A look at local food discoveries, whether it’s a particular dish or an ingredient, often with one or more recipes.
Buenos Aires – Sometimes you look in the refrigerator and realize you have all the ingredients to make something fun. You’re not quite sure how they all got there. You picked up a couple of peppers at the market one day and stuck them in the vegetable drawer. There’s leftover celery from making celery sauce… Read More Kung Pao Revisited
Buenos Aires – Sometimes you just get an urge for something. For me, this morning, it was celery. I don’t know, maybe my body was craving fiber. Regardless, I popped down to the corner and bought myself a nice head of celery. (I have to work on my quantity words, I thought I asked for… Read More An Urge for Celery
New York City – It’s hard to believe that I’ve been in New York for a full week and haven’t gotten out for a bagel! Maybe I wasn’t missing them as much as I thought I was. But I found myself in the East Village this morning and decided to stop in at an old… Read More The Real McCoy
New York City – Today was a day of wandering around. John and I headed down to the Saturday Greenmarket at Union Square so he could do his weekly restock. For those who’ve never been, Union Square is a mediocre park located in the center of town, bordered by the various parts of Greenwich Village,… Read More Greenmarket Porn
Villazón, Bolivia – Following on this morning’s rant, as I said, a separate posting on my food experiences during my weekend travels (travails?). First off, most of the food on the trip was either brought along or sold by vendors who got on the bus at various stops (sandwiches and such), or at roadside cafeterias… Read More Northern Exposure
Buenos Aires – Having missed my annual 4th of July picnic, and Monday having been Labor Day, and once again having missed my picnic, I decided on an en casa picnic. Plus, I’d promised my friend Michael that one of these days I’d make him some fried chicken – something impossible to find here. Pollo… Read More Day of Labor
Buenos Aires – Okay, the title doesn’t really mean anything, at least the spider part, I just liked the play on the movie title. I’m giving another shot at a dinner party tonight. Rather than make one massive posting, I thought I’d break it into pieces. Since yesterday was Labor Day in the U.S. (here… Read More Kiss of the Spider Lemon
Buenos Aires – No, not another adventure like last week’s cyclone. I was around the corner yesterday at the fish market looking for something that looked good for dinner. I’m still not up on all my local names for fish, so I tend to pick by looks alone. There were these beautiful long filets of… Read More Shark!