Dinner reviews from our Casa SaltShaker evenings
Continuing our series of northwestern Italian lunch classes (in which virtually none of you are enrolled, more’s the pity)… Lombardia. Milano. While this would seem to be “the” class to make a risotto, especially a classic Milanese risotto with saffron, kind of the signature of the whole area, this series follows on our basic Italian… Read More Lunch Class – Lombardia
Not my family, but, we’ve been doing a series of dinners for a group of local executives from Banco do Brasíl and one of the couples who has come to them had family in visiting for the weekend for their son’s high school graduation, and booked a private dinner. He’s headed off for my alma… Read More Family from Brasíl
Continuing this week with our five-session series of classes exploring dishes from the northwest of Italy, we touched on the cuisine of Val d’Aosta, a little known region measuring a mere 30 by 40 miles, basically in the mountains. The cuisine is hearty as befits the setting. Rye and buckwheat flour dominate the local starch… Read More From the Mountainside
“What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground- and to one another; it is either winged or it… Read More A Tale of Quail and Partridge
When you aren’t here for one of our lunchtime classes, we miss you. And you miss the fun and food! From yesterday’s Piemontese class…. Minestrone d’Asti Pollo alla Marengo Budin Freddo Gianduia You aren’t really going to miss the rest of the series are you? Next week we tackle some classics from Val d’Aosta. We… Read More A Lesson of Piemonte
A day and a half back in town and it was time to get back to work – have to pay for these jaunts to New York and other places somehow, no? Four dinners this weekend, and, I think, three dozen new happy diners. Working in a little inspiration from the trip – over the… Read More Incremental Inspirations
We’ve had just three Cinco de Mayo dinner weekends since we opened Casa SaltShaker. The first was actually our official opening night, in 2006 (we had some trial run dinners beforehand with invited guests, this was the first open to the public one). Now that first one, we actually did nothing related to the Mexican… Read More Cinco de Oh Mayo!
Okay, I promise, last dinner until this weekend’s (only one menu coming up) come up next week (by which time I’ll be posting missives from New York for a short while). I’ll keep this short. Private party, only limitation was no shellfish…. I thought I’d try a different approach again to the ratatouille tarts –… Read More Seriously? Another One?