Pork Tenderloin Javanese is a quick-cooking coriander-scented mock kebab, simple enough for a weeknight but hearty enough for weekend grilling. If you’re looking for traditional Indonesian food you’ll be disappointed. Pork tenderloin isn’t especially popular among the people of Java, which is predominantly Muslim. But while the pork is certainly a Western adaptation, the recipe……
Ingredient: brown sugar
Riverbank Barbecue Baked Beans (adapted from Cooking with Regis & Kathie Lee, 1996)
For a novelty cookbook I’m getting a lot of mileage out of Cooking with Regis & Kathie Lee. I picked up the cookbook out of a sense of nostalgia for the old Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee daytime show. I’d still say the book is more fun to read than it is to……
Tomato Beef Chow Yuk with Pea Pods (Oregon, 1974, adapted)
I’m fortunate to live in an area with a large Asian population and have ready access to high-quality traditional Chinese food. And I occasionally like to tell myself that I’m somehow fancy or cultured because I can distinguish regional cuisines or appreciate cold, spiced jellyfish, but I also have a soft spot in my heart……
Vanilla-Maple Grilled Acorn Squash (adapted from Grill Every Day, 2007)
In my neck of the woods acorn squash is a winter vegetable, and winter’s not a pleasant time to grill. But after reading Diane Morgan’s Grill Every Day (2007) I was determined to take her at her word. Ms. Morgan is a Pacific Northwesterner like me – if she could do it, so could I. ……
Caffeine-Free Espresso-Cardamom Rub (adapted from Grill Every Day, 2007)
Sometime in the late 2000s the coffee-rubbed steak was a minor trend in our local restaurants, not at the steak and chop houses so much as the upscale restaurants that feel obligated to have a steak on the menu. The most common pairing was coffee and chili, usually rubbed on an inexpensive butcher’s cut like……