A look at local food discoveries, whether it’s a particular dish or an ingredient, often with one or more recipes.
Just a little bit of dining out over the last couple of weeks. As regular readers probably know, from early November until the end of the year we tend to be swamped here at Casa S with both public and private dinners, ’tis the season and all that, so I’m not getting out as much… Read More Nibbling Trio
A week of bringing back some favorite dishes, but each of them tweaked in some way – trying out new combinations. Overall, quite successful, at least as of now the only naysayers being a trio of Norwegian gen-xers who apparently found not only the food to be bland (which is weird, since during the dinner… Read More Playing with Favorites
The things I find out when I start researching into dishes and ingredients sometimes scare me. I mean, just try plugging “potato” or “cauliflower” into the Urban Dictionary, or even just Google paired with “slang”… expressions, personal descriptors – some of them vulgar, gifts, and even sexual acts (really, that? why?). Seriously, you may not… Read More Cheap and Quick: Potato and Cauliflower
After the usual personal questions about how I got here, how we got started, whether I spoke Spanish on arrival, how many nights a week… etc., the most common question I get asked is, “how do you come up with the dishes for your menus?” It’s often obvious from the way it’s asked that there’s… Read More Dinner from the pages of books…
Sounds like an anime video, no? But, it’s just a typical dinner here at Casa S…. A reprise of our recent poached veal tongue dish, with fermented brussels sprouts, roasted beets, spicy beet stem relish, tapenade, quail eggs, and a local farmer’s cheese. New soup making its appearance, based on a traditional Bolivian Chupe de… Read More Tongue, Sucking Peanuts, Tentacles
Having been a trifle more prolific last month with blog posts there are only a foursome of photos leftover from the month to do a mini-round-up. So be it. I may as well just start off with the “gifts” for the month – both from the same evening, a woman from Seattle bearing some lovely… Read More Octoberfest o’Photos
Before we get to the juanes for our main course, let’s start the day with a little Juanes, Yerbatero… …and, on to last week’s dinners, which I really ought to get written up considering we’ve already started this week’s. Our signature flounder ceviche, capped by a grilled prawn, trio of sauces – guacamole mousse; toasted… Read More Interpretation of Juanes
Just a quick photo round-up of the recent Send a Child to School fundraising event at the Australian Embassy. This year, a group of us in the puertas cerradas restaurant world were asked to participate and provide the food, and we, and several of our companions answered the call with signature hors d’oeuvres. Myself, Pablo… Read More Charity Begins at Jalapeños