A look at local food discoveries, whether it’s a particular dish or an ingredient, often with one or more recipes.
A supremely simple dish from our current fish under exploration, Palometa, served up in a love apple sauce… you know love apples, those spherical or ovoid things bursting with flavor… what do we call them these days? Oh yes, tomatoes. Fillets of palometa, cleaned and boned; ripe tomatoes, an onion, a bay leaf, a garlic… Read More Palometa Love Apples
The last few days have seen a series of odd little requests coming in from folk via the blog here, each starting off with a compliment on how useful and wonderful and life changing and mind blowing (okay maybe not quite) it is and then immediately segueing into a request. That in itself is not… Read More The Weekend Review
As promised, on to a different fish, in this case, the Palometa, oft-times here referred to as Atún de Mar del Plata, despite not being a tuna, though it is generally caught in the area around Mar del Plata. As I noted in my writeup of the fish at the link above, it’s a strong… Read More One Nutty Fish
Okay, one last recipe (for now) for pejerrey, then it’s time to give some other fish their due time in the spotlight, no? I can’t resist anything that purports to be a pizza, nature’s most perfect food. So when I saw that there’s a classic local dish called a pizza de pejerrey, I just couldn’t.… Read More A Fishy Pizza
A little look back at last week’s dinners, and quite the international crowd over the course of the week with folk from Angola (possibly our first from there), Italy, Israel, Lebanon, Argentina, Mexico, the UK, US and Canada. A good time, I believe, had by all! Started the eves off with our eggplant tonnato, once… Read More A Touch of the Piquant
No, that’s not a misspelling, I didn’t mean poached. After the last post on more local fish varieties, I decided it’s time to get back to my promise to start trying out more Argentine recipes, both classic and modern, to show off what local folk are or have done with their fish around here. I’m… Read More Pouched Fish
Picking up where I left off a few weeks ago with looking at some of the ocean fish that are available here, today we’ll hit a couple of common ones, but mostly, some that aren’t seen all that often. It’s more a function of what photos I happen to have than anything else. More to… Read More A Fish (or Eight) Less Common
All those pesky holidays out of the way it’s time to launch into the new year with fork held aloft, and we may as well plunge right in with the first week of Casa S dinners. It’s still high tourism season for those from North America, so the US and Canada folk predominated, but we… Read More Where to Begin? Right Here.