Cooking with Kitch Coquette: Chicken Pho & Crispy Fried Shallots

Vietnam in June – Chicken Pho & Crispy Fried Shallots By: Kitch Coquette It all started with a Japanese novella by an author named Banana.  Well that’s not entirely true. One library shelf dedicated to what I consider to be the greatest form of pornography also had a lot to do with the recipe for this month. But before I get ahead of myself, let me give you some back-story. I have utterly... [Read more]

Cooking with Kitch Coquette: Strawberry Pie Jam

Strawberry Pie Jam By: Kitch Coquette I doubt many of you can your own homemade strawberry jam. If you are like me, you remember your mother gathering macerated fruit in a cheese cloth, which she then hung above a large aluminum pan. The juice would drip, drip, drip all day long. Around dinner time, the seeds would remain in the cheesecloth, and the lovely juice would be in the pan.  But it took all... [Read more]

Cooking with Kitch Coquette: Chocolate & Salted Caramel Matzoh Brittle

Chocolate and Salted Caramel Matzoh Brittle By: Kitch Coquette Iʼm an Irish Jew, which means I’m a walking-talking oxymoron. This year, both St. Patrickʼs day and Passover fall in March. This unfortunate overlap means I have to choose between my two heritages for this monthʼs Pin Curl article. I can either make my famous shepherd’s pie or give you a recipe from my Seder table. Turns out the... [Read more]

Drink of the Month: Irish Tea

Drink of the Month: Irish Tea Looking for a refreshing twist on the typical St. Patty’s Day cocktails?  Try this relatively healthy Irish Tea recipe, which you can make by the glass or the pitcher! What You Need: 4 Parts Sweetened Green Tea, Chilled 1 Part Jameson Irish Whiskey ½ Part Pernod Absinthe Lime Slice for garnish What You Do: Combine liquid ingredients, serve over ice in a rocks glass,... [Read more]

Cooking with Kitch Coquette: Pin-Up Pot Stickers

Pin-Up Pot Stickers By: Kitch Coquette If you are like me, you love Chinese appetizers more than the meal itself.  Unfortunately, every time you go to a Chinese restaurant, you politely agree to share an appetizer plate with your friends. Then, you have to pretend to be cool about only getting one pot sticker, when the guy next to you got two.  Aarrggh! If my dignity didn’t get in the way, I’d... [Read more]

Cooking with Kitch Coquette: Blueberry White Chocolate Chip Cookies

Blueberry White Chocolate Chip Cookies By: Kitch Coquette With just a 40 minute drive up I-75 you can leave the loud hub-bub of Dallas behind and find one of the sweetest little towns in Texas. McKinney Texas — if it weren’t for your right-wing, tea-totaling politics and lack of synagogues, I’d buy myself a quaint little home in your historic district, walk to your great restaurants and bars,... [Read more]

Cooking with Kitch Coquette – Braised Corned Beef

Braised Corned Beef in a Mustard-Molasses Glaze By: Kitch Coquette See the rest of Kitch’s holiday meal in our Winter 2012 Best of Pin Curl print issue, available here. What you need: Aluminum foil 1 packaged corned beef with spice packet included 2 tbsp mustard (you can use any type, but I prefer a brown deli mustard) 2 tbsp red wine vinegar 1/4 cup molasses What you do: Preheat oven 225-250... [Read more]

Cooking with Kitch Coquette – Bacon Mashed Potatoes

Cooking with Kitch Coquette Bacon Mashed Potatoes                   What You Need 4 extra large potatoes that are cut and boiled soft and drained 1 stick of butter 8 oz cream cheese 8 oz sour cream 2 tablespoons of heavy cream 1/2 tsp. of salt 6 slices of cooked bacon (I just cook mine in the microwave when I am out of time). Preferably a hand-held electric... [Read more]

Cooking with Kitch Coquette – Farmer’s Wife Avocado Salad

How To Be A Good Woman And Other Lessons From The Kitchen By: Kitch Coquette I was told from an early age that a good woman should have two things — the mind of a rocket scientist and the heart and fortitude of a farmer’s wife. This advice came from my mother, who was a neuro-scientist and whose father was a farmer.  I supposed I have unintentionally spent my entire adult life trying to live up... [Read more]

Cooking with Kitch Coquette – Kahlua Chocolate Pecan Pie Bars

The Wrong Way To Flirt and Other Lessons from the Kitchen by Kitch Coquette     It was the summer of 1998. I was nineteen years old, and I had just finished my first year at college. For financial reasons, I was spending the summer months waiting tables and living with my parents. After finding free-will in college and wisely putting it to good use (aka debauchery), this return home was tortuous. Funny... [Read more]