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This is a very simple recipe for beef stroganoff that I got from my mother.

Beef Ingredients:
1½ lbs of beef, cubed
4 tbs flour
½ tsp salt
½ tsp pepper
½ tsp paprika
1 beef bouillon cube
½ C boiling water

Sauce Ingredients:
1 pint sour cream
2 tbs pureed tomato

1 chopped onion

Edit!
Mushrooms--equal amount with the meat.

Procedure:
Coat the beef in the flour, salt, pepper, and paprika. Brown in a Dutch oven, using a tablespoon of butter.

Put the bouillon in the… Continue

Den and I went down to the Tuckahoe Inn for Valentine's Day; if you ever go, definitely have the crab cakes. They were fantastic--all lump crab meat, Maryland style. And the clams casino appetizer was great too.

Oh, and really, you should have a reservation. Showing up at a restaurant on Valentine's Day and just expecting to walk in is stupid.

In a recent restaurant review on Yelp.com - someone wrote:

...The last time I was here it was an agonizing wait; granted it was a Friday evening but still for arriving at 7:40 and for 3 people to not be seated until 9 is just crazy. Maybe I would have gone elsewhere if they had been honest about the wait time, but they said 20 min...

My open question: In that situation, how long would YOU wait? Would you wait at all? I'm curious to read your thoughts - so please click and share your com… Continue

Christmas Plum Pudding is a traditional English dessert for this time of year. There are really no two ways of making it, though most are done a month in advance and stored, with brandy periodically poured on it. Well, I'm too lazy and forgetful for that, so instead I make it the day before and then put a hard sauce on it before serving.

For this dish, you will need two steam pots with molds.

Dry Ingredients:
¾ C flour
1 tsp salt
¾ tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
¼ tsp nutmeg
½ tsp mace

Fruits… Continue

Vindaloo was originally a Portugese dish, introduced to the Indian state of Goa some time during the early modern period. It can be made with any number of meats, but I'm partial to chicken or shrimp. It tends to be very spicy, but I've found, at least with this recipe, that the first day eating it isn't very spicy, but over the next few days, as it sits in the fridge, it gets spicier. Don't know why, but I do like it.

Ingredients
2 lbs. chicken thighs OR 3 chicken breasts, diced into 1"… Continue

No - I'm not demanding that you knock Philly - heaven knows it's been knocked around enough!

I finally had the time to check out Knock Restaurant for dinner a couple weeks ago - and thought I'd share my two cents.

First some backgroun… Continue

This place is straight out of "Stuff White People Like". Seriously.

Let's go down the check list:
Brunch? check!
Asian Girls? check!
Coffee and tea choices besides regular and decaf? check!
Bikes parked outside? Check!
Stupid Art on the Wall? Check!
Overeducated idiots waiting on you? double check!
Oh I got tired, but it ticks every box.

This place is in a converted warehouse space and that makes it "soooo coool, and grity and like REAL". At le… Continue

This is a pretty loose recipe--so much so that I've never actually written it down.

Sauce:
2 cups rice
12 oz. can tomato sauce
½ cup hot sauce (or to taste)
1 tomato, diced
1 green pepper, sliced
2 jalapeños, diced
1 red onion, diced
2 cloves garlic, diced
fresh chopped cilantro (to taste)

Meat:
1 lb. hot italian sausage (I use Hatfield's rope)
1 lb. chicken thighs
2 ham steaks
½ lb shrimp

Boil the rice; add vegetables half-way through. When done, add tomato sauce and hot sauce.

Cut the saus… Continue

I need to take a moment and rave about the brunch at Lacroix at the Rittenhouse. My first visit was back in February for a friend's Bday. I was skeptical, only because the entire world was raving about it. I was expecting an over-priced, stuffy, snobby and pretentious place. (You may be wondering why i even went) I told my 2 friends "No Jeans." One friend is a chef in Kennett and the other is an editor who works out of her home. Showering is not a daily thing with them, and they are usually wear… Continue