From the category archives:

Beef

A Birthday Lasagna

March 21, 2010
Lasagna with Meat Sauce and Besciamella

I bought a book on etiquette shortly after Audrey was born, assuming that any great-grandchild of my gracious Southern grandmothers would naturally grow up to be extremely well-behaved, polite even.  Bones, on the other hand, declared loudly that he had no intention of raising a quiet, mousy, namby pamby, mealy-mouthed child with no mind of her own.  He [...]

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Kitchen Doodads, Gadgets and Gizmos

February 26, 2010
Kitchen gadgets

Do we really need lots of specialized equipment and gadgets to be good cooks?  I find the more time I spend in the kitchen, the less of my clever gewgaws I actually use.  I sometimes open the utensil drawer in the kitchen and wonder what I was thinking.  What compelled me to buy these things?  I have not one, but two of those weird claw-like [...]

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Jamaican Pot Roast

February 24, 2010
Jamaican Pot Roast

My last post on why I cook has me has thrown me into a fit of kitchen nostalgia.  I feel like the kid in The Sixth Sense, only instead of dead people, I see fried chicken, biscuits, and pork chops smothered in cream gravy.  And I see Grandmother’s pot roast.    Her pot roast was a glorious paradigm of simple home [...]

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Trinidad Beef Curry

December 5, 2009
Trinidad Beef Curry

The Christmas winds have finally arrived, bringing cooler weather…though cool is a relative term in the Caribbean.  I jump at any excuse to make a hearty, warming beef stew and thought I’d try my hand at a Trinidad-style beef curry (or curry beef as they sometimes say in Trinidad).  Devica, being my resident expert on Trini cooking but [...]

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