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.
Mix lists
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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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 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 pastas - One-pan skillet pasta variations
- 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.
- 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 |
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 |
| 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 |
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