Dinner reviews from our Casa SaltShaker evenings
Well, it seems it’s finally happened. Sort of. Maybe. Not sure. President Fernandez extended the quarantine until September 20th. That’s the quarantine that two weeks ago he said no longer existed and that he was going to trust to people’s sense of responsibility to properly socially distance, wear masks, etc. Borders are still closed, no… Read More Qreole Steaks
We’re still in limbo on the whole quarantine or social isolation thing here. A lot of, too many, people have taken it as license to just drop it all and start partying, dinner-ing, walking around in the streets without masks, and despite admonitions from the government about penalties for doing so, it appears little, if… Read More Qream of Mushroom Soup
For those who don’t follow us on Instagram or Facebook, you may not be aware that we, like many restaurants here, have given ourselves over to the world of delivery. Obviously, given our traditional sorts of five course meals with wine, around a communal table, that’s a very different thing than we’re used to. Mostly… Read More From Our Qasa to Yours
I’m going straight to the food this time, since I gave you a quarantine update just two days ago. So let’s start with the question I often get asked when talking about this cut of pork, matambrito, just what is it? The best translation I could give you is something along the lines of a sort… Read More Qasa SaltShaker – Braised Pork Flank
Well, we’re back into phase one of “recovery” as of yesterday. We got back our one hour a day exercise privileges… sort of. Alternate days, depending on our national ID number, though extended hours – now from 6pm until 10am. And a lot more businesses have been allowed to re-open. Food service still limited to… Read More Qasa SaltShaker – Lamb Ossobuco
Day 115. Yup, we’re still here in quarantine. Is the renewed lockdown working? Probably too soon to be sure, though the daily rise in cases, while it continues, seems to be slowing, and the mortality rate is definitely declining, so there’s hope. As scheduled, we have another nine days, until next Friday – I have… Read More Qasa SaltShaker – Pan Chapla
“The invention of goulash began with one of the humblest groups in Hungarian society, the cowherds, according to the distinguished Hungarian ethnologist Eszter Kisbán. Groups of five or six single men, with their dogs and a couple of horses to pull their supply cart, spent months or even a year at a time out on… Read More Qasa SaltShaker – Goulash
Yes, this Quarantine is going to go on forever. Here we are, two weeks into being allowed to go out in the evenings for a walkabout, finally, at the point we were almost three months into it, for a bit of exercise. The city’s mayor just extended the hours by two to give us a… Read More Qasa SaltShaker – Vincisgrassi