A look at local food discoveries, whether it’s a particular dish or an ingredient, often with one or more recipes.
Continuing this week with our five-session series of classes exploring dishes from the northwest of Italy, we touched on the cuisine of Val d’Aosta, a little known region measuring a mere 30 by 40 miles, basically in the mountains. The cuisine is hearty as befits the setting. Rye and buckwheat flour dominate the local starch… Read More From the Mountainside
“What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground- and to one another; it is either winged or it… Read More A Tale of Quail and Partridge
When you aren’t here for one of our lunchtime classes, we miss you. And you miss the fun and food! From yesterday’s Piemontese class…. Minestrone d’Asti Pollo alla Marengo Budin Freddo Gianduia You aren’t really going to miss the rest of the series are you? Next week we tackle some classics from Val d’Aosta. We… Read More A Lesson of Piemonte
A day and a half back in town and it was time to get back to work – have to pay for these jaunts to New York and other places somehow, no? Four dinners this weekend, and, I think, three dozen new happy diners. Working in a little inspiration from the trip – over the… Read More Incremental Inspirations
Having called it an early night I was up bright and early, somewhere around 6 a.m., and decided to break fast in the lobby bar/cafe. More food? Yeah, I was hungry! Checking out a traditional Boston corned beef hash and eggs sounded like a great way to start the day. This was good, really quite… Read More Crossing the Charles
We’ve had just three Cinco de Mayo dinner weekends since we opened Casa SaltShaker. The first was actually our official opening night, in 2006 (we had some trial run dinners beforehand with invited guests, this was the first open to the public one). Now that first one, we actually did nothing related to the Mexican… Read More Cinco de Oh Mayo!
Okay, I promise, last dinner until this weekend’s (only one menu coming up) come up next week (by which time I’ll be posting missives from New York for a short while). I’ll keep this short. Private party, only limitation was no shellfish…. I thought I’d try a different approach again to the ratatouille tarts –… Read More Seriously? Another One?
I know, I know, it seems that the last week or so all I’m posting about is our Casa S dinners. I almost feel the need to apologize for it, but no – it’s just the way things are going for the last couple of weeks before I head to New York and Boston for… Read More I Can’t Believe It’s More Dinners