Tiny Test Kitchen

Marinating is similar to brining (which I believe my love of is well documented), both add flavor to the meat but a marinade is more concerned with tenderizing the meat rather than adding moisture.  This recipe takes a slightly tougher skirt steak and makes it tender, delicious and more-ish.  At a push I would say […]

For me, summer can be ‘summed’ up by a watermelon. Watermelon is the epitome of seasonal fruit. The rest of the year seems colder and lonelier without having the happy red and green crescents in the produce aisle. So a couple of weeks ago when it first began feeling like summer, I jumped the gun […]

Last week I posted photos and a recipe for a brine for delicious pork chops. Given the immense size of the chops (Fred Flinstone would have been sated!), the hubby and I could only finish half of our chops. This left us with a cup and a bit of leftover, tender and juicy pork, perfect […]

As anyone who has read this blog from the beginning knows, I love anything brined and I adore pork, which means that I am downright lusty when it comes to brined pork. I have already posted a recipe for brined pork tenderloin, but for a while now, one of good friends and neighbors has raved […]

As you may have gathered, I am more than slightly obsessed with Italian food and I also love the combination of veal, pork and beef. With those two things in mind, I often make this lasagne. The ragu I make is pretty old World, from the fresh herbs I use to the mixture of the […]

I thought that I would post this just in time for Memorial Day and also as, and I say this with a super straight face… tomorrow is National Hamburger Day! I really should not laugh as hamburgers are one of my favorite, favorite food groups (that’s right, I think of them as a food group […]

As everyone who regularly reads this blog knows, I absolutely hate to waste food! Everything that can be salvaged from a meal served in my kitchen, will be salvaged. As I made Tuesday’s Thai Red Curry for just my husband and myself I had about a third of it leftover (I should have had half […]

As I have mentioned before, one of the prerequisites to being English is that you must love curry, and if you don’t I am not quite sure what to do with you! This usually refers to what most people think of as “Indian” curry; for me it covers all manners of curry. In fact, I […]

These tarts are one of my go-to’s. I always have puff pastry in the freezer; it has so many uses that it is always best to keep it on hand (lids of pies and stews, the base for this tart, palmiers, even cutting it into strips and sprinkling with a little sugar and cinnamon makes […]

Ever since I was little my parents have tried to broaden my palate and make sure that I would not turn out to be a fussy eater. And for the most part, that has been the case; there are few things that I will not eat or at least try. Growing up I had a […]