Recipes

This is not a food blog. I don’t want to be a food blogger. 👩🏻‍🍳

I would like to make some family recipes publicly accessible without vendor lock-in or asking friends and family to make yet another account on a random “recipe keeper” service. It’s hard to do better than markdown and a git repo for platform neutrality, so this is as good of a place as any.

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Mix lists

• BBQ sauce
• Compound butters
• Marinades
• Seasoning blends
• Stocks and broths
• Tea blends

Recipe list

• Alfredo sauce - Simple sauce, lots of variations and cheese
• BBQ beans - Tangy and smokey mustard BBQ beans
• Baked beans - Beans baked with molasses and salt pork
• Baked donuts - Simple donuts that come together in under an hour, made from scratch and baked. 🍩
• Banana bread - Everyone’s favorite way to use up brown bananas 🍌
• Banana pancakes - Yet another way to use up brown bananas
• Black bean burgers - Spicy burgers for grilling 🌶️🍔
• Black beans - Big pot of black beans for soup, tacos, over rice, or a million other ways.
• Bourbon mac and cheese - It’s bacon and booze in your mac and cheese, great BBQ side dish.
• Bread machine bread - Whole wheat bread for the bread machine 🍞
• Buttermilk drop biscuits - Fast whole-grain drop biscuits
• Buttermilk fried chicken bites - The deep fryer comes out of the pantry about once a year and this is why. 🍗
• Caramelized onion jam - Spread on sandwiches, top on crusty bread, serve on a cheese board, and more.
• Carnitas - Easy oven carnitas
• Cashew chicken - Quick weeknight meal with extra veggies! Delicious without the chicken too.
• Cassoulet - Brothy beans and tender meats in a big pot, but not traditional.
• Cheddar, bacon, and chives skillet bread - Savory breakfast skillet bread (or scones)
• Chex mix - Homemade party snack - nuts optional
• Chicken and mushroom pasta - Chicken and cremini mushrooms in a cream reduction sauce. Not “rigatoni d” from a nice Italian restaurant.
• Chicken marsala - Simple chicken marsala
• Chicken pot pie - Freezer-friendly meal with tons of veggies from a rotisserie chicken
• Chocolate mouse-y cookies - Holiday cookie for the cookie jar
• Chocolate mousse - the family recipe
• Christmas pecans - Nana’s handwritten recipe for the spiced pecans she’d make at Christmas
• Cinnamon rolls - Bake right away or freeze until you’re ready, as individual rolls or a giant single roll for brunch
• Coffee cake - Crumbly cinnamon coffee cake
• Confetti cake - Vanilla cake with sprinkles inside and on top! 🍰
• Cornbread stuffing - The side dish that goes with all the holiday meals, (mostly) from scratch
• Country bread - A simple daily boule of flour, yeast, water, and salt. Start the night before, then bake around lunch. 🥖
• Crepes - Traditional crepes, fill with fruit or vegetables or cheese or any other number of tasty things.
• Dark chocolate ice cream - As dark as you’d like it
• Dinner rolls - Fast yeasty dinner rolls in a dutch oven.
• Enchilada sauce - Red enchilada sauce.
• Granola - Slow-cooker granola
• Grasshopper cheesecake - Creme de menthe and cocoa cheesecake in a chocolate cookie crust
• Grilled bread - Grilled no-knead focaccia bread
• Hudson Bay bread - Shelf-stable high-energy trail snack
• Jambalaya - Needs no introduction, just time
• Kernel corn spoonbread - Sweet corn spoonbread from family gatherings
• Manicotti - (or lasagna if you’d rather)
• Mocha truffles - Christmas-time chocolates with just a hint of coffee to balance it all out
• Monster cookies - Cookies to feed the entire scouting troop for a whole trip
• Peppermint bark - Holiday candy
• Pie crust - Simple crust for most pies
• Pizza sauce - Big batch of pizza sauce 🍕
• Potato salad - The mother-in-law’s potato salad
• Pumpkin bread - It’s only cake if you frost it, right? 🎃
• Pumpkin pie - The Thanksgiving dessert
• Pumpkin spice muffins - When making pie is too much and muffins are just easier.
• Quiche - Easy breakfasts made in advance, tons of variations.
• Red beans and rice - 🫘 Classic Cajun dish, served over hot rice.
• Refried beans - Easier, healthier, and tastier from scratch
• Rice pilaf - An easy side dish
• Roux - Thicken your soup/sauce/whatever
• Saffron rice - Yellow rice, but better and with real saffron.
• Sausage gravy - Easy breakfast gravy
• Semolina gnocchi - Make-ahead sheet pan semolina gnocchi
• Semolina pasta - Homemade pasta for rolling, cutting, and other tasty shapes.
• Sicilian artichokes - Sicilian stuffed artichokes and pasta (cacocciula)
• Skillet corn - Serve (or preserve) fresh corn as a sweet or savory side. 🌽
• Skillet pastas - One-pan skillet pasta variations
• Sourdough bread - Lazy sourdough bread using the discard
• Spice cake - Warm fall spices in a rich buttermilk cake
• Spiced apple blackberry jam - Holiday cheer in a jar
• Spiced lemon ham - Ditch the glaze packet, use this instead.
• Summer crab soup - Fresh summer crab and seasonal corn on the cob in a creamy soup. Goes great in a bread bowl. More of a chowder or bisque for consistency, but the family calls it soup. 🦀
• Sunday sauce - Pasta with red sauce is good any day of the week. Meat optional. 🍝
• Sweet pickles - Nana’s handwritten recipe for sweet pickles. They take about 2 weeks to make, then 6 to cure.
• Taco rice - Rice for tacos, from scratch.
• Three bean chili - As meaty (or vegetarian or vegan) as you’d like. As spicy as you want it. In the oven or on the stove top. It’s chili, don’t make it complicated.
• White beans and rice - A hearty pot of beans as spicy as you’d like, served over hot rice.
• Whole grain pancake mix - Make-ahead, shelf-stable pancake mix 🥞

