Category Archives: Side Dishes

Simple Green Beans

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Happy New Year!

Now that I think about it, posting a vegetable recipe to bring in the new year may be misleading. I haven’t made any naive resolutions to lose X number of pounds, consume less calories, or eat more greens. If you have that’s great and hopefully this recipe is something that helps you with that, but I’ve got other goals for 2015. Read the rest of this entry

Karela (Bitter Melon/Gourd)

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I’m starting to run out of optimal grilling days. I wanted to cook outside this weekend but the second I stepped out the door to clean the grill it started to rain. Ah, well. I think some posts on grilling in the rain and snow are in my future.

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Instead, I turned my culinary eye to something a little exotic (at least to us here in middle America). Karela or Bitter Melon. If you are going to do this be aware (but never afraid!) that no matter how you cook it, there will always be an underlying bitterness to the dish. The goal here is to minimize the bitter flavor through salting and cover up take your mind off that bitterness with other flavor components – I did sweet & spicy. Read the rest of this entry