I love Michael Ruhlman and Tony Bourdain. Over at Ruhlman's blog, http://blog.ruhlman.com/ , they are setting up an awards "show" to be held in South Beach in February. It is pretty much a slam of Food Network. Why a clog award? If you have never worked in a busy kitchen without chef-clogs, your feet, calves, and knees will speak to you...for days! Here are some examples of awards:
The Malto Award=biggest media whore who cooks great and still adds inspiration to the culinary world..in so many words.
The Rocco Award=the the chef who made the worst career move
The Alton Award=to the FN Personality who can actually cook!
The Fergus Award=best achievement in offal
The Chef's Chef Award=to the least heralded chef yet most deserving working chef
The blog goes on to accept comments/nominations in other categories. ...that you make up.
Ideas? Suggestions? Chefs in Sacto, or your area?
Cooking Schmooking... On Food. On Life.
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Just Guess
The thing that gets me all excited about cooler temps (outside) is the idea of making soup again. I love soup...all kinds. I have several cookbooks devoted to the subject. So, I decided to grab 5 cookbooks off the shelf, find a weekly soup recipe from each, and make one each week...and hope I grabbed a cookbook that included such recipes! [I got the idea for this idea from Ann Martin-Rolke over at Sacatomato http://www.sacatomato.com/ in one of her posts..only she was more sophisticated about it]
Here is what I grabbed (and I closed my eyes first)
1) In One Pot ( one of my weight watchers cookbooks..which is good since I joined up today...weird since I have about 300 cookbooks to choose from)
2) Cooking Kosher, The Natural Way
3) Inter Courses ( I bought this for Dave back in 1998, when we behaved like rabbits)
4) Nose to Tail Eating
5) A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove, A History of American Women Told Through Food, Recipes, and Remembrances (my husband bought this for me after we stopped behaving like rabbits)
Okay...now try to guess which recipe came from which book!
a) Cock-a-leekie Soup
b) Sprout Soup
c) Pine Nut Soup
d) Moroccan Lamb and Lentil Soup
e) Basil-Eggplant Soup
Whoever gets em all right, will win a brand new cookbook!! That's right folks, a brand new cookbook. If you already have it, then you don't get it. If you don't want it, you don't get it. But, you'll want it....or not. No cheating if you have any of the cookbooks..just guess. [I will also throw in a gift certificate to a fine local eatery AND you can keep guessing...I changed the rules, cause I can]
Here is what I grabbed (and I closed my eyes first)
1) In One Pot ( one of my weight watchers cookbooks..which is good since I joined up today...weird since I have about 300 cookbooks to choose from)
2) Cooking Kosher, The Natural Way
3) Inter Courses ( I bought this for Dave back in 1998, when we behaved like rabbits)
4) Nose to Tail Eating
5) A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove, A History of American Women Told Through Food, Recipes, and Remembrances (my husband bought this for me after we stopped behaving like rabbits)
Okay...now try to guess which recipe came from which book!
a) Cock-a-leekie Soup
b) Sprout Soup
c) Pine Nut Soup
d) Moroccan Lamb and Lentil Soup
e) Basil-Eggplant Soup
Whoever gets em all right, will win a brand new cookbook!! That's right folks, a brand new cookbook. If you already have it, then you don't get it. If you don't want it, you don't get it. But, you'll want it....or not. No cheating if you have any of the cookbooks..just guess. [I will also throw in a gift certificate to a fine local eatery AND you can keep guessing...I changed the rules, cause I can]
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
I am hot!
My husband is hard of hearing in one ear..like his father. I can be in the kitchen..and he is in the living room [if you have been to our house you know this is not a stretch] and I can say stuff like, "what do you want with your steak?" No answer. "The kitchen is on fire