Cooking for the refugees this weekend, I made a Venezuelan slaw to go with the pulled pork and arepas. It’s funny — it’s only in recent years that I’ve gotten to actually like this kind of thing, but now I think it makes the sandwich so much better. Although admittedly, this was a little mild […]
One of the suggested fillings for Venezuelan arepas is sweet potato, which seems to be typically sliced and then just sautéed on the stovetop until cooked. That takes a while stirring, though, especially if you’re cooking in bulk for a large crowd. I ended up roasting them instead (toss in olive oil, salt and pepper,
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Reina Pepiada is a Venezuelan chicken salad traditionally served with arepas — apparently the name means ‘queen with beautiful curves,’ so that’s nice. It’s a pretty typical chicken salad, I think, except that it includes mashed avocado, which gives a creamy lusciousness to it overall. It comes together quickly — poach the chicken in water
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Cooking for the Venezuelan refugees. This is a little bit of an adaptation — browsing recipes, I came across ‘tizana,’ which is similar to sangria, but without the red wine. A refreshing fruit and juice drink. Usually it has grenadine (pomegranate syrup), which gives it a characteristic color. I didn’t have any on hand, but
Cooking for the Venezuelan refugees again today — tried a new recipe for pulled pork — delicious. This is a pretty frugal option for feeding a meat-loving crowd — 4 pounds of bone-in pork for $15. I only did a double recipe of this (instead of quadrupling to feed 40), because I was also planning
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Just clearing out my phone photos a bit — this is from a few weeks ago, making lunch for my SLF and Serendib teams. We do most of our work online, but I think it really helps getting together in person once in a while. Salmon green curry, gado-gado (Indonesian spicy peanut sauce with a
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The first few times I went to Hawai’i, Jed treated me to a lot of sightseeing and tourist stuff, which was great — helicopter tour, snuba, visit to the Dole Plantation and the queen’s palace, lots of eating at local restaurants. This trip, I pretty much went straight to friends’ houses, shopped at local markets
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Quick note that I’ll be out of town for the next five days; I was invited to do a writing retreat at a friend’s place in Kauai, and since I’ve written almost nothing all summer (there’ll be a post about that soon, I suspect), I decided to take him up on the kind offer. Will
Sri Lankan cashew milk toffee has a texture similar to pralines or New England maple candy — it’s not really a toffee, despite the name; more like a crisp fudge? It melts in your mouth — it’s really the texture that I love so much. That does mean that cutting it into squares can be
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