Drink list

• Apple sangria - Warm fall days in a simple pitcher cocktail
• Bourbon slushy - Summer porch sipper
• Butterscotch syrup - Simple butterscotch for coffee, desserts, and more.
• Cassis sangria - Easy summer pitcher cocktail
• Fruit syrups - Simple syrup with fruits and herbs for desserts and drinks
• Infused bourbons - What to do when you try one you don’t like 🥃
• Midnight mint syrup - Dark chocolate and mint syrup for ice cream, coffee, and more.
• Simple syrups - All the simple syrups to put in teas and coffees and cocktails
• Strawberry basil tea - Summer iced tea to use up extra strawberries and fresh basil

Salad dressings

Name	Ratios
Citrus	- 1 small shallot, minced - 0.75 cup olive oil - 0.25 cup Champagne vinegar - 3 Tbsp lemon juice + 0.5 tsp zest - 2 Tbsp orange juice - salt, pepper to taste
Jam	- 2 tbsp jam - 0.25 cup acid - 0.5 cup fat - herbs, to taste
Buttermilk	- 0.5 cup buttermilk - 0.25 cup acid - 2 tsp honey - 0.25 cup fresh herbs - salt, pepper, dried herbs to taste
Maple	- 0.25 cup maple syrup - 3 tbsp apple cider vinegar - 2 tbsp olive oil - 2 tsp poppy seeds - 2 shallots, minced - 2 tsp Dijon
Spicy tahini	- 0.5 cup soy sauce - 0.5 cup tahini - 0.25 cup rice vinegar - 3 Tbsp honey - 2 Tbsp lime juice - 1 Tbsp ginger paste (or grated) - 1 Tbsp minced garlic - 1Tbsp sriracha, to taste - 1 tsp black pepper

Salad ratios

Name	Ratios
Brussels sprouts	- 10 sprouts, shaved - 1 small apple, finely diced - 0.25 cup seeds or nuts - 0.25 cup dried fruits - 0.25 cup crumbly cheese (optional)

Baking time chart

Time and temp combinations that work well.

What	Temp	Time	Notes
Bacon	400°F	30 mins	fridge, warm on skillet
Brussels sprouts	500°F	20 mins	start on skillet, flip all halves down
Pork ribs	550°F 325°F	20 mins 2 hrs	start uncovered in sheet tray cover tightly in foil to finish
Smashed potatoes	450°F	30 mins	boil first, use thin tray in oven
Any crock pot “low” meal	225°F	same as recipe	crack lid for evaporation, stir sometimes

🍳 To apply seasoning to cast iron: Put a baking sheet on the lowest rack, then preheat oven to 500°F. Apply a thin layer of vegetable oil, removing excess. Bake for an hour, then cool before storage. Repeat as necessary.

Sous vide time chart

This is all completely opinionated - just wanted to write down the combination that goes over well.

Cut	Temp	Time	Notes
Bacon	145°F / 63°C	24 ± 12 hours	finish on skillet
Beef brisket	155°F / 68°C	30 hours	add 1-2 drops liquid smoke, a pinch of pink curing salt finish in oven at 300 °F / 149 °C for 1-2 hours for bark
Beef prime rib	132°F / 55°C	6 hours	finish in oven at 425 °F / 218 °C for 10-15 minutes before serving
Beef steak (most cuts)	129°F / 54°C	2-4 hours	sear before serving
Beef tri-tip roast	134°F / 57°C	2 ± 2 hours	sear before serving
Burgers	124°F / 51°C	1.5-2 hours	finish on pan or grill
Dulce de Leche	185°F / 85°C	12 hours	1 can sweetened condensed milk, that’s it!
Egg bites	172°F / 78°C	1 hour	- 6 eggs - 0.25 cup cream cheese - 0.5 cup cheese - other mix ins
Hard boiled eggs	194°F / 90°C	20 minutes	finish in ice bath to halt cooking
Oatmeal	140°F / 60°C	overnight in 2 half-pint jars	- 0.33 cup rolled oats - 0.33 cup steel-cut oats - 0.67 cups cream or milk - 1 cup water (ish) - dried fruit, sweeteners, to taste
Poached pears or apples	176°F / 80°C	1 hour	- 2 cups white wine - 2 cups water - 1 cup maple syrup - 4 pears or apples
Pork shoulder	185°F / 85°C	12 ± 4 hours	shred, broil for 5-10 minutes at end
Salmon	120°F / 49°C	45 ± 15 minutes based on thickness	add fat and some aromatics to bag
Toasted cream	180°F / 82°C	24 hours	add pinch of baking soda per pint for browning

Stand mixer speed chart

Recommended stand mixer speed for each attachment. I lost the manuals to these years ago.

Pasta rolling set

attachment	speed
pasta roller	2
fettuccine cutter	5
spaghetti cutter	7

Pasta extruder

attachment	speed
spaghetti plate	10
bucatini plate	10
rigatoni plate	6
fusilli plate	2 - 4
large macaroni	6
small macaroni	6

Spiralizer

attachment	speed
fine blade	4
medium blade	6
slicing blade (small core)	4
slicing blade (large core)	6
peeling blade	4

Other attachments

attachment	speed
ice cream machine	STIR
food grinder	4
sausage stuffer	4
shredder/slicer (all blades)	4