by Calina
The perfect dish to make when you want to impress someone…. Pappardelle with duck ragu On Baubles, Bubbles, and Beautiful things: Whole-wheat shells with asparagus, feta, and mint Sugar cookies with almond frosting
Categories: Dinner for two, Duck, Guest Bloggers, Pasta
by Calina
Hi folks, While Eric’s in Copenhagen working at Noma (the world’s best restaurant!), I’ll be keeping you entertained with my amateur cooking attempts. There are no professional chefs in my house, but both my husband (Ed) and I LOVE to cook! If you’d like to know more about me, Calina, you can check out my personal blog: Baubles, Bubbles, & Beautiful Things. I also contribute to the Seattle PI’s Inside Belltown blog. Grilled Baby Octopus with Roasted Peppers and Potatoes
Categories: Dinner, Guest Bloggers, Seafood, Uncategorized
Going back in time a hundred years or so to make something amazing. I wanted to make a chateaubriand for quite some time now but I didn’t want to make it with a bearnaise sauce as has been suggested by every modern book I have seen. I decided to look at my Escoffier book and that lead to this Colbert Butter Sauce. It’s a compound butter with meat glace. The base compound butter for it is a Buerre Maitre D’Hotel […]
Categories: Beef, Dinner, Sauce, Vegetable • Tags: Buerre Maitre D'Hotel, Chateaubriand, Colbert Butter, Colbert Butter Sauce, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, Poached, recipe
Definitely going on the menu one day……. Ingredients Dungeness Crab….two of them……fresh from a seafood market in Longbeach, WA Mofongo Plantains….yellowish brown….there is a reason for this Garlic, minced Olive oil Adobo (my mix) Saffron Buerre Blanc Butter White Rum Saffron Cilantro, minced White Wine Vinegar Salt, tt Shallot Jam Shallots, minced Balsamic Vinegar…reduced Black Pepper Pectin Cilantro Oil I’ll link this up shortly Procedure Mofongo Peel and bake the plantains in an oven at 350F until soft Remove from […]
Categories: Dinner, Puerto Rican Style, Sauce, Seafood • Tags: Buerre Blanc, Cilantro Oil, Cooking Blog, Dungeness Crab, Food, Mofongo, recipe, saffron, Shallot Jam
I learned how to do cedar planking in class the other day so I figured I would give it a shot at home. I talked to my Chef and asked him all the tips and things I should expect and I was off! This is version 1.0 of this and I will be doing this another time before I make this in Ohio for a catering gig during Thanksgiving (yup, it’s a big one). I don’t make it out to […]
Categories: Dinner, Potatoes, Seafood • Tags: Cedar Plank, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Duxelle, Food Blog, Mushrooms, Parsley, Persimmon, Potatoes, recipe, Salmon, White wine
Here is a different way to do your turkey this Thanksgiving. Slice the breasts off the raw turkey, take the carcasses and make a stock then make a nice gravy to cover…..its’ good Once you stuff it roll it and truss it, like so: Then cook it, slice, and serve. Equipment: Twine Roasting Pan Ingredients: Turkey with breast removed Celery, small diced Onions, small diced Parsley, minced Pine nuts, toasted and crushed Unsalted peanuts, toasted and crushed White wine vinegar […]
Categories: American Regional Cuisine, Becoming A Chef: Blogging about Culinary School, Dinner • Tags: Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food Blog, recipe, Stuffed Turkey, Turkey
I need to buy a presentation pan for fish…..yikes! Anyway, cooked some dinner up last night while I’m on my little break between quarters. I just need to keep up the practice so it doesn’t really matter who is there to eat it or not. The good thing is that there were people there to eat the food I made so that’s a plus! They left full and happy…..actually, they didn’t leave because it was for my wife and roommates…haha. […]
Categories: Becoming A Chef: Blogging about Culinary School, Dinner, Random Rants • Tags: Chocolate, Dinner, Pasta, Salmon, Soup
I’ve been visited a few deli’s lately so I wanted to take little bits and pieces from each store and put together a meal. I think a Beef Wellington is a meal in itself so there is no need for other unneccessary starches or vegetables…..it was stuffed with mushrooms and it has a nice puff pastry so there you go. The sauce for this is a monster and I actually licked my plate when I was done. This is restaurant […]
