My kitchen is lucky. Lucky to have good family and good friends at the table regularly. And lucky that quality and unusual ingredients frequently appear in it. So thank you to those who have made my kitchen so lucky. You know who you are. I’m so lucky to have a lucky kitchen.
Fire-Roasted Red Pepper and Eggplant
Fire roasted red-pepper – that should be good, no? And eggplant? I made a red pepper dip recently from a jarred purchased product that turned our really well, and immediately wanted to try it from scratch. My idea was to fire-roast them [cause anything cooked over wood embers tastes better, no?], bag them, and pull them out when the opportunity … Read More
The poster child for what you DON’T want your kitchen to look like.
‘Oh, we’ll just knock out this wall’, says I. ‘And move this over here, and that over there!’. Idiot. I’m glad I was that naive, as if I knew what I was getting myself [and many close family and friends] into, I likely wouldn’t have tackled such a reno. But now, my kitchen is taking shape. Countertops were installed today. … Read More
I am not dead
I’m just sore. And tired. Renovations are energy-consuming, so unfortunately, my blog is collecting dust. In the world I’m living in, that’d be gyprock dust.
RIP, Desktop
Sometimes, computers die. A few days ago was my desktop’s time. Happily, unlike with other losses in life, a replacement is in the mail and should ease my pain shortly.
Gloria is right…and Slovenia
I’m not sure where this stuff has been all my life. Peppers, eggplant, hot peppers, oil, sugar, salt, spices. It has a rich depth of flavor that is deceiving for something called ‘vegetable spread’. Who came up with that name, anyway? It makes me think it should have carrots, tomatoes, potatoes, peas, and some lettuce or something. Oddly, this popular … Read More
Things to do when windchill is into the -40’s
bake chocolate chip cookies, share with your daughter share a big breakfast with your wife bake a chocolate-espresso swirl cheesecake
Some pasta deserves to be thrown in the bin.
If I had to choose a favorite pasta, it would quite easily be spaghetti. It could be the meatballs. The carbonara. The meat sauce. And I think it has a lot to do with texture. If I had to choose a least favorite pasta, it would most certainly be spaghettini. It tries to be like spaghetti – tricks you into … Read More
Pouting About Christmas Dinner
Despite the baby-in-hospital incident, and slightly ignoring the fact that we may have caught her flu and that she was contagious, we proceeded with plans for Christmas dinner. We thought we’d try to make the best of it. First course: lemongrass poached wild sockeye salmon with enoki and shitake, paired with a modest prosecco. Second course: a game liver paté … Read More
Kids
On the left, me circa 1980. Such a magnificent tower. On the right, my daughter, today, busted after climbing into grandma’s canned goods cupboard.