An Engineer's Perspective

Mediterranean Steak Sauce

A Greek yogurt sauce that dresses up your meat while infusing calm flavors. Can be made just before serving or a day before. This recipe will cover up to 2 lbs of thinly sliced flank steak. Ingredients Process Note 1: Recommend only adding one optional …

Mediterranean Steak Marinade

A Greek yogurt marinade that softens your meat while infusing a calm garlic flavor. Best to give this bad boy a good 24 hrs work, but you can get by in as little as 4 hrs; your steak just won’t be as good. This recipe …

Grilled Flank Steak with Garlic Sauce

This is a Mediterranean version of an old cowboy classic. Interestingly, my Dad worked as a butcher in Chicago back in the 1960’s and they’d use Flank steak for hamburger because no one would buy it. Then in the 1980’s, yuppie chefs discovered the wonders …

Hamburger Casserole

Dutch oven dish with potatoes and diced tomatoes. A quick and easy alternative to Taco Tuesday, or when the guys are coming over for poker and you’re out of ideas. Ingredients Process

Sauerkraut Casserole

Of course I cook sauerkraut casserole, I’m Polish. Normally I make a more rugged version with fresh cabbage and homemade elk sausage, but for those less adventuresome, this version is more on the dainty gourmet side. Ingredients Process Note1: for German flare, cut potatoes into …

Vegetable Casserole

This is not a made from scratch recipe, and it’s not vegetarian. Rather it’s a quick and simple dish that hearkens back to a traditional Sunday social casserole, or as they say in Minnesota, a hot dish (ya don’t-ya know). The exact distinction between a …

Mushroom Bisque

On a recent visit to Johns Hopkins University where I presented my current research, I had the most amazing bowl of mushroom bisque soup in their cafeteria and knew when I got home, I had to replicate the recipe. Bisque is traditionally a rich creamy …