A look at local food discoveries, whether it’s a particular dish or an ingredient, often with one or more recipes.
Just catching up on last week’s dinners – our internet has been wonky for the last two weeks, generally with service only a few hours per day, so posting has fallen by the wayside – a trio of nights packed with folk from various parts of the world, though a bit norteamericano focused (not entirely… Read More Now, Dat’s a Spicy Chicken
Somewhere in there last weekend’s dinners just didn’t get written up. I know they don’t write themselves, but there I was busy posting round-ups of last momth’s photos and didn’t even realize I hadn’t posted some of those that I should have. So, a trifle tardy, but a quick glimpse at what was served up… Read More A Range of Spice
It’s time for our monthly roundup of unused, disused, abused, and amused photos from the last 30 day lunar cycle. Not so many this time…. Art? Graffiti? Left the car parked too long in one spot? Abandonment issues? We had some last cold days that showed up in September and a baking dish full of… Read More Try to Remember the kind of September….
Although no new suggestions have come in so far, I’m moving swiftly along in The Great Sandwich Hunt in following up on the online recommendations from various local websites. And, there are some interesting suggestions out there! It’s the Canada – Uruguay connection that I don’t get. I’m a big fan, as you know, of… Read More The Great Sandwich Hunt 6
Five years ago, back in our themed dinner days, we headed off to Middle Earth to celebrate Hobbit Day 2007, the 70th anniversary of the publication of the book. You can read all about it here. Although we’ve dropped the themed approach for the majority of our dinners, sometimes there’s still an inspiration from one… Read More Returning to the Shire, 5 Years On
It was a strange weekend for us – after last weekend’s three days packed with folk from ten different countries, it seemed the winter doldrums were over. But, just three folk reserved for Thursday, none for Friday, and four for Saturday. We ended up canceling the first two, one of those folk was able to… Read More Chocolate Day
It was time for one of our recently less frequent non-pescetarian meals, and I decided to pull out a couple of dishes from my Peruvian repertoire that I’d been playing with on and off. Not for every course, in fact, three of the five were repeats of recent hits. I’m still debating, internally, this whole… Read More Liver and Giblets for All
A new class added to our vegan repertoire, Coastal Spain. One dish each from Valencia, Murcia and Andalucia. So, what did you miss? A delicious and tummy-warming olla gitana, or gypsy soup, packed with chickpeas, green beans, squash, and pears, and flavored with a sofreito of different onions, garlic, almonds, saffron, paprika and cinnamon. A… Read More Vegging out on the coast of Spain