Tag: Garlic Powder

[Recipe Redo] Chili Con Carne

In making chili con carne this week, I took a look at the recipe I posted when I was just three months into writing This American Bite. I read the recipe and I realized how much I have grown as a food writer and a cook. Beside for the fact that the original recipe is long and the photograph is terrible, we have cut some of the ingredients from our [...]

2 May, 2013 // By : // 11 Comments

Grilled London Broil

A Jewish wedding is rich with traditions that begin as soon as a couple announce their engagement. Throw in the customs and preferences that have been celebrated by the families of the bride and groom since the beginning of time and there is plenty to factor in – which I suspect is just one reason that a Jewish wedding celebration allows for plenty of time for everyone to have their [...]

18 February, 2013 // By : // 26 Comments

Homemade Taco Seasoning & Vegetarian Tacos

A couple of months ago, I learned Mrs Smith was to retire.  Mrs Smith taught me when I was young, perhaps five or six years old, and not for more than a year or two because we moved to another town.  More than 20 years later, you ask me which of the educators had the biggest impact on my life, I’ll tell you it was Mrs Smith.  She had a [...]

15 January, 2013 // By : // 14 Comments

Dukkah Crusted Salmon

This wasn’t a planned recipe.  This was a late night dinner that happened to be awesome.  Wednesday night is usually grocery night in our home, and this week was no exception.  Somewhere between an emergency visit to the dentist for me, a quick dinner and bed time for our two year old son, and a class at the gym for my wife, we forgot to sit down and eat dinner [...]

3 January, 2013 // By : // 24 Comments

Live to Eat Herb Lentil Salad

For the last ten days I have been forced to think about something that I have forever taken for granted.  Do I live to eat, or eat to live?  I’ve always considered food to be one of my creative outlets, and as I prepare dinner tonight, I wonder if I can last six months with my recently-fitted retainer.  I know I shouldn’t complain.  We have more blessings than we can [...]

9 August, 2012 // By : // 17 Comments

Beer Can Chicken – and a First for Kansans

Barbeque, as I found out the hard way, is more than hot dogs and hamburgers cooked outdoors over a disposable grill.  When I was growing up, the height of summer was marked by a drive to the beach, undeterred by the rain, with a pathetic aluminum grill.  More often than not out outdoor adventure was challenged when the grill refused to light until we satisfied our hunger on snacks and or [...]

19 July, 2012 // By : // 5 Comments

Slow Cooked Jackfruit BBQ [Vegan]

Each Wednesday, after visiting the Farmers Market, my wife and a friend visit the international market to stock up on raw coconuts, whole cumin seeds, hot sauce and other exotic ingredients household staples that we store next to our marmite stash.  I always find it amazing how hard it can be to find a loaf of kosher bread in some stores, and yet I can stock up with magical, kosher [...]

10 July, 2012 // By : // 11 Comments

Grilled Brisket with Mexican Inspired Rub and Mopping Sauce

This week’s menu didn’t quite go to plan. We went from intimate “one-pot” dinner to cooking for ten, plus kids and I thank our freezer for defrosting mid-week for the feast we’re going to enjoy because we had a lot of fun making it.  Among the marrow bones, lamb steaks and chicken drumsticks that fell victim to our early summer thawing, there was a lonely brisket.  Just 3lbs of first cut [...]

14 June, 2012 // By : // 16 Comments

New Year Shoulder Roast

The Jewish New Year, Rosh HaShana, has passed, and with it, the first of three multi-day eating marathons of the season been completed.  You see, the Jewish New Year is not celebrated in the same way as one throws a party for New Years Eve, the two-day holiday is evenly split between praying in Synagogue, and dining with friends, family and members of the community.

4 October, 2011 // By : // 2 Comments

Lemon Thyme Chicken Tenders

For the second time this week, I share a chicken dish but these flavors could could just as easily be applied to tofu, tempeh or perhaps salmon.  Thyme is a very versatile herb but it’s not often that I use it as a primary flavor, but this dish, like many others, was born from that moment when I opened the door of the refrigerator and saw chicken, lemons and thyme.

26 September, 2011 // By : // 1 Comment