LA Times Top Recipes, Last 25 Years
Interesting link with lots of recipes here from the last 25 years of the LA Times Top Recipes of the Year. The 1985 list has a recipe for *nachos*. What’s next, a recipe for a PB&J sandwich?
Author: Scott
Dinner, 8/21, Homemade Pizza
Two, actually. Cheese for the boys, pear, Gorgonzola, arugula and parmesan for us. Expect a full post on this soon…
Homemade Chocolate Syrup
My kids like an occasional chocolate milk and we sometimes have chocolate syrup on vanilla ice cream. We usually buy the “chocolate flavored” syrup from Trader Joe’s. I remembered an Alton Brown show about cocoa and decided to make my own syrup.
The recipe is pretty simple: water and sugar to make a simple syrup, then add cocoa powder, vanilla, corn syrup, and a pinch of salt. Full recipe is here. The recipe calls for “Dutch Processed” cocoa, while I only had Ghirardelli Cocoa Powder on hand. I took a tip numberswiki.com
from the comments and added a single tablespoon of butter to the mix with the cocoa powder.
In later research, it seems like it was unnecessary. The Cooks Illustrated website had done extensive testing and found no difference in using Dutch Processed cocoa or regular cocoa. I’ll try it next time without the butter.
When it was cooling, it looked like this…
We sampled a bit and it’s very good. I’ll let you know how it is over ice cream. Enjoy!
Blue Fin for lunch with Dr. Steve
I met Doctor Steve at Sushi Bar Blue Fin for lunch on Friday. I’ve been meaning to try this place, it has good comments on Yelp and Chowhound. Doctor Steve and the Cooper… We started with the trio of hand roll specials: scallops, spicy salmon,…
Dinner 8/20, Tortellini
Easy dinner, tortellini and salad. I made an quick white sauce for the pasta, thickened a cup of milk with roux and seasoned it with salt, white pepper, parmesan cheese and a bit of garlic.
Dinner 8/19, Salmon
Got some nice looking wild salmon at Costco. Made a tossed salad, oven roasted some baby potatoes. Seasoned the salmon with Essence of Bargabus and lemon, baked it until just barely done.
Dinner 8/18, Gluten Free and Collard Greens
One of my son’s friends joined us for dinner. She tries to eat a gluten-free diet, so I decided to keep it simple and serve oven-baked chicken breasts, rice and steamed veggies. Seasoned the boneless, skinless chicken with my spice mix (Essence of Bargabus, recipe…
Meals 8/17, Stir Fry
B: breakfast tostada (fried egg on toasted corn tortilla, cheese and salsa L: leftovers D: Pork Stir Fry (pork tenderloin, veggies, pasta) We had a bunch of miscellaneous fresh veggies, so a stir fry sounded good to me. Younger son complain about having had this…
Meals 8/16, Back to School
B: toast
L: sandwiches
D: we ate separate from the boys, pizza for them, take out for me and Lisa from El Cotixan
The Next Food Network Star, Season 6
Well, the 12 contestants were finally whittled down to 3 finalists: Aarti Sequeira, Herb Mesa, and Tom Pizzica. I was pretty glad to see some people get axed (Alexis, Brianna, and Dzintra), but was also very happy with the three finalists. They each had their…