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Sunday, May 1st, 2011
Delegating these recipes to your friends or family and then setting everything up on a table with crock-pots or warming plates can help this dinner serve-itself all-night-long. I’ve found that one of the hardest parts about having a dinner party is the fact that you are running around your own house getting all of the food prepared and served and not getting to spend time with friends. Not to mention, you’re exhausted from cooking, before your friends even arrive! With this menu, you need 4-5 cooks to complete the dinner.
Cook #1 (The Host):
Cook #2:
Cook #3:
Cook #4 – (The Baker):
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Tags: BBQ, Dinner, Home Cookin', Recipes
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
This salad recipe is a restaurant recreation based on a salad that I had at Big Sur Bakery and Restaurant in June. It was awesome! This is definitely one of my favorite recipes of the summer, so far. I looked in the Big Sur Bakery Cookbook and realized that the peach and mache salad was based on the Field Greens Salad with Pecans, Croutons, and Ranch Dressing recipe + garlic in the dressing, peaches in the salad, and Feta cheese but no croutons.
Peach, Feta, & Mache Salad with Creamy Garlic (Ranch) Dressing
Serves 10
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Tags: CSA, CSA Box, homemade mayonnaise, mache, peaches, ranch dressing, Recipes, Salad, Vegetarian
Saturday, July 3rd, 2010
We get greens every single week. So this week, it was time to find another creative way to ingest more greens. I googled, “Creative Kale Recipe” and an interesting one came up from a blog that tried to recreate a dish from M Cafe in Beverly Hills. Folks started commenting on the blog post that they love this signature dish from M Cafe. So I then looked for the actual recipe and found a video online about how to make it as well as the restaurant recipe from M Cafe. This is a very interesting, delicious, and unique greens recipe!
CSA Food Box Ingredient: Red Russian Kale or just Kale
Kale with Spicy Peanut Dressing Recipe from M Cafe
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Tags: CSA, Greens, Home Cookin', Kale, Peanut Sauce, Recipes, Side Dish, Vegetarian
Monday, May 24th, 2010
We’ve made this LA Times Al Pastor recipe twice, once for camping and once for a party. The great thing about it is you can make it in advance and heat it up later! You can even cook it up in the oven and then shred it and put it in your crock-pot to keep it warm for a long partying night. The crock-pot is the secret to having the taco bar open and ready for the guests all night long!
This is an adapted recipe from Raúl Morales for the oven by the LA Times. I used a variety of dried chilies from a Mexican market (or Whole Foods).
Al Pastor Recipe
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Tags: El Pastor, Home Cookin', Mexican, Pork, Recipes, Tacos
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
This recipe, Bob Mill’s Wilted Lettuce, came from our Peace, Love, and Barbecue Cookbook by Mike Mills, Amy Mills Tunnicliffe. This is one of our absolute favorite cookbooks and we use it all of the time particularly for summer BBQ’s. So as you can imagine, a BBQ cookbook may have some kind of pork in every recipe, even the salads! Yep, we love bacon! Along with the bacon, you can use any and all lettuce types that you have on hand for this recipe.
To look at some other recipes from Peace, Love, and Barbecue : Recipes, Secrets, Tall Tales, and Outright Lies from the Legends of Barbecue check out:
Bob Mill’s Wilted Lettuce Recipe ->
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Tags: Home Cookin', Lettuce, Recipes, Salad
Monday, April 19th, 2010
These are simply sinful and super easy to make!
Oreo Truffles Recipe
- 1 (16 ounce) package OREO Chocolate Sandwich Cookies, divided
- 1 (8 ounce) package Cream Cheese, softened
- 2 (8 ounce) packages Semi-Sweet Baking Chocolate, melted (higher quality works best)
- Crush 9 cookies in food processor until finely smashed and set aside. Crush remaining 36 cookies to fine crumbs. Mix cream cheese with cookies. Roll the cookies into roughly 40 or so 1-inch balls.
- Dip the balls in chocolate (higher quality chocolate tastes better). Place on wax paper and crumble cookies on top or drizzle white chocolate over top.
- Refrigerate until firm. Store covered in fridge.
* I have to give credit to Amy for introducing me to this recipe and for making the truffles pictured above.
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Tags: chocolate, dessert, Home Cookin', Recipes, sweets, Tailgait Recipe
Friday, April 16th, 2010
Rutabagas are mysterious vegetables that I had no idea what to do with. You have to boil the hell out of the rutabagas to get them tender. The smashed rutabaga recipe tastes a lot like mashed potatoes but it feels so healthy and clean!
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Tags: Home Cookin', Recipes, Rutabaga, Side Dish, Vegetarian
