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Perfect Southern Fried Chicken – The Ultimate Recipe

Johan Johansen — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 06:11:53 +0000

If I asked you about your favorite fried food guilty pleasure (and you couldn’t say French fries as we’ve already covered those), what would you say? For a lot of people that I’ve talked to, myself included by the way, the answer fell promptly: Southern Fried Chicken! Juicy, tender chicken, breaded in flour, dusted [...]

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Perfect Butter Chicken (Murgh Makhani) Recipe – An Indian Food Classic

Johan Johansen — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 06:38:22 +0000

Butter Chicken, to me, is Indian food perfected! Fall-apart tender bits of perfectly seasoned, marinated chicken swimming in a rich, deep tomato-based sauce packed with spices and laced with cream, butter and all other things that do the body good. Butter Chicken in all her beautiful glory… In this case from one of my favorite [...]

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Sauce Demi-Glace Recipe: How To Make The Ultimate Classic French Sauce

Johan Johansen — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 07:02:48 +0000

Ah, Sauce Demi-Glace… The perfect beefy sauce! A most treasured, often misunderstood curiosity of the French sauce kitchen – an important part of French culinary history that is mastered by few but cherished by many lovers of French haute cuisine. Sauce Demi-Glace atop a beautiful piece of Rib Eye Steak… Life on earth is good! Today [...]

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Sauce Espagnole Recipe: How to make Escoffier’s Famous Mother Sauce

Johan Johansen — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 07:30:39 +0000

In today’s blog post, we explore a cornerstone of the French kitchen: Today we talk sauce. More to the point, we talk Sauce Espagnole – a classic brown sauce and one of the famous mother sauces of the French kitchen. Sauce Espagnole – A mother of a sauce! Sauce Espagnole – or Spanish Sauce if [...]

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Perfect Homemade beef stock: Your go-to recipe for awesome beef stock!

Johan Johansen — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 07:31:03 +0000

Homemade beef stock is about the most beautiful and rewarding culinary project you will ever undertake…

“There is something almost meditative about reducing love into a stock” said friend, fellow blogger and out-doorsy cooking wizard Jakob "Gourmensch" Nusbaum once. And he’s right, you know?

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