Last night's celebration dinner: Steak Diane with roasted Brussel sprouts and a very nice mushroom risotto. Colin did the prep work on the sprouts and risotto ingredients and cooked the risotto. And...
It's a food prep day. I have 10 pounds of carrots, six heads of cauliflower, 4 bunches of celery, four large yellow onions, 2 big bunches of parsley, ten pounds of chicken breast, and all the trimmed...
Sateh Babi (pork satay), made old school Indonesian (well, Balinese: with the whole muslim thing, you can pretty much get pork only on Bali) style, spice paste made with mortar and pestle, the meat...
Tonight: pork satay (I bought two pork shoulders, so some of it'll have to end up as pulled pork, I want to experiment with sous vide cooking, and oven/smoker finish, or very coarse ground pork),...
Deconstructed rice bowl. Pan fried salmon, glazed with homemade teriyaki sauce, finished with some furikake. Served with fresh English cucumber, pickled English cucumber, scallions, and bourbon...
More kitchen porn for Jon Lupo, Justin Kocher, David Marks, and more. This is the kitchen I designed in Chicago. A 21 x 24 feet room, with, clockwise from 9 o' clock, a low working counter, usually...
For Jon Lupo. This is what it looked like when we bought it, then the new gas stove (we ran gas when we moved in) and decent hood, sacrificing the upper cabinets and a narrow base cabinet. Then the...