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.
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
Italian snack : easy 250 grams semolina flour 250 grams unbleached all purpose flour 1 T. salt 1 T black pepper, coarsely ground, a pinch of saffron ¼ teaspoon active dry yeast 200 milliliters olive oil 175 milliliters white wine Put the yeast in the wine. Mix the flours, add
Halibut with Brown Butter Sauce Pour a tablespoon or two of olive oil into a well-made heavy skillet and set on barbecue, two burners going if possible, at medium high heat. When oil is hot, but not smoking, use a oven mitt to swirl to evenly coat the pan, then
Cheese – grated Guyère – will melt into a creamy sauce to surround a mound of great noodles and easily become the comfort food staple Mac ‘n Cheese. Simply boil the noodles for about 10 minutes until they are slightly less than perfectly done. You can use the pan you’ll
from Alain de la Treille Smell: mineral, pear, dust & ice (or maybe it’s springtime in Summit County, Colorado, when the sides of the roads look like ice weeds). Medium to light body, gold color. Acidity: bright and medium high. Taste: cold sliced pear with a squeeze of meyer
Three day old french bread – baguette cut in 1/2 inch slices – was toasted on the barbecue. The shallots, eggplant and garlic were sautéed on the side burner after being tossed with some lemon agrumato olive oil from Santa Fe Olive (Oil and Balsamic). When slightly browned, the eggplant
With no kitchen — yet — we make everything we possibly can on our newish barbecue, a Rogue from Napoleon, like these Nachos. Who would have guessed that nachos would benefit from smoking on the grill? But when you warm up chilies the flavor increases, and everything set in the