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December 20, 2009

Orange Chicken and Cheesey Potato Goodness

Looking for something delicious for dinner? Put Amy Casey's Roasted Orange and Thyme Chicken Thighs and Crispy Parmesan Potatoes on your menu. You'll love them. We did. These recipes are featured on Amy's Top 10 Recipes on Dinners for a Year and Beyond. Both recipes are easy and delicious.

(I cooked both the chicken and potatoes at 375F so I could cook them at the same time.)

Posted December 20, 2009 8:43 PM in Recipes | Comments (0)

December 7, 2009

Yes, Virginia you can make delicious gluten-free, dairy-free, vegan truffles

I've been making chocolate truffles for years. This year I decided to attempt to try my hand at gluten-free, dairy-free, vegan truffles. My go to recipe is simple, three ingredients: heavy cream, bittersweet chocolate, and butter. Taking the dairy out of it was a lot easier than I thought it would. Coconut milk (regular, not light) has a viscosity similar to cream. I often replace butter with Earth Balance Vegan Buttery Sticks. Vegan chocolate is easy to find, gluten-free chocolate is easy to find, but organic and vegan chocolate, not so easy. Lots of choices for semi-sweet chocolate, not so many choices for bittersweet chocolate. Endangered Species Organic Smooth Dark Chocolate (70% cocoa content) is certified gluten-free, vegan, and kosher. Hurrah!

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Posted December 7, 2009 3:00 PM in Recipes, Test Kitchen | Comments (0)

December 6, 2009

A tough steak made tender by braising

Sunday has been my day to cook beef from the organic, grass-fed, hormone- and antibiotic-free beef I bought this Fall from Windy Hill Farm. I'm trying lots of cuts that I never buy. Tonight's cut was eye round steaks. My mom made eye round roasts when I was a kid. We were lucky that my dad is a master slicer and sliced the roasts paper thin. Eye round is one of my least favorite cuts of beef. I followed the beef farmer's advice and got it cut into steaks rather than getting an eye round roast.

My search for eye round steak recipes lead me to a recipe for braised steaks that claims to be a favorite of President Ford: President Ford's Braised Eye Round Steaks from All Recipes. My changes were more onions, more wine, adding about 8 ounces of tomato sauce that I wanted to use up, braising the steaks for 1.5 hours, then removing the beef and reducing the sauce until it was thick and rich.

Tom called it "Pot Roast in Steak Form". An easy and tasty way to cook eye round steaks. Braising the steaks resulted in a tender steak from a lean cut that if not cooked properly can be quite tough.

Posted December 6, 2009 8:35 PM in Test Kitchen | Comments (0)

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