Abe says
For me as a fan of good food, sometime-neurotic person, and maintainer of multiple chronically-behind to-do lists, it is important to periodically develop grand plans for a multicourse dinner party and then make frantic attempts to execute on them. As personal milestones they are markers of my culinary progress and opportunities to completely focus [...]
Filed under: Desserts, Main Courses, Recipes, Sauces, Side Dishes, Soups and Stews, Vegetables by Abe on April 19, 2009. Tagged with: balsamic vinegar, beet greens, beets, caramel, cheese, dinner group, garlic, ghost chili, gnocchi, gougeres, grapefruit, ice cream, mache, mushrooms, parmesan, peas, romano, shallots, tarragon, tasting menu, the french laundry, truffles, vanilla, vegetarian, vinaigrette, white beans, xanthan gum.
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Abe says
Consider as an aside the food blog, what rightly translates to “food web log”. An awkward construction to be sure, it isn’t helped by the abomination of language that is “blog”, blood ancestor of all manner of foul terminology. And yet, as inspiration the possibilities are endless. A more focused publication, a cooking log, [...]
Filed under: Miscellaneous by Abe on March 5, 2009. Tagged with: caramel, chipotle, chocolate, ghost chili, theo.
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Abe says
Valentine’s day is a holiday that engenders such a range of emotions that the best solution may just be to have a drink, or two, and eat some tasty food.
In the afternoon we attended a Champagne tasting at Licorous — six wines with six tiny food pairings — along with Steve and Kat. It [...]
Filed under: Main Courses, Miscellaneous, Recipes, Side Dishes by Abe on February 15, 2009. Tagged with: bacon, capers, caramel, caviar, celeriac, champagne, chez panisse, chocolate, dates, meyer lemon, parmesan, red wine, risotto, salmon, slow roasting, valentine's day, wine.
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