Food – Page 8 – Irene and Edwin

Love my stand mixer

Love my stand mixer. A big enough powerful enough stable enough stand mixer makes a lot of recipes developed for manual work in a cold drafty 17th, 18th century kitchen a lot improbable. Here it is...

Alright we had to push out the promised Christmas meal a day

Alright we had to push out the promised Christmas meal a day: yesterday my neck was messed up and caused me massive, vertigo inducing headaches. But it went away by early evening, had a good night's...

Dogs gnawing on bones from their stockings…

Dogs gnawing on bones from their stockings, eggnog from the local dairy, tree lit up, Bing Crosby's Christmas songs streaming on the speakers (Echo Link). It's Christmas stocking time!

Christmas Eve dinner was fairly simple as Irene and I didn’t get bac

Christmas Eve dinner was fairly simple as Irene and I didn't get back from sailing until after six. Fortunately Colin had prepped the potatoes and Brussels sprouts, and defrosted the pork chops. Here...

Brunch!

Vingilótë’s new oven knows many new tricks

Vingilótë's new oven knows many new tricks. Here it's showing off cooking sous vide, reheating Javanese chicken curry straight from the freezer.

Roasted marrowbones with coarse sea salt and fresh parsley on slice

Roasted marrowbones with coarse sea salt and fresh parsley on slices of garlic bread with Kerrygold butter. Garlic mashed potatoes: Yukon Gold, cooked in the skin in salted water, minced raw garlic...

It’s Irene’s birthday…

It's Irene's birthday, and I like spoiling her. So I took off a bit of the morning and make breakfast. Our house rule is on your birthday (celebration day) you get to pick the foods. Irene wanted a...

Tonight, take-out from That’s Amore Italian Cafe with a lovely bottl

Tonight, take-out from That's Amore Italian Cafe with a lovely bottle of Lambrusco. For me a Caesar salad followed by a filet mignon, roasted asparagus, on gnocchi, in a port reduction. After dinner...

The next week’s menu planning is complete

The next week's menu planning is complete: Tuesday night, Irene's birthday, we'll have: Roasted marrowbones with toast points starter Pan-fried lamb chops with mint jelly Garlic mashed...