My mom got me a latin american cookbook for christmas, and this was the first thing I made out of it.  I loved it, with one caveat.  The recipe didn’t say anything about what to do with the whole spices, so I just threw them in without thinking.  So every other bite you could bite… Continue reading Jamaican seafood curry

I got this recipe from a friend who doesn’t really cook but loves to bake, and I demanded the recipe from her.  I did some looking around the internet, and the thing that makes these Mexican isn’t the just the chili powder like I thought.  Turns out that in Mexico it’s common for chocolate to… Continue reading Mexican Chocolate Cookies

Nothing really special about this except that it tastes great and it’s one of my favorite easy things to make. If you don’t know, Chinese 5 spice is (I’m quoting wikipedia here) a combination of star anise, cinnamon, cloves, pepper, and fennel seeds.  I mix it up with some garlic powder and salt, coat a… Continue reading 5-spice crusted pork roast

This is super easy and takes ten minutes to make.  You will need either a blender or a food processor to chop everything up.  Once it’s done, it keeps in the fridge forever, because the oil will separate and seal everything else from the air.  Once it’s done, mix it up with chicken, maybe sun… Continue reading Basil Pesto

Borscht is this delicious Ukrainian soup, very common all over Russia.  It’s made from (in this case) beef, beets, and cabbage.  There are other things but that’s most of it.  And it freezes pretty well, so it’s something you can make and then just have around. Also, a note of caution: There’s no good way… Continue reading Borscht! Yay!

Just trust me, these are really good.  A note though, use thicker pork chops for this.  I used what it turns out were really thin pork chops and they got overcooked almost immediately. Pork chops with prunes 8 pork medallions or 4 manly sized pork chops 16 prunes 1 onion, diced 1/2 a cup of… Continue reading Pork chops with Prunes (yes, really)

Macaroni and cheese is a cheap and simple meal that pretty much everyone has eaten.  It’s kind of crappy and not very nutritious. Carbonara is a tasty pasta dish made with eggs, bacon, black pepper, cheese, and sometimes other ingredients, like chicken or peas.  This week I made something that is a bit different, but… Continue reading Greg’s Mac and Cheese

The name is kind of weird, but you can think of this as sort of a Brazilian answer to pico de gallo.   It’s really nice by itself on chips, or on top of feijoada.  I had a bunch left over after a dinner, so I also scrambled it with eggs and queso fresco, that was… Continue reading Brazilian Vinaigrette

I made these on a whim about a month ago because the recipe sounded different.  Most of the way through I realized that I was basically making croquettes.  Not a bad thing, just a weird thing to realize half way through. The real reason I’m posting the recipe, though, is because I thought the cream… Continue reading Tefteli (russian croquettes) in cream sauce

The biggest pain in the ass here is finding the damn rice.  Took me forever because it turns out this rice is “fancy” and not sold with a regular rice of the common people.  But it ends up tasting really good, so if you don’t mind being a class traitor, it’s totally worth it. The… Continue reading Mushroom Risotto