A look at local food discoveries, whether it’s a particular dish or an ingredient, often with one or more recipes.
Maybe it was eating at a couple of French restaurants during the whirlwind review series, but somewhere in there I found myself thinking a bit French. Not entirely, mind you but a bit, and so I went with it in the planning of this last week’s menu. I started leafing through the pages of one… Read More Some Southern French Inspiration
Just a little side trip back here to home in the midst of all this eating out (30 restaurant visits in just over two weeks), to look at the limited Casa S dinners that we had. With Henry away and the friend who in the past has filled in for him unavailable, I kept it… Read More Tangent: Casa SaltShaker
I’m starting to think that as our Casa S cookbook is coming together, and it really is coming together (in fact, while Henry is away in Peru the coming two weeks I’m taking a few days to do a short trip and then spending about ten days working on finishing it up), that I’m going… Read More Of Corn Cheesecake & Avocado Pie
Just a quick look at this past weekend’s Abunda (“abounds”) food festival up in Vicente Lopez, just north of the city limits. Set along the Paseo de la Costa it was a lovely place for an outdoor food fest and attracted a whole lotta folk. I stayed for awhile, wandered around, checked out some of… Read More Gastronomy Festival Abounds
A series of private parties and a week of dinners, and most of it went quite well. But there was that last night of last week. One of the questions I often get asked is something like, “what do you do when a night doesn’t go well?” or “do you ever have nights where the… Read More Spiraling around the Dinner Table
Just time for another little mini roundup of dining out and dining in, actually, mostly dining in. And then I have a couple of full reviews coming down the ‘pike, so to speak. About five years ago one of the local sommeliers that I got to know casually back when I was participating in the… Read More Four Meals, Just Me in Common
Roundup of last week’s dinners, with two new sauces (and dishes) coming on strong, lots of compliments on both! Just a replating of our vegetables “a la tahitienne” (roasted garlic and coconut vinaigrette), spread out a bit on a plate rather than in a sundae cup. One night gave a shot at some savory coconut… Read More New Sauces are a Hit
Last week’s dinners were all about the fish – a couple of new dishes I’ve been working on. And, some tweaks to the other plates as well. Our ratatouille galette with polenta crust – changing up the garnishing a bit with some mixed sprouts and a goat cheese and roasted pepper puree, and a mixed… Read More A Couple of Plates of Fish