Slicing a sliver of delicioso. Traditional Spanish breakfast: a full cup of chocolate with churros. No, I also don’t know why the entire country hasn’t died of diabetes yet. Absolutely delightful. Beep! Back for a few days and I’m already missing eating tapas for every meal.
Did I mention that I love jamón ibérico? The red glasses contain a drink known as tinto de verano, which consists of ice cubes, red wine, and seltzer water. It’s actually much better than it sounds, and not to be confused with a kalimotxo.
I’ve been reading a friend’s foodie blog ever since Potlatch last year, and now I’m passing it along to you, dear readers. You get a taste of Seattle and the lovely understated writing of a poet’s whispered observations. But there’s also flair: My halibut paled in comparison, but it wasn’t really fair. The halibut came [...]
crema art, Seattle, WA I miss Seattle. *sniff*
Life has its own synchronocity — New Belgium and Elysian breweries to cross-brew beer at each other’s breweries. I just visited Elysian last week, and sampled some of their jasmine infused IPA. It was deliciously quirky, and a good second place to my most favourite of all beers, Odell’s IPA. As a fan of New [...]
I experimented with ham last night, my first one, and used this bourbon pecan ham recipe. It was a huge success, and the nice part was, I didn’t really need to modify the recipe at all. About the only thing I would suggest is that 325 is a bit low, and takes much longer than [...]
I alluded to making paella a few posts ago. I used this seafood paella recipe, and it came out delicious. I’ll save you some time of reading through the comments by telling you the modifications I used for extra jawesomeness: add one pound spicy chorizo and/or andoulllie sausage. Cook it like you would the chicken, [...]
Last year, I made my first turkey. The turkey itself came out pretty good, but as I noted in the blog posting, the gravy was weak and watery. It took about 2 hours of reducing to get it to thicken up, due to lack of enough roux. This year, we tried again with another early [...]
One of my favorite activities in life is grilling. There are few things as viscerally satisfying as heating meat over an open flame and then devouring it moments later. Of course, in this day and age, some silly humans have decided that they want to eat some vegetables too, and so we must satisfy them. [...]
I’m not a big fan of Valentine’s day, since in my opinion, it’s just a made up bunch of hooey to sell gift cards, flowers, chocolate, and diamonds. However, one doesn’t always get to choose which holidays in which they participate. That, combined with the fact that I liked to cook, lead me to create [...]