A Hungry Bear

braised beef short ribs

I’ve cooked short ribs before but knew I must have been missing something. They were fatty and chewy when I made them - if this was the essence of short ribs, why would they keep turning up on the menus of some of the best restaurants I’ve been to lately? I decided to give it [...]

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horseradish crusted roast beef

This isn’t what I had for Christmas dinner this year, but if I wasn’t busy having the world’s most perfect Christmas dinner (an updated version of the classic Italian 7 Fishes dinner - instead of smelts and octopus and other dried salted versions of fish, try broiled lobster tails, crab cakes, crab legs, fried prawns… [...]

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watercress, apple and horseradish salad

I made this salad to accompany the walnut-crusted tilapia, which is a loose interpretation of a recipe I found on foodnetwork.com. I tend to find a combination of things I like in a salad and then get stuck in a rut (I was recently reminded by the comment “oh, caesar again?”). So this [...]

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