Cooking & Recipes Circle
Delicious Curry Noodle Salad
This Noodle Salad recipe is always a winner, especially with barbeques. Although it has a good dose of curry powder, you may also add a few drops of Tobasco sauce if you wish. The taste is so finely balanced that it is neither too sweet nor too tangy and also appeals to the taste of…
Cooking
I really, really, wanted to learn how to cook so I decided to learn by doing with the movies and menus cookbook. The honey cakes turned out OK I guess, but I really want to cook my way through a cookbook, and doing that while watching gladiator seems to be the way to go. I…
Saucy!
So, something I did while I was away from ODland was make my own pasta sauce. I tend to make pasta and sauce when I'm really short on cash, simply because it's cheap. I decided to try making my own pasta sauce because a) I have a slow cooker and should be able to make…
50 Shades of Rosé…
Last night we drank a bottle of 2017 Bermejo Listán Negro Rosado from Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. I can only describe this as a Rosé that drinks like a Red. Such wonderful complexity, nuance and balance - with a unique minerality from the volcanic soil. The environment there means that di...
It’s like being kissed by a lusty mermaid…
You can keep the necessities; it's the luxuries I cannot live without! Planning for our August Champagne & Caviar event, I was on the phone yesterday with the producer of the Osetra caviar. They offered me a wholesale account, which I accepted immediately. 1,000 grams (about 34 oz.) of Cla...
An afternoon of Global Flavors…
We had a lovely event on Sunday, the theme being Global Flavors. The chef learned her craft by working in kitchens and reading cookbooks - no formal culinary training whatsoever. She supports my theory that apprenticeships hold much more value than "formal" education in many fields. Learning b...
TOTW20: Three foods you would take to a desert island…
This is a tough one. How warm does it get on this hypothetical island? I'm a seasonal diner, so if the temperatures are really high I tend towards lighter fare. But perhaps I'm over-thinking this? #1. Cassoulet! Beans, sausage, pork, duck confit, onions, garlic, tomato, etc. All wonderful t...
Springtime in NYC…
As I awoke to snow falling this morning at 6:00AM, it certainly doesn't feel like Spring. Or April, for that matter. Especially when it's a lovely 72°F in North Carolina. At least I am looking forward to a cassoulet on Wednesday at a little wine bar & bistro on 33rd Street. Yesterday's fli...
TOTW12: My food epiphany at 8 – Cassoulet…
"Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is a 300-pound blocking back who has been splitting firewood nonstop for the last twelve hours on a subzero day in Manitoba." – Julia Child Cassoulet is one of those dishe...
Busy, busy, busy…
Well, we survived a dinner party of 18 on Friday night, followed by a Valpolicella wine tasting Saturday afternoon. The weather has been chilly and damp, so I am looking forward to getting to Miami on Wednesday, as it is 30°F warmer there at the moment! That enjoyment will be short-lived, as ea...