A look at local food discoveries, whether it’s a particular dish or an ingredient, often with one or more recipes.
“When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.” – Mark Twain, author It never occurred to me that it was such an odd thing to do, roasting a watermelon. Plenty of fruits have been roasted in many a dish. There’s even an eHow entry on how to do it (though I do… Read More How I Roasted a Watermelon, and Other Stories
Just a look back at last week’s dinners. I’ve been sketching out an idea for a many-layered lasagna for several weeks now and trying out the components with each other, and it was finally time to spring it on guests. It was my favorite dish of the week, Henry hated it, I haven’t heard back… Read More A Very Peculiar Lasagna Indeed
Although in yesterday’s post I took a look back at the year as a whole, we haven’t quite finished with varied and sundry moments of December. First up, the last full week of dinners for the year – two menus, one for the 24th and 25th, another for the 26th through the 29th. Yes, six… Read More All I Want For Christmas (Week)
Oh let’s see, once again everyone out there is putting forth their end of year wrap-ups and I feel near obligated to participate. Actually, it’s kind of fun to look back and see what’s new, changed, etc. and look forward to a new year. Past editions of this were 2012, 2011, 2010, and 2007. In… Read More A Year After the Mayan Apocalypse
Two weeks of dinners in one post. A week ago, before our travails with lack of power, I was just looking ahead at the daunting task of taking on this holiday season. As usual I have trouble saying no to people who want to book their end of year holiday parties, plus once again we… Read More Catching Up On Dinners
After yesterday’s photo intensive, I’m going to keep this one mercifully short. Two private dinners, four nights of public dinners, three menus in total, and many of the dishes I’ll just link to as we’ve prepared them before, particularly the private dinners. First up, a group of six, arranged by a gentleman who was in… Read More Dinners, Public and Private
Just a few quick leftover photos from November. My goodness this year is going by quickly! A gift of bourbon balls from Kentucky based guests – shared with the table at the end of dinner and then the remainder consumed by us over the following days. I got all excited when I heard there was… Read More November, Gone
Just a look back at last week’s dinners, bringing back a few favorites, adding some tweaks, bringing in some new ideas too…. Minor changes to our smoked tomato cheesecake plate. Infused the cherry tomatoes with kombu. Replaced the dehydrated tomato crumble with a dehydrated caper crumble that adds a nice little sharp note to the… Read More Somethings Old, Somethings New