day! Truth be told, I’ve been so busy (...)
24 January 2012
Liver and Caramelized Onions
Liver and onions. You really can’t say the former without saying the latter, at least here in the United States. Surprisingly, I had a hard time finding anyone (...)
22 October 2013
Roasted whole cauliflower gobhi musallam
Gobhi Musallam is a roasted cauliflower dish from the Uttar Pradesh region of Northern India. While the origin of the dish itself is hard to trace, the origin (...)
14 October 2014
Pressure Cooker Short Ribs
I’m relatively new to the whole pressure cooking scene. We didn’t use them in the restaurants where I first learned to cook, and I’ve frankly been a little (...)
25 August 2015
Chicken Fried Steak
Phew! My summer book release tour is almost over, just one last signing in Destin FL on Thursday with Jennifer Robins, author of Down South Paleo. It’s hard to (...)
19 May 2011
Roasted Pork Shoulder
While in Germany last year, I came across a Bavarian dish called “Schweinshaxe” (pork knuckle), which is a ham hock that is boiled and roasted to a crisp. I (...)
23 April 2013
Barbecue Boneless Beef Short Ribs
While spending a few days in Austin last month, I basically dove head-first into Texas barbecue: the pickles, the vinegar-based cole slaw, and man, the (...)
31 January 2017
Chicken Marengo
In June of 1800, Napoleon Bonaparte led the French army to a decisive victory against the Austrian army in Marengo (present-day Italy), an important battle (...)
12 February 2011
Chicken Livers
image courtesy of Nourishing our Children While planning a yakitori night for sometime in the future I ran across this picture. Yikes!
10 January 2012
Perfect Eye of Round Roast
NOTE: An updated version of this recipe appears in my cookbook, The Ancestral Table. Eye of round is a pretty intimidating piece of beef. It’s an extremely (...)
2 April 2013
Italian sausage with peppers and onions
With our extended winter this year (spring is finally springing in our neck of the woods this week!), I found myself craving comfort foods to help me get over (...)
3 November 2015
Mulligatawny Soup
Local friends: I’ll be having a talk, cooking demo, and book signing in a couple weeks – for more info, see the bottom of this post. This little soup has made (...)
7 October 2014
Oven roasted pernil puerto rican pork shoulder
Lately I’ve been in the mood to catch up on all of the recipes that didn’t quite make it into The Ancestral Table. Like last week’s Chicken Tikka Masala, I had (...)
8 January 2013
Attukal paya lamb’s feet soup
Attukal Paya (sometimes spelled as Aattukaal Paya or just Paya) is a hearty soup made with lamb, sheep, or goat feet served in South India. What fascinates me (...)
17 April 2012
Roasted pork sirloin
I have a confession to make: it’s not often that I invent a recipe out of thin air. Usually I tend to re-create tried-and-true traditional dishes using a wide (...)
28 January 2014
Santa Maria Tri-Tip Steak
Santa Maria Tri-Tip Steak is a specialty of Santa Maria, California, which lies about 100 miles northwest of Los Angeles. Tri-tip is taken from the bottom (...)
28 October 2014
Aloo gobi matar - indian vegetarian curry with potatoes, cauliflower, and peas
Earlier this year I wrote a guest article for Paleo Magazine, emphasizing the importance of eating vegetables. Americans tend to give vegetables a lower (...)
31 December 2013
Smoked Center Cut Pork Chops
Today’s recipe is a combination of two recent events in our house. First, I recently bought a remote grill thermometer, and I was itching to try it out. The (...)
13 October 2015
Beef Stroganoff
Beef Stroganoff is a dish of Russian origin, most likely named after the Stroganov family, whose last member died in 1923. Members of the Stroganov family were (...)
16 September 2014
Nakkikastike Finnish hot dogs in sauce
So, I don’t really know anything about this recipe. I just happened to stumble upon it when looking at funny Finnish recipes. If there are any kind Finns who (...)
16 December 2014
Seasoned london broil with flank steak
Flank Steak is a well-muscled cut taken from the cow’s abdomen. The cut is commonly referred to as London Broil, which actually refers to a common preparation (...)
30 September 2014
Chicken Tikka Masala
Although I consider Butter Chicken to be the ultimate Indian chicken curry (I saved that recipe for my cookbook), Chicken Tikka Masala takes a close second. In (...)
13 November 2012
Simple cornish hen recipe
The Cornish hen, often referred to as a Cornish game hen or Rock Cornish hen, is a hybrid chicken first developed in the United States in the 1950s. Besides (...)
19 May 2015
Chicken Korma
In my new office here in Pensacola Florida, we have an interesting combination of Navy families. Two of my co-workers have spouses they met while stationed in (...)
