BVC Eats: Rich’s favorite tump chili
I believe in easy cooking. If it takes longer than fifteen minutes to assemble, it’s too hard. This is not because I lack the patience
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BVC Eats: Hot pepper chicken with smoked oysters
Early in my marriage, wok cooking became fashionable. Everyone owned huge arrays of dried peppers and seaweeds, chili oils, rice wines, vinegars, light soy sauce,
BVC Eats: Golden paste for golden tea
Strictly speaking golden tea is not a beverage, but medicine. The spices are warming and comforting, the turmeric reduces inflammation, the coconut fat aids digestion,
BVC Eats: Ya mutha’s chicken
This was one of my mother’s foolproof recipes. All Mom’s most edible dishes contained either corn or pork, except this one. I think she learned
BVC Eats: Stay home egg nog fluff
Here’s an eggnog recipe we have for the holidays, but only for a crowd. 1 fifth high-quality dark rum 1 fifth high-quality bourbon 1 dozen
Mrs Bailey’s Martian Kitchen (and her famous Oxford Marmalade recipe)
As everyone knows (well, everyone who pays any attention to geopolitical realities), Mars has been a province of the British Empire for the last hundred
BVC Eats: “The Marianne” pork chop casserole
This one-dish-meal recipe was given me orally by my neighbor Marianne, who learned to cook it during WWII when she was taken away from Poland
BVC Eats: Welsh cakes à la Vénusienne
This recipe was given to me by our landlords in New Haven. They were odd folk. Mark was a pagan, once the Pursuivant of Arms
BVC Eats: A St. Gildas Day breakfast
It is January 30, ten years ago. Last night, we had held our traditional St. Gildas Day party. (We can only have this breakfast after
BVC Eats: Thai-style seafood chowder
BVC Eats: Thai-Style Seafood Chowder I came up with this one about ten years ago. It’s very thick and rich. Plan to serve small amounts
BVC Eats: Gramma Dornfeld’s molasses gingerbread
Winter wasn’t winter without Gramma Dornfeld’s gingerbread. It was dark and fluffy and a little bitter, and we ate it hot out of the oven,
BVC Eats-Garlicky pasta salad
You may serve this while the pasta is still warm, or chill it for a couple of hours. The longer it sits, the stronger the
BVC Eats: Chicken in saffron cream sauce
Readers of my food blogs are used to extremely high-fat recipes. This one does call for half a stick of butter, but you can reduce
