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Beef Wellington

by Jillian Bedell May 2, 2013

This recipe is a classic. It is savory and ridiculous and rich. You need time, but no special skill or equipment to achieve an impressive, delicious dinner, for a holiday or special occasion, or an unremarkable Thursday in May. To gild the lily, we served ours with creamed spinach and a dry vodka martini. The [...]

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Today’s Sandwich: Hot & Spicy Italian Drip Beef (Homemade)

by Malcolm Bedell March 15, 2013

Today’s sandwich is the “Hot & Spicy Italian Drip Beef.” It combines hot shredded beef and spicy peppers on a toasted sub roll with melted provolone cheese and a sidecar of spicy au jus for dipping. Notes: This is one of the easiest recipes you’re ever going to read. It’s not even really a recipe. [...]

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Chiles Rellenos con Picadillo (Poblano Chiles Stuffed with Spiced Beef)

by Malcolm Bedell March 8, 2013

When I think of chiles relleno (literally “stuffed chile”), my imagination settles immediately on the image of buckets of molten cheese covering a massive terra cotta plate, still hot from the oven. Because really, isn’t that what most chile relleno is? It’s a thinly-veiled excuse to eat an entire plate full of molten monterey jack [...]

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Beef and Ale Stew with Buttermilk Scallion Dumplings

by Jillian Bedell March 6, 2013

In other parts of the country, the hopeful are posting photos of crocuses and fledgling blossoms. In Midcoast Maine we’ve seen snow every day this week. Casual, sideways swirling, winter’s ending but not yet snow. It has not accumulated on the ground; the melt is on and frozen earth turns up with mud. The in-between [...]

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Curried Sausage Buns

by Jillian Bedell February 12, 2013

The first thing you should know about these sausage buns is that they contain zero sausage. No pork whatsoever. Sin salchicha. Totally Kosh. I’m not really sure that they qualify as buns, either. But “beef puff pastry” sounded both gross and overly alliterative. You could refer to them as meat tubes, perhaps even more accurate [...]

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How to Make “Texas Red” Chili

by Malcolm Bedell January 9, 2013

It’s important that we start with a matter of full disclosure. I’ve spent next to no time in Texas, or at least no more than the time it takes to slurp down a few oysters from Pappadeaux before I head to my next flight. I didn’t grow up eating the fabled “pot full of red,” [...]

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Chinese New Year: Crispy Orange Beef

by Malcolm Bedell January 3, 2013

Crispy orange-flavored beef (or chicken) is another staple dish from the world of picture-based Chinese takeout menus. Like General Tso’s, if the dish actually exists in China, it probably bears little resemblance to the aluminum tray filled with syrupy-sweet fried beef bits that we have grown accustomed to here in the States. It can be [...]

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Bacon & Mushroom Beef Chili

by Malcolm Bedell December 18, 2012

Chili, made well, is serious business. You can’t just throw a pound of 80/20 ground beef, a can of tomatoes, and a can of beans into a slow-cooker, wait an hour, spoon the resulting bucket of beef slurry into a bowl, and call it a day. The best chili depends on the slow, careful stacking [...]

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Beef Short Rib Chili with Beans

by Malcolm Bedell September 14, 2012

During a six month period in 2003, I found myself living as a bachelor in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Our rental broker had assured us that the area was up-and-coming, sandwiched geographically as he described it, “between Park Slope and Bay Ridge.” Those familiar with the area know that this description covers a comically large area [...]

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“American Style” Ground Beef Tacos

by Malcolm Bedell July 25, 2012

During the last years of his life, my father lived with us in our house in Mexico. It wasn’t a great leap; getting to have one last adventure was the appropriate final act for a man who had spent his life careening from one overseas exploit to the next, and I am grateful to have [...]

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