Family dinner. Irene…
Family dinner. Irene, Colin, and my nephews Matthijs, Thomas, Vincent, and Robin. The food is sous vide cooked pork loin, spiced three different ways, then seared. For vegetables we have roasted...
Category: Food
Quick breakfast snack
Quick breakfast snack: four eggs, scrambled until almost set, some furikake (a Japanese seasoning of salt, dried fish, sesame seed, seaweed, and more) and chili crisp (crushed caramelized chilis,...
Back in Seattle. Bar my second honeymoon…
Back in Seattle. Bar my second honeymoon, best vacation ever. Thursday afternoon through late morning today with Irene, Colin, and five to eight friends. Every day get up, cook, eat and clean up...
Most fantastical splendiferous son
Most fantastical splendiferous son. Burned my hand making tea while Colin was making dinner. Number one son calmly got the med pac out of his backpack, applied burn salve, got bandages and gauze,...
I made the lovely lady who calls her lunch place The Bitch’s Tits (an
I made the lovely lady who calls her lunch place The Bitch's Tits (and for dinner it's called The Dog's Bollocks) blush ...
Tonight’s dinner will be a pressure cooker prepared cream of asparagu
Tonight's dinner will be a pressure cooker prepared cream of asparagus soup, decorated with steamed asparagus tips, followed by a sous-vide cooked deep fried burgers, rare of course, hand formed off...
Cheddar and scallions buttermilk biscuits with a sausage grav
Cheddar and scallions buttermilk biscuits with a sausage gravy (flavored with a few spices and freshly made coffee), with scrambled buttermilk/eggs in the fat rendered from the dried up thickly slice...
A lovely pasta primavera…
A lovely pasta primavera, home made egg pasta, a nice fettuccine, with fresh, blanched asparagus, peas, favs beans, snap peas, and broccolini. For the sauce browned butter and olive oil in which I...
Made a lovely chicken…
Made a lovely chicken, potato, leek in white wine stew in the pressure cooker. Served it with a family viewing of John Wick 2.
I wanted to play with my new toy …
I wanted to play with my new toy - an electric pressure cooker - and made a gorgeous mushroom risotto (in 15 minutes!). To match the texture I played with velveting chicken in a Szechuan-style...