Super Easy Rice Cooker Biryani
The dish is lightly spiced enough that confirmed Indian food haters can be won over, but it’s still flavorful enough for those of us that love Indian food. The cashews add a little crunch in this hearty lentil and rice dish. One of the best things is you can add seasonal veggies and vary the spices to suit your taste. Read More
Drunken Halibut
This week is all about foods or recipes that make us happy. There are many meaty dishes that make me smile from ear to ear. Rich, slow-roasted stews. Hearty soups filled with chunks of roasted chicken or tiny, savory meatballs. Simply grilled steaks. Sticky ribs that are slowly smoked over an open fire. One dish that always puts a smile on my face is a piece of snowy white halibut that has been poached in oil olive, or oven roasted with a drizzle of white wine, or marinaded and grilled.
Massaged Kale Salad with Mango & Avocado
This week, my fellow Back Burner bloggers and I were asked to share a recipe that makes us happy.
Well. Food in general makes me happy, so I really could have used any number of recipes from my arsenal. Yet this kale salad kept creeping up into the forefront of my brainstorming, and I realized that it was the absolute perfect fit for this week’s theme.
Pickled Shrimp For My Mother’s Day
I’m a lucky man here at The Back Burner because my post falls on the weekend. Mother’s Day Weekend. I am also lucky to have so many of my mother’s recipes compiled into a cookbook my brother put together after she passed away in 1993, long before her time. I cherish the cookbook. Of course I do, though I rarely cook from this book. I pull it out many, many (many) times to seek culinary inspiration and quietly remember my mother. But I almost never sit down, follow a recipe and cook. Until today.
The recipes from this collection are mostly familiar to me. Foods strongly attached to the woman I knew as mom and the food she provided my childhood tummy. Most of the recipes seem to me to be comfort foods from my past– dishes I find endearing because they highlight some aspect of my mother’s quirky attributes, or are just plain-ole childhood favorites. Read More
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