A look at local food discoveries, whether it’s a particular dish or an ingredient, often with one or more recipes.
I’m not going to make any excuses for the long gap since the last entry in this project a year ago at the start of the quarantine. I just lost track. I do have good intentions to get back on with it, but, who knows? Maybe I’ll still be doing this 30 years from now when… Read More The Bread & Soup Project #32 – Cambodia
It’s inexplicable to me that over the near sixteen years you all have been following my adventures in both restaurant and kitchen that I’ve never written up our version of one of the most classic dishes of Peruvian chifa cooking. Yes, I’m talking about the arroz chaufa, or fried rice, the name taken from the Chinese chao fan,… Read More Our Casa’s Chaufa
Just a look back at this month and home-eats, some of which were the products of online classes that I’m offering now! This is not, by any remote stretch, all we ate this month at home, just the ones that for one moment stood out long enough for me to snap a photo and think… Read More February Fry-Ups
Years ago I encountered a classic sausage from a bit north of Paris, the Andouillettes d’Amiens. In its commercial form, it’s made much like a traditional sausage, stuffed into a casing, and has an interesting mix of both ground and coarsely chopped pork, giving a unique texture. Home cooks often make the same sausage sans casing,… Read More It’s Raining Meatballs
Now that we have a full-on kitchen again, we’re back to offering food on the weekends for delivery or pickup. Current plan is to offer an appetizer of some sort, plus two main courses, and at times, a dessert. We’ve got two weekends under our belt so far, and I thought I’d present one of… Read More Steak ‘n Onions
I have a fascination with various Asian cooking shows. And, more recently, some of the anime ones, which tend towards competitions, but generally just feel less antagonist than live shows because… well… cartoons. I started watching a fairly well known one, Food Wars: Shokugeki No Soma, a Japanese one, set in the nation’s most prestigious… Read More Peculiar Pastas #10
At the beginning of each year, I do a writeup of the past one – usually a look at four areas – Casa SaltShaker, Eating Out, Vacations, and Cooking at Home. I take a look at the high points and low points. It often takes me days of figuring it all out. 2020 didn’t take… Read More Should I Even…
Fermenting things has always been a fascination of mine, be it wine, beer, pickles, or anything else. My last delivery from our vegetable supplier included a bag of slightly older bell peppers that were getting to that wrinkly stage, just with the message, “rather than throw these out, figured you might want them for something”.… Read More Saved by the Bell