A look at local food discoveries, whether it’s a particular dish or an ingredient, often with one or more recipes.
I mentioned awhile back that I’ve reached the point where I feel like we have enough solid recipes on file that I don’t need to be experimenting with new dishes for the majority of courses every week and that I was going to start focusing on one at a time. That sort of went by… Read More Rethinking “Spicy Red”
As usual, it’s time for that end of the month pick-me-up of sharing photos. I didn’t do it for last month because, simply, there were way too many of them – I have more than a thousand photos on disc from vacation and obviously didn’t use even a two digit percentage of them in my… Read More A Not Particularly August August
Wrapping up our four week look back at four weeks of vacation, inspirations from La Paz…. Given that most of what I ate tended to be casual, almost street food, I had to be, first, more selective, and second, more, let’s say, stretchy. Some of these are probably a reach from where they started, but… Read More And, the La Paz Inspirations
Wrapping up our look back at Peru with inspirations from Lima, last weekend’s dinners brought a bit of heat to the table. We started off the evening with a cocktail of pisco, szechuan pepper infused sugar syrup, and fresh orange and lime juices. From there, we began with a dish you’ve seen before here… Our… Read More Lima, Revisited
Continuing with our little vacation remix cycle, this last weekend we hit the north of Peru with Trujillo and Calamarca taking center stage. There was less new here, given that I’ve been to that part of Peru several times now, and of course, Henry grew up there, so it’s ingrained into his soul. But it… Read More Trujillo, Remastered
I wasn’t back 24 hours before I was in the kitchen, cooking up a reinterpreted dinner of all the various things that we encountered while in Iquitos, Peru last month. In fact, that’s going to be the sort of theme of the next few weeks – a redux from Iquitos, Trujillo and Calamarca, Lima, and… Read More Iquitos, Remixed
I’m not going to do little mini restaurant reviews of everywhere I ate, though I will mention where I ate things – I thought it might be more interesting overall to just look at the kind of things I ate while in La Paz. Most of it was traditional, but some was a bit more… Read More La Paz Eats
Part of why I’d planned two days in Lima before moving on to La Paz was that the young man who used to work for us that I mentioned in the beginning of this series of vacation posts, whose mom has a restaurant in Lima, was going to be in town helping his mom rework… Read More The Surquillo Markets