I’m beginning to feel like we’re eating nothing but Chinese and Peruvian food. And I know you’ve barely had time to digest yesterday’s dumpling post. But then again, we like both, and both are probably, in general, healthier options than burgers and pizza. Still, I’m not giving those up – they’ll just be more sporadic.… Read More Peruvians, Near & Far
More dumplings, and scattered across the city this time! I exhausted the Recoleta spots in the last post. I did try to go out one day on a dumpling diving adventure with a friend. We’d marked off a map that covered six Chinese spots in the San Nicolas barrio – the first one was gone,… Read More Chop Suey #5
January 31 Enero – February 3 Febrero 2017 Sea Bass in “Chili Water” – Sea bass cut in thin strips, marinated for 15-20 minutes in a puree of lime juice, cucumber, jalapeño, cilantro, mint, onion, salt; cucumber ribbons; fine dice of avocado, red onion, piri-piri chilies; cilantro and mint leaves. Aguachile de Róbalo – Róbalo… Read More 2017 Menu #5
“The Chinese food arrives. Delicious saliva fills his mouth. He really hasn’t had any since Texas. He loves this food that contains no disgusting proofs of slain animals, a bloody slab of cow haunch, a hen’s sinewy skeleton; these ghosts have been minced and destroyed and painlessly merged with the shapes of insensate vegetables, plump… Read More Chop Suey #4
I haven’t forgotten this project, it just got stuck on a different burner – a lot of my cooking stuff has gone that way over the last few months since we haven’t had gas (5 months now). Cooking on hot plates is getting really “old”. When I was growing up, Belarus was called Byelorussia, or “White Russia”… Read More The Bread & Soup Project #17 – Belarus
[I realized that this post was still sitting in my “Drafts” folder and I’d never published it. So, three weeks late, but what the heck, my look back at last year.] 2016 was a year that we spent a bit more time traveling than past years. Or, at the least, to new places, and/or traveling… Read More 2016 in the Rear View Mirror
January 13-17 Enero Sandperch Ceviche with Passionfruit & Rocoto – Fresh Brazilian Sandperch (one night Sole when there was no Sandperch available) cured in a puree of lemon and lime juice, passionfruit pulp, rocoto chilies, olive oil, salt and white pepper; served on a radicchio leaf and topped with red onions, limo chilies and chives;… Read More 2017 Menu #4
What do we have for you so far this month? Bagel sandwiches, a burger, Venezuelan/Mexican street food, and a casual Peruvian lunch spot. Ess-a-Bagel My Bagel, Azcuénaga 758, Once – The idea here is apparently a “New York style bagel shop”, with healthy food. While not an oxymoron, those aren’t synonymous. What it does… Read More Bite Marks #35