Posted by Adam Kuban, May 10, 2008 at 5:00 PM
I'm sure a good deal of you already have dinner plans for tomorrow night, what with Mother's Day and all. Since I'll be about 1,200 miles from my own mom tomorrow, I thought I'd make a batch of one of my favorite childhood dishes as a sort of culinary tribute in absentia. Wait, that doesn't make any sense. I guess I just want to eat somethign to remind me of home tomorrow night. So I'm going to share this recipe for Beef Stew that my mom often made (and probably still does).
And for anyone who likes to quibble with recipes, now's not the time. It's my mom's, it's Mother's Day weekend, and anyone giving guff is on a fast road to Banyourassville. ;)
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Posted by Adam Kuban, February 23, 2008 at 4:00 PM
Our final Cook the Book recipe of the week, adapted from Cook with Jamie by Jamie Oliver, is for a comforting bowl of shin stew. After sautéing some vegetables and searing the beef, the oven does most of the work, slowly cooking the beef shin to a tender-as-you-like-it texture while filling your kitchen with a tempting aroma.
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Posted by Adam Kuban, February 19, 2008 at 3:15 PM
We thought we'd start out this week's Cook the Book series by highlighting one of Jamie Oliver's favorite recipes from Cook with Jamie. It's a dish he playfully calls Tender-as-You-Like Rabbit Stew with the Best Dumplings Ever. Though rabbit is not as common a meat as it once was, Oliver urges you to give it a shot. And if you find you don't like it, you can always sub in chicken instead. The dumplings, he says, make this recipe and can be used in any stew.
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Posted by The Gurgling Cod, September 8, 2007 at 5:00 PM
Editor's note: This entry marks the first in a series called Sunday Night Soups. Our friend The Gurgling Cod will be concocting them and posting them. And, yeah, it's Saturday as we post this, but that's so you have some time to shop for and cook this recipe. Enjoy! —Adam
Welcome to Sunday Night Soups, where each week Serious Eats will offer a soup appropriate to the week’s Sunday Night Football game on NBC. This week’s game sees Eli, the other Manning, and his New York Giants travel to Dallas to take on the Cowboys. The Texas venue basically demands beef, and a lot of beef, and New York has at least two Koreatowns, and that’s enough of an excuse to make this Korean-spiced chili.
The origin of this chili was Craig Claiborne’s recipe in the New New York Times Cookbook
, but necessity dictated a few audibles the first time I made it (Korean red pepper powder for chili powder, and Quaker oats for flour), and they worked out well enough that I’ve been making it like this ever since.
This is more of a stew than a soup, but it is as close as you can get to steak you can eat with a spoon. Starting with cubed—rather than ground—beef produces a texture that is much more interesting than most chilis. You can adjust the heat up or down, depending on your taste, but if the heat seems too much as you cook, add two or three tablespoons of honey.
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