January 11-12 Enero Sole “Causa” – Potato puree flavored with yellow chili, lemon, olive oil; sole and finely diced red onion cured in a dressing of egg, lemon, lime, Szechuan peppercorn oil, sesame oil, corn oil, salt, white pepper; sauce “vierge” emulsion – tomato, shallot, garlic, thyme, Torrontés wine vinegar, salt, white pepper, sugar, xanthan… Read More 2017 Menu #3
“The finest food is found in China. Among all nations under the heaven, only France is nearly as good as China in terms of culinary development and cooking skills. The other countries lag far behind.” – Cui Tongyue, Hua Ying Chu Shu Da Quan (Chinese-English Comprehensive Cookbook), 1910 I’m really going to town on Chinese and… Read More Chop Suey #3
January 5-6 Enero Chicken “Causa” – chilled mashed potato flavored with lime, green onion, jalapeño, and olive oil; poached chicken salad with bacon, sun-dried tomatoes, mayo of egg yolk, lime juice, sesame, szechuan peppercorn and corn oils, and mint; garnished with chopped green onions and mint. Causa de Pollo – puré frío de papas saborizado con… Read More 2017 Menu #2
Downtown Fish Haru Sushi, Carlos Pellegrini 953, Retiro – Part of a small chain of sushi shops with locations in various parts of the city. I ordered from them once way back in August 2012, but for whatever reason never wrote them up. My recollection is it was decent, but nothing special – I… Read More Bite Marks #34
I’ve decided to get back to posting writeups of our menus at Casa SaltShaker. In general, I’m going to keep them brief, just a photo and a description. Now and again, a more detailed recipe or discussion about how a dish came about. He decidido volver a publicar informes de nuestros menús de Casa SaltShaker. En… Read More 2017 Menu #1
Third Time’s the Charm? Inka Si Señor! III, Av. Scalabrini Ortiz 1227, Palermo – The original spot, #I, I’ve reviewed briefly before, and as I mentioned then, it was primarily a spot where we’d meet up with friends for pollo a las brasas, which they do quite well (Google Maps now says it’s closed, so I’ll… Read More Another Round of Peruvians
After the previous post I realized that I may as well check out the rest of the Chinese takeout/delivery spots here in the ‘hood. Some of them we’ve tried once or twice. Until late last year we always ordered from Casa Roja – they’d been our spot for nearly 10 years and we just hadn’t bothered to… Read More Chop Suey #2
Chop Suey: Americanization of zá sui, literally, “assorted pieces”, and anecdotally, deriving from a Taiwanese tradition, tsap seui, “miscellaneous leftovers”. While not giving up on pizzas and burgers and all the stuff I’ve been posting way too much about (or, can you post way too much about such things?), it struck me recently that this isn’t the way I… Read More Chop Suey #1