by perfectlittlebites | Jan 25, 2015 | Assorted, Beef, chef, Cooking, creativity, culinary, Food, hotchicken, nashville, Photography, restaurant, Spicy
This is a combination of recipes and ideas. Taking bits and pieces of things I’ve seen, I made what might be my new favorite dish. The Hot Prime Rib is what happens when you give country fried steak the Nashville hot chicken treatment. As with many recipes,...
by perfectlittlebites | Sep 8, 2014 | Assorted, Cooking, Deli, Food, Gardening, health, Jewish, Nutrition, Photography, Recipe, restaurant, Spicy
Always the bridesmaid, chopped liver is an under appreciated dish. I’m not Jewish, and didn’t grow up eating it, yet it’s something I crave deeply. A decade ago I spent a few years running a couple of kosher kitchens. Unfamiliar to me at the time,...
by perfectlittlebites | Aug 29, 2014 | Gardening, Nutrition, Photography, restaurant, Spicy, vegetarian
I know I’m not the first person to make peanut hummus. Hugh Acheson has a recipe in his book A New Turn in the South, which is one of my favorite cookbooks. But that wasn’t the inspiration for this recipe. Most recipes have you making traditional boiled...
by perfectlittlebites | Jul 13, 2014 | Chinese, Cooking, Food, Gardening, health, Nutrition, Photography, Recipe, restaurant, Sichuan, Spicy
Once we made the leap from tofu to chicken wings, it was a short hop to frog’s legs. The sauce recipe can be found here. I only wish we weren’t shorted scallions, so we used chives. It was still sticky, spicy deliciousness.
by perfectlittlebites | Jul 8, 2014 | Chinese, Cooking, Food, health, Nutrition, Photography, Recipe, restaurant, Sichuan, Spicy
Ever since having Mapo Tofu a few months ago, I’ve been on a kick. It’s something I had eaten at restaurants, but had never made at home. After eating this a few times, I was thinking how good this would be on wings. I’m pretty sure I saw that on a menu somewhere. I...