Categories: Beef, Dinner • Tags: Beef Wellington, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, Food Blog, Prosciutto, recipe, Red Wine, Sauce
Chateau Rosti (Click for recipe) Aioli on Artisan Olive Bread (Click for recipe) Grilled Corn with Butter and Basil Shawna’s Salad Fried Pork Chop (Click for recipe)
Categories: Dinner, Random Rants • Tags: Aioli, Chateau Rosti, Cooking Blog, Corn, Dinner, Food, Pork Chop, Salad
It’s 90 degrees outside right now so what better way to make yourself sweat even more than with a nice hot and sour soup!!! I learned how to make consomme in class this past week so the first thing I wanted to make with my new technique was hot and sour soup. Mindy and I fell in love with this soup after going to a few Chinese restaurants in Seattle. This recipe isn’t traditional so don’t punch me in the […]
Categories: Dinner, Soup • Tags: Cooking, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Hot and Sour Soup, Lunch, recipe, Soup
(Click each picture to make it larger) About two months ago I made some halibut with extremely large halibut steaks (click for recipe). These things weighed about 2 pounds each and were extremely fresh. I did two recipes, one with a three pepper rub served with a mango pineapple dressing and this one, the insanely spicy halibut with a mango pineapple dressing. I didn’t post it because I don’t know too many people that like extremely spicy food. Well, here […]
Categories: Dinner, Fish • Tags: Cayenne, Chipotle, Cooking, Fish, Food, Halibut, NaBloPoMo09, Pepper, Spicy, Urfa Biber
(Click each picture to make it larger…….This is with my new fancy camera…….funny note: I found my camera that I lost…..ta-da) North Carolina-Style Pig My friends, Fuzzy and Richard, told me they were going to be cooking a whole pig for a friend’s 50th wedding anniversary. I think before Richard finished saying, “we’re going to cook a whole pig”, I jumped in and asked if I could help. I was anxiously waiting for 3 weeks for this to happen and […]
Categories: Dinner, Dinner for two, Pork • Tags: Apple Cider Vinegar, BBQ, Cooking, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Grill, North Carolina, Pig, Pork, recipe, Vinegar, Whole Pig
That new camera can’t get here fast enough!!! Ingredients: 1/2 stick of butter 1 lb. Andouille Sausage, cut into 1 inch slices (Proctor Farmers Market from Cheryl the Pig Lady) 5 aji dulce pods, diced (from my secret source) 5 fresh garlic cloves, minced (Wallingford Farmers Market) 1 ear of corn with corn removed from husk 1/2 sweet onion, diced 20 ounces chicken broth 1 pinch of Italian Sea Salt 1 pinch of Urfa Biber 10 ounces […]
Categories: Dinner, Pork • Tags: Andouille, Cooking, Cooking Blog, Dinner, recipe, Stew, Urfa Biber
(Click each picture to make it larger) I’ve been looking for ways to stack food and I’ve gone a few different places that I won’t mention because their metal food stacking rings were about $12 each. I needed a few different sizes and I certainly wasn’t going to spend $60-70 on rings to make my food touch the sky so I went to Home Depot instead. PVC pipe is my friend and for $3.85 I purchased all the rings I […]
Categories: Dinner, Pasta, Vegetarian • Tags: Capitol Hill Farmers Market, Cooking, Cooking Blog, Curry, Dinner, Food, Pasta, Pike Place Market, recipe, Red Curry, Thai Curry, Yellow Curry
(Click each picture to make it larger) Take your tastebuds on a trip with this stew. Ugh, that sounds so damn cheesy it’s ridiculous. Rainbows, butterflies, and unicorns!!!! Please try this stew, I know it’s summertime but it’s worth it. Ingredients: 2 mini-cattle chuck steaks. Yes, mini-cattle (click) salt and pepper 4 tbsp. butter Sear each side of the steaks for about 2 minutes on each side by placing salt and pepper on the steak then placing then heating the […]
Categories: Beef, Dinner • Tags: Beef, Cooking, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, Mini Cattle, recipe, Stew, Sweet
