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What's For Dinner? v15.48 - Tarragon season is coming up - how do you use...
Tl;dr version — this diary contains veggie and non-veggie tarragon recipes and ideas, as follows:The way Mr pixxer and I first discovered tarragon — in Bearnaise sauceTwo completely different chicken...
View ArticleWhat's For Dinner? v15.49 Summertime Dips & Spreads
We just got back from San Cristobal, NM for youngest daughter’s wedding! It was grand seeing the family and everything was beautiful and starry and cool!I thought this week we all could get a start on...
View ArticleWhat's For Dinner? v15.50 Too Busy to Cook!
Well, hi there!Been a while, and there’s a storm complete with thunder closing in on my wee hamlet, so this is going to be short and sweet.When I’m busy, I do everything I need to do in one day- and as...
View ArticleWhat's For Dinner? v15.51 - Index of Europe, Mexico, Latin America, and the...
Dividing recipes up by region makes it clear what we aren’t writing about: not much from Africa, Latin America is represented by one lonely recipe from Colombia, and there’s nothing at all from the...
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What's For Dinner? v15.52: Has the pandemic changed your cooking?
Last month, Laura Clawson put up a diary: What pandemic-inspired changes to your life aren’t going away even if or when COVID-19 does? I found the comments really interesting, and I could relate to a...
View ArticleWhat's For Dinner? v16.01 - Master Index 2014 - 2021
Wow, it’s really finished! You may want to bookmark this diary, or you can find all the index chapters by searching for the #wfdindex tag.Type of Dish / Main...
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What's For Dinner? 16.02 Beef Tips
Let’s talk about tips. Beef tips, to be exact. Nowadays, when people think of beef tips, they think of sirloin tip. But that wasn’t always the case. Beef tips refer to the extra bits of meat that were...
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What's for Dinner? v16.03: Cacio e Pepe — done right
Tonight we have a treat espéciale— a pasta dish, the simple-to-delicious ratio of which will have you questioning everything that you’ve been doing with your life. Although it has a reputation for...
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What's For Dinner? v16.04 - Broccoli
Ninkasi23 posted this in a comment last week, which gave me the idea to write about broccoli.Roasted Broccoli Salad with Fetavia Yummy BeetSalad1 head (bunch) broccoli, florets only, very finely...
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What's For Dinner? v16.05 - It's tomato time! Clafoutis, Tomato Tart,...
Summer officially starts at the pixxer household when the dense, richly-flavored, dry-farmed early girl tomatoes arrive at our farmers’ markets. Dry-farming is possible in California b/c, as anyone who...
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What’s For Dinner: 16.06 Tamales
Tamales are delicious and versatile. They’re naturally gluten-free, easily adaptable to vegetarian/vegan diets, and great for meal prep or feeding a crowd. Assembling them can seem intimidating, but...
View ArticleWhat's For Dinner? v16.07 A Food Story
When I was 20 I lived in the upper flat of an old Victorian House in Dallas, TX. My downstairs neighbor was a clothing designer, Carole...where are you, Carole?Carole wanted to be a better cook so she...
View ArticleWhat's for Dinner? v16.08: Meal Planning at Our House
Good evening and welcome to WFD! Tonight I wanted to dive into something I think the pandemic brought back into importance: Meal planning and pantry cooking! Planning meals and shopping quickly took on...
View ArticleWhat's For Dinner? v16.09 - Marinades for Steak
I cooked the Saloon Steak just a couple weeks ago, but I wasn’t planning to write about it and I didn’t think to take a picture. Then it got to be Friday and I hadn’t worked on what I did plan to write...
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What's For Dinner? v. 16.10. Ask Sam-I-Am
This might seem like a silly question, but…DO you like green eggs and ham?This has tickled my fancy since I encountered a medieval recipe titled “Brouet Vert d’Oeufs et de Fromage” (green stew of eggs...
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What's For Dinner? v16.11 - Congee
Congee is a staple of simple home cooking all over Asia. From Wiki:Congee or conjee (/ˈkɒndʒiː/KON-jee) is a type of riceporridge or gruel eaten in Asian countries. When eaten as plain rice congee, it...
View ArticleWhats-For-Dinner-16.12-The Teriyaki Variations
I’m a recipe guy. I almost always follow a recipe when cooking. So it’s a bit ironic that for my first WFD diary, I’m going with something that I’ve never had a recipe for—teriyaki. I have to begin by...
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What’s For Dinner? v.16.13: Kombucha
Beverages are a part of dinner, right? Right! Tonight, I’ll try to demystify the fizzy, funky, probiotic-rich fermented sweet tea called kombucha. I first tasted kombucha a couple of years ago at a...
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What's For Dinner? v16.14 - German Potato Salad
Somewhere near you there’s probably a German restaurant or beer garden celebrating Oktoberfest, which Americans always think occurs in October. The big festival in Munich was cancelled this year...
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What's For Dinner 16x15: 40 Cloves of Garlic
Chicken 40 Cloves is a provincial French dish which is basically some browned chicken parts braised in a liquid that has 40 cloves of garlic in it. The liquid is then reduced and served over the...
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