• What I Cooked This Weekend #3

    In the last couple of weeks, I discovered two awesome cooking channels and an amazing book I didn’t know about before: This weekend I made two loaves of brioche with this recipe. Turned out amazing. I used one loaf to make french toast the next morning. I also found that rabbit was available at a…

  • What I Cooked this Weekend #2

    This weekend I got my copy of the Cook’s Illustrated Vegetables cookbook. It looks awesome and I am going to be trying many recipes from it. I started making the veggie burger, which has bulgur, pinto beans, beets, basil, mustard, and a bunch of other good stuff. I didn’t have bulgur so I substituted with…

  • Smash burgers

    This is how I make my smash burgers. If I have time, I will make home-made buns (here’s the recipe that I translated to Spanish from Joshua Weissman). I make balls of meat and cook them on the griddle at high heat. I use a sturdy spatula to smash them. I add freshly cracked black…

  • Pan de Hamburguesa

    Receta original de Joshua Weissman. La version en su libro, en su website, y en su video varian un poco y las dos primeras tienen un par de errores. Las primeras dos veces use las recetas “malas” y me salieron horribles. Asi que ahora tengo la receta correcta recompilada del video en mi libro de…

  • Fish Stock

    I’ve been making beef and chicken stock for many years, but fish stock, not so much. During the past couple of weeks, I’ve been perfecting my technique. Yesterday I made an amazing stock that was so good I ended up pouring it in a glass and drinking it plain. Here’s how I made it: First,…

  • Picture Frames

    I have been making frames for almost 10 years now. I recently took it to the next level thanks to this video from Michael Alm. I bought the plans for his framing jig and his spline jig and built them a couple of months ago. I’ve built a few jigs for the same in the…

  • Spicy Peanut Sauce

    Use a mix of common sense, suggestions below, and your own taste for quantities. Makes approximately a cup of sauce: Heat up all the ingredients in a saucepan and serve. Block of Tofu with Spicy Peanut Sauce So, I made this today and it was amazing. Sautee a block of firm tofu on canola oil…

  • Woodshop Tour

    This is my second shop in our current house. It takes half of our 2-car garage. This corner of the shop is right by the garage door: There I have my old Jet dust collector. I piped it throughout the shop using sewer pipe using this post from Jay Bates as inspiration. I learned more…

  • What I Cooked This Weekend #1

    Albondigas I made albondigas (Spanish stewed meatballs) and served them as a hamburger, using homemade burger buns. Kimchi I also made a batch of kimchi, using Maangchi’s recipe (video). I used gochugaru that a friend brought me from South Korea. I used one and a half cups, and it turned out a bit too spicy.…

  • Albondigas

    Spanish meatballs. This is one of the most delicious Spanish dishes I know. My recipe is a variation mixing parts from my sister’s mother-in-law recipe, and parts from my father’s. For the meatballs: Mix everything in a bowl. Make the balls, coat them with flour, then brown them in a pan with oil. Set them…