The Magidow family recipe box
Also known as tigania kotopoulo, we learned this recipe at a cooking school in Athens, Greece. It’s an easy weeknight meal. I recommend serving with Greek salad and pita bread or rice. Add the paprika as you go for maximum flavor. Can also be made with pork.
Ages ago I bought some szechuan peppercorns for a recipe, and haven’t tried many recipes with them since. They’re very strange – they have what can only be described as a floral, citrisy taste, a bit like lychees (but less floral). In this dish, based loosely on authentic szechuan chicken recipes, they lend a really […]
I received a request to share my fried rice recipe, written for a kitchen beginner. There are a lot of subtleties for making awesome fried rice, which would make it a lot easier to teach in-person; this step-by-step is the next best thing. I’m going to shout a bit in this post, but listen to […]
I don’t know what to call this one. It’s really just a good stir-fry, based on one they made on America’s Test Kitchen. You can use any meat, really, and any vegetables, so it’s hard to pin down. Here’s how I made this batch. I used chicken thighs, but the original recipe was for beef […]
This recipe was an improvised fusion between Szechuan spices, Korean japchae technique, and some rice noodles I had sitting around. I raided my cupboard and crisper for the ingredients and came up with deliciousness. It’s another dish that uses Chili Black Bean Sauce, like Ma Po Tofu. (Amusingly, the last post in the blog features […]
I always keep a turkey kielbasa on hand for weeknight desperation dinners. The turkey kielbasa aren’t as greasy as the regular ones, and they keep forever in the fridge or freezer. This recipe is more to serve as inspiration than as something to follow in great detail. You can add the noodles to the pan […]
Stir Fried Leftover Salad in Black Bean Garlic Sauce (If I had known how delicious this was I would have taken a picture) Saute in un-flavored oil: Onion, carrot sticks, green vegetables, pre-soaked shiitake mushrooms Stir in a heaping spoon of Black Bean Garlic Sauce, combine well Add the leftover salad that didn’t get dressing […]
This recipe is great for when you want something really nice and simple, especially in hot weather. It’s adapted from the “Sundays at the Moosewood” cookbook, where it’s called Tauhu Goreng Kechap. The sauce is definitely more than the sum of its parts – I really like it. Sauce:2/3 light soy sauce3-4 cloves garlic2 Tbsp […]
This is the 100th post on the blog! Good work, family–I think we’ve created something wonderful here. Keep on postin’! Now that I’m writing this 100th post, I feel like I should commemorate it with some kind of special recipe, but this is just what I made for dinner tonight. In the end I guess […]
An ode to rice noodles! Today I had fun exploring the international grocery stores in Rochester. Rice and Spice, an Indian place, is great and I got excellent service there. The shopkeeper helped me find everything on my list and even gave me some recipes. The Asian Food Store was really seedy and kind of […]