Comments on: Henry Rocks the Casa https://www.saltshaker.net/20060730/henry-rocks-the-casa Casting a little flavor (and a few aspersions) on the world of food, drink, and life Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:38:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: Hello Dalai https://www.saltshaker.net/20060730/henry-rocks-the-casa#comment-212755 Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:38:25 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/20060730/henry-rocks-the-casa#comment-212755 […] Casa SaltShaker to see the different cultural variations on slow cooked lamb stews, from French, to Peruvian, to more French, and on to a third French version, Tex-Mex, Pakistani, Kashmiri… actually, […]

]]> By: SaltShaker » Blog Archive » Passion… Fruit… https://www.saltshaker.net/20060730/henry-rocks-the-casa#comment-108669 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:26:32 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/20060730/henry-rocks-the-casa#comment-108669 […] mixed Latin American. A tasty causa topped with a chicken salad instead of tuna salad and a little salsa ocopa on the side, a slightly and strangely bitter creamed soup of zucchini and zucchini flowers, simple […]

]]> By: SaltShaker » Blog Archive » Trying Times in the Peruvian Kitchen https://www.saltshaker.net/20060730/henry-rocks-the-casa#comment-7388 Mon, 20 Nov 2006 14:57:15 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/20060730/henry-rocks-the-casa#comment-7388 […] Buenos Aires – I know I have trouble having someone else in “my kitchen” – even though it’s “our kitchen”. In general, Henry and I work well together in the kitchen when he’s preparing something Peruvian and showing me, more or less, how to make it. And when we’re making things just for ourselves and friends, his, well, lackadaisical approach to things is no big deal, but I remembered from our first Peruvian dinner how last minute and panicked everything was for lack of planning. So I really tried to gently nudge him to get things done in advance. On the eve before the dinner he casually let slip that he hadn’t bothered yet to go out to Liniers and buy all the various special ingredients needed, so I’d have to go in the morning… that started things on a bit of a downslide. WE went the following morning, over his protests of being tired, got everything purchased, and headed back in to cook. Things being a little tense, he asked me to leave him alone in the kitchen for a bit, and I needed a bit of a walk, so I headed out for an hour… only to return and find a note from him that he’d gone to meet some friends at the University and would be back later. Nothing had been started… […]

]]> By: Paz https://www.saltshaker.net/20060730/henry-rocks-the-casa#comment-916 Mon, 31 Jul 2006 18:15:25 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/20060730/henry-rocks-the-casa#comment-916 Everything looks terrific. I’ve never seen purple corn before.

Paz

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