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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

I tried making this because my family gave me a whole bunch of frozen tomatoes.  The only thing you can really do with frozen tomatoes is stew them down, at which point you can make spaghetti sauce – which I already had a ton of in the freezer – or I figured you can take… Continue reading Chocolate Barbecue sauce

The name is kind of an inside joke.  When we were kids we didn’t know what this was but we loved it, and we were constantly asking my mom to make “noodles with stuff in it.”  Incidentally, we also referred to vegetable fried rice (which we also loved) as “rice with stuff in it”.  I… Continue reading Noodles with stuff in it

Okay, so you’re going to have to bear with me here if you aren’t familiar with this dish.  It isn’t chili like you’re probably thinking.  No beans, it has cinnamon and chocolate in it, you eat it over spaghetti…it’s different.  It’s really good, but it’s kind of weird. Ingredients: 2 pounds ground beef 1 large… Continue reading Cincinnati Chili