A look at local food discoveries, whether it’s a particular dish or an ingredient, often with one or more recipes.
“I believe first in the quality of ingredients, local purchasing and in cooking seasonally. I also think it’s really important for food to make sense and have a sense of place. It’s clear when a dish went through an uninformed creative process, when it hasn’t really been inspired by original, nostalgic, congruent thought. I don’t… Read More Peru with a Touch of Med
“We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.” – Winston Churchill I don’t normally participate in “blogging events”, but I do, at least on occasion, enjoy reading about them. Often they’re just silly, but there are a few out… Read More A Very Sage Chop – TGRWT # 21
“Lie there, your Highness, and I will bring you up a little feast to yourself in a few moments. There is no need for you to move until we are all ready to embark.” – from C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy, Book 5, Chronicles of Narnia It has been quite some time since… Read More Chronicles of Shawarma – Book V
“Far more obscure dishes could be art house sensations too — which makes crespéou the “Big Night” of Provençal cooking.” – Regina Schrambling, LA Times Okay, crespéou isn’t the most well-known dish of the provençal repertoire, but it’s also not completely obscure. We learned to make them when when I was in cooking school, a… Read More Very Crepe-y
“All children, except one, grow up.” – from Peter Pan, 1904, by James Matthew Barrie Apparently the thought of a Peter Pan “I don’t wanna grow up” sort of dinner scared away a few folk. There seemed to be much consternation as to just exactly what sort of things we might be serving here at… Read More Second Star to the Right…
“I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, ‘What for?’ I said, ‘I’m going to buy some sugar.’” – Stephen Wright, comedian Merengues secos are “dry meringues”, and they were on my list to practice this week. I had a lot of time spent in-house because we were… Read More Drying Out the Meringues
“Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.” – Barbara Jordan, U.S. attorney Cookie practice time, in particular masas secas de manga – small tea/mate cookies that are piped out… Read More Piping the Cookies Aboard
Totally missed posting the results of this class and skipped straight to class 9. Here, we continued on cookie work with mini-scones, frutillas, pepas and polvorones….