Slow Roast Short Ribs with Red Wine A Rich, Flavorful, Satisfying Dinner Grass fed beef short ribs are among the most flavorful cuts of beef. They contain quite a bit of bone and collagen, which means getting the most out of them requires long, slow cooking. This preparation intensifies flavors. In the course of cooking...
Super Easy Oven Baked Baby Back Ribs Recipes Don’t Get Much Simpler There are two basic types of easy recipes. There are some, like hamburger rice or a simple pork shoulder steak, that come together fast but require more or less continuous attention during cooking. Then there are others that cook long and slow. These...
Pastured Chicken Thighs with Smoked Paprika Cream Sauce A Bold, Smooth Sauce is a Perfect Match for Flavorful Chicken Chicken thighs are one of my favorite cuts. They have a more intense flavor than chicken breast, and they are less prone to drying out. Because pastured chickens spend time pecking around in the grass, pastured...
Stir Fry with Pork Meatballs, Ramen Noodles, and Chili Oil Smoky, Savory, Spicy, and Complex First I must admit that this dish is my wife Alanna’s creation. I should also acknowledge that it’s a bit more complicated than most of the recipes I’ve been posting recently. But this is mostly because it has a longer...
Roast Butterflied Leg of Grass Fed Lamb A Classic Preparation for a Smaller Leg of Lamb Though I have grass fed in the title, this recipe should work fine with any lamb. But grass fed lambs are generally smaller than their grain fed counterparts. This translates to smaller cuts, which can be difficult to adapt...
Pork Shoulder Steak with Honey-Mustard Pan Sauce I Promise You Won’t Regret Making This Recipe Sometimes unflinching honesty requires that I set aside all pretensions of humility. The matter of how best to prepare a pork shoulder steak is such a case. The recipe – no, recipe is too weak a word – the deep...
30 Minute Keto Ground Lamb Skillet with Feta Lamb and Feta Cheese Combine For a Fast, Flavorful Dinner Quick recipes often compromise in one area or another. Either they cut corners on seasoning, resulting in bland, boring food, or else the thirty minute time frame proves to be more aspirational than reality-based, with the whole...
Delicious Simplicity Country style ribs are actually cut from the shoulder. While they do usually include a piece of bone, it is much less prominent than in spare or baby back ribs. But the cooking principles are the same. Country style ribs should be cooked at a fairly low temperature until they are extremely tender....
A Classic Combination Like pistou, tzatziki comes infused with a great deal of history. Rich yogurt and crunchy cucumber combine with a zip of lemony garlic to make a sauce that goes perfectly with savory lamb meatballs. The trick with tzatziki is to make it rich but well balanced, and above all NOT WATERY. This...
A Bright, Quick, Flavorful Sauce Pistou resembles its better known cousin. Like pesto it is built on a base of basil and olive oil, but while it sometimes contains cheese, it does not include nuts. In this recipe I keep it very simple – fresh basil, peppery olive oil, garlic, and lemon juice. The result...