Tag: 40 recipe challenge
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40 Recipe Challenge, Part 35: Shrimp Pomodoro
Pomodoro sauce is essentially a basic tomato sauce, in the same way that an Alfredo sauce is a cream-based sauce. This recipe begins with plain Roma tomatoes and adds garlic, fresh basil, olive oil, shrimp, and crushed red pepper to create a spicy sauce atop al dente penne pasta. Here’s what you’ll need: 1 pound…
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40 Recipe Challenge, Part 24: Quiche
Last Christmas, I got 4 new cookbooks, plus a fifth on how to make 750 cocktails (I sense a 40 Cocktail Challenge on the horizon). This recipe, along with a few others that I’ve explored in recent months, comes from Cook This, Not That (available on Amazon for a ridiculously affordable price). The thing that…
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40 Recipe Challenge – An Update
Last year, one of my goals was to try 40 new recipes. I made it all the way up to 16. 2012 was not the best year for me. Since then, however, I’ve moved, purchased a grill (Weber Performer…as if there were any other choice), and really tore into the cookbooks. Below is a summary…
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40 Recipe Challenge, Part 16: Broccoli Cheese Soup
There are a handful of soups out there that I want to make one of these days. Seafood asparagus bisque, chicken enchilada, and broccoli cheese, among others. After crossing clam chowder off the list with an awesome recipe a few weeks ago, I decided to riff on that recipe and modify it for broccoli cheese…
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40 Recipe Challenge, Part 15: One-pot Chili
Fall is more or less here, and I’m in a mood to do soups, largely because they’re easy to make and make for a pretty good leftover during the week’s lunches. Since I had some canned Roma tomatoes I needed to use up and I wanted to clean a few other things out of the…
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40 Recipe Challenge, Part 14: Clam Chowder
A few weeks ago I decided that I wasn’t going to wait for the weather to cool down any more, so on a weekend when it was 80ish degrees outside, I made clam chowder. The recipe for said chowder came from my Two Guys One Pan cookbook, and it was amazing. This was the first…
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40 Recipe Challenge, Part 13: Chicken Thighs with Herbs and Wine
This is another recipe that I got from Two Dudes, One Pan. I would strongly advise using chicken thighs, and not chicken breasts; they’re delicious that way. What you’ll need: Approximately 1lb of boneless chicken thighs, skin on (if they’re skinless that’s fine too) 2 tbl salt 2 tbl oil 2 shallots, thinly sliced 2…
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40 Recipe Challenge, Part 12: Risotto with Bacon and Shittake Mushrooms
Back when I made the crock pot pulled pork in March, my friend looked at the leftover juices and drippings in the crock pot and suggested that some good stock could come out of that. Figuring that there was nothing to lose, I turned the crock pot down to low and returned to it the…
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40 Recipe Challenge, Part 11: Hash Browns
A few weeks ago I got a grater with the express purpose of making hash browns, but I never managed to get around to making them until today. They’re a little more involved than I had originally expected, but they were definitely worth it. I got the original recipe from the Williams-Sonoma site (available here)…
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40 Recipe Challenge, Part 10: Mexican Rice
In addition to the chicken enchiladas I made last night, I also decided to put together some Mexican rice. Mexican rice and Japanese fried rice are two things I wanted to figure out this year, and last night I think I made decent progress towards figuring out the first of those two things. This is…