Dinner reviews from our Casa SaltShaker evenings
Checking in on last week’s dinners including a private party celebrating the birthday of a recent (December) customer with a group of her friends. We also had a nice mix of folk from all parts of the world over last week. Our little “where from?” map is filling in for the month of February. The… Read More Oh the Chickens We Will Eat
Although it wasn’t intentional, looking at the photos from last week’s dinners it seems I was on a yellow kick. Maybe I was low on Vitamin A or something and my subconscious was crying out for attention. Now, last week I mentioned that I was going to try a new technique or ingredient each week,… Read More Dinner in Yellow
Wow, another week has passed and I’ve had zero time to spend writing. That’s not true at all, actually, I finished off the final draft of one of two books in the works – this week I’m just doing a few minor edits that have already been suggested – and then, on to the second… Read More On Cauliflower Steaks and Pork Loins
“ALMA: I don’t think I will be able to get through the summer. JOHN: You’ll get through it, Miss Alma. ALMA: How? JOHN: One day will come after another and one night will come after another till sooner or later the summer will be all through with, and then it will be fall, and you… Read More Summer and Smoke
Pretty slim pickings on the leftover photos from January. First off, a new little project that, at least for the moment, I’m having fun with. I get asked all the time where our guests at Casa S come from, so I started actually keeping track. And while it doesn’t indicate percentages, I’ve started posting a… Read More January’s Passing
A supremely simple dish from our current fish under exploration, Palometa, served up in a love apple sauce… you know love apples, those spherical or ovoid things bursting with flavor… what do we call them these days? Oh yes, tomatoes. Fillets of palometa, cleaned and boned; ripe tomatoes, an onion, a bay leaf, a garlic… Read More Palometa Love Apples
The last few days have seen a series of odd little requests coming in from folk via the blog here, each starting off with a compliment on how useful and wonderful and life changing and mind blowing (okay maybe not quite) it is and then immediately segueing into a request. That in itself is not… Read More The Weekend Review
A little look back at last week’s dinners, and quite the international crowd over the course of the week with folk from Angola (possibly our first from there), Italy, Israel, Lebanon, Argentina, Mexico, the UK, US and Canada. A good time, I believe, had by all! Started the eves off with our eggplant tonnato, once… Read More A Touch of the Piquant