Whole Cabbage Kimchi
🕓 Dec 30, 2023
Ingredients
- 5 kg napa cabbage
- 2.5-3 cups salt
- 5 tbsp flour
- 2 cups koch’u karu (dried/powdered korean red pepper)
- 1+ cup sugar
- 3 tbsp lemon juice
- 1-3 red peppers, 1/4"-wide matchsticks, then chopped crosswise
- 1-3 hot peppers, 1/4"-wide matchsticks, then chopped crosswise
- 1-2 bunches...
Char Siu Sauce
🕓 Dec 29, 2023
Ingredients
- oil
- 1/2 cup minced green onion whites
- 1-2 bunches, a little less if you stretch the definition of whites
- 1/4 cup minced ginger
- 1/4 cup shaoxing rice wine
- 2.5 cups water
- 3 1/3 tbsp light soy sauce
- 2 tsp dark soy sauce
- 1/4 tsp - 1/2 tsp red yeast rice, ground (substitute with sweet...
Honey Char Siu
🕓 Dec 29, 2023
Ingredients
- 1kg (2.5lbs) pork (boston butt, pork belly, pork neck, loin roast)
- 18 tbsp (1 bottle) Char Siu Sauce
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 3 tbsp honey
- oil
Instructions
(The day before)
- Slice the pork into strips about 1" x 2"
- Combine 9 tbsp char siu with 1 tbsp soy sauce
- Poke holes in the pork...
Mashed Potatoes
🕓 Dec 26, 2023
Ingredients
- 0.75 cups butter
- 1.5 cups heavy cream
- 2.25kg (5lbs) russet potatoes
- 2 tsp salt
Instructions
- Wash and peel potatoes
- Cut potatoes into half or quarters depending on their size
- The goal is to have the chunks be around the same size
- Add the potatoes to salted water in a large pot and...
Fudge
🕓 Dec 17, 2023
A 9x9" pan of sticky fudge
Ingredients
- 1.5tsp baking soda
- 2 cups brown sugar
- 1 tbsp flour
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1.5 cups milk
- 2 tbsp (maple or corn) syrup
- 2 tbsp butter
Mixins (optional):
- ~1/2 cup crushed nuts
- spices (vanilla, salt crystals, etc.)
- ~4 oz melted chocolate
- with 1 tsp espresso powder...
Gingerbread Cookies
🕓 Dec 17, 2023
Note: prepare the batter a day before baking
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- 1 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
- 1/2 cup (295g) fancy molasses
- 2 eggs
- 4+ cups ((540g) flour
- 2 tbsp ground ginger
- 1/4 tsp ground allspice
- 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
- 1/4 tsp ground clove
- 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 2 tsp...
Shortbread
🕓 Dec 17, 2023
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 cup (10oz) softened butter
- 1/4 cup (1 oz) powdered sugar, sifted
- 1/4 cup (1.75 oz) white sugar
- 2 1/4 cup (12.5 oz) flour
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 275F
- Whisk the sugars together
- In a large bowl, cream the butter then add sugar
- Mix in the flour
- Let dough rest for 10 minutes...
Pumpkin Pie
🕓 Oct 10, 2023
Makes a single 9" pie
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup (99g) granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup (106) brown sugar, packed
- 1 tbsp flour
- 1/2 tsp salt
- One of the spice mixes(see below) or 2 1/2 tbsp pumpkin pie spice
- 3 large eggs, beaten
- 2 scant cups (425g or ~15oz can) pumpkin purée
- 1 1/4 (283g) light (~15%) cream or...
Simple Pie Crust
🕓 Oct 10, 2023
Makes a single pie crust (no top)
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups (180g) unbleached white flour
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 4 tbsp (46g) vegetable shortening
- 5 tbsp (71g) unsalted butter
- 3-5 tbsp (43 - 71g) ice water
Instructions
- Stir together flour and salt
- Work in shortening until mixture is crumbly
- Work in butter,...
Spice Roasted Cauliflower and Green Beans
🕓 Oct 9, 2023
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp tomato paste
- 1 tbsp red wine vinegar
- 2 tsp honey
- 2 tsp garam masala
- 1 tsp gochugaru (ground korean red pepper)
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 cauliflower, cut into florets
- 1 onion, sliced
- 6 garlic cloves, smashed and coarsely chopped
- 250g green beans, trimmed and cut in half...