For those who’ve been following along, I’m back on track along the 92 bus route and checking out pizzas after my recent tangential error. First off, I thought I ought to put the route in a little perspective… which also illustrates “from above” why there were such a gap at the beginning – one side… Read More 92 bus, Stops 4 & 5
Wow, another week has passed and I’ve had zero time to spend writing. That’s not true at all, actually, I finished off the final draft of one of two books in the works – this week I’m just doing a few minor edits that have already been suggested – and then, on to the second… Read More On Cauliflower Steaks and Pork Loins
“ALMA: I don’t think I will be able to get through the summer. JOHN: You’ll get through it, Miss Alma. ALMA: How? JOHN: One day will come after another and one night will come after another till sooner or later the summer will be all through with, and then it will be fall, and you… Read More Summer and Smoke
Pretty slim pickings on the leftover photos from January. First off, a new little project that, at least for the moment, I’m having fun with. I get asked all the time where our guests at Casa S come from, so I started actually keeping track. And while it doesn’t indicate percentages, I’ve started posting a… Read More January’s Passing
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