Live Qualitarian: Eat Well
Tastings are posts about the ideas or concepts of what we decided to cook, why, how we did it, and how it turned out.
Lamb, fries and salad A steak cut from a leg of lamb, grown locally served with oven baked fries and a radicchio and arugula salad. Read on to see what the sommelier said, and note the images for the wine’s name and vintage. Lamb was pan fried quickly, and
Reading a story about thin Midwestern pizza in the New York Times food section by J. Kenji-Lopez-Alt, I began to think about all my favorite pizzas, and front of mind was my hometown go-to: the LaCasa pizza of my childhood in Omaha, Nebraska. LaCasa’s is the crust that is thin,
Have the thought to add some shellfish to green chile stew? Steuart has made a giant pot of green chile, with pork and onions mostly. It’s Friday, and I’m going to the fish department at Whole Foods for the $1 oysters, and I’m really craving seafood – more than the
Whip up a crepe batter and fill … Crepe batter is easy to make in a blender or by whisk, and the recipe is basically: 1 unit of flour to 2 units of milk, started by beating 4 eggs per cup of the units (8 for a pint) and 2
Rub surface with butter or oil and herbs (rosemary) and let meat come to room temperature for about 3 hours before putting it in the oven. Prehead oven to 450, then cook 4 to 5 pound roast for 20 minutes, total. Turn oven down to 175°F until meat thermometer reads
A Poulet from Tijeras Rub the skin with olive oil, salt and rosemary in a roasting pan. Pre-heat oven to 425 degrees F. Stuff with one lemon cut in half. The chicken should come to room temperature. Roast this chicken until it is 165 degrees measured in the breast. Carve
Beef Tenderloin with a side of pasta The meat is from Kaune’s – our local family-owned market. About $12 for a tenderloin piece that we split. After purchase it was unwrapped and allowed to dry age until we cooked it a few nights later. Set at #6 on our stove,
Enough caramel to put a spoonful or two on a flourless chocolate cake: 1/4 cup warm cream 2 teaspoons butter 1 T water 3/8 cup sugar or 6 T – turbinado sugar is great pinch of good salt, vanilla if desired Warm cream in a deep saucepan, pour onto the