BVC Eats: Frugality with Confit Mushrooms or Tomatoes
You confit something by cooking it slowly and then preserving it under a layer of fat. The best known food of this type is confit
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BVC Eats: Better corn bread
My husband recently entered a bake-off with the cast and crew of Motown: The Musical at the Oriental Theater in Chicago. Bless him, he wanted to enter
BVC Eats: Jennifer Stevenson’s Mexican Casserole
This stuff will kill you, but you won’t care. It’s intense, dense, and more-ish. Resist the temptation to add more ingredients, because your casserole will
BVC Eats: Chipotle-garlic potatoes
I had this dish first in a restaurant in Miller, Indiana. It blew me away. This is my approximation. This serves four people, with leftovers.
BVC Eats: Boozy chocolate trifle
this dessert is highly alcoholic serves twelve to fifteen drunks 2 to 3 lb. pound cake -Chocolate marble pound cake is best. -You can substitute
BVC Eats COMFORT FOOD: Dirty rice
This super-quick comfort food can be put together in the time it takes a pot of rice to cook. It can be made with ground
BVC Eats: Chilequiles
This is a great big gloppy plate of comfort food, Mexican style: yet another recipe you can pull together, like stone soup or tacos, out
BVC Eats: Black-eyed peas and ham hocks
I much prefer fresh black-eyed peas to dried and reconstituted. The fresh ones are much finer and creamier in texture, and never grainy. You can
BVC Eats: Beef stew with dried guajillo chiles
My supermercado, Rogers Park Fruit Market, is a continual inspiration to me. I was in there Wednesday getting the usual stuff and as usual browsing
BVC Eats: Greasy food revisited…baked eggs
This is the kind of thing you eat when it’s still cold out, darnit, and spring should have been here weeks ago, and coffee isn’t
BVC Eats: Aromatic fennel, carrots, and onions
This vegetarian dish is delicately fragrant and mildly sweet with the natural sugars of fennel, carrots, onions, and orange juice. The smashed coriander seed and
BVC Eats: Avocado raita
This is a cold, creamy sauce or soup that you can serve with tacos, curry, rijstafl, jerked meat, or anything spicy that wants a cool
Winter BVC Eats: Smoking Bishop
It is said of modern novels that, whatever other problems the characters have, at least they have a lot of sex. This cannot be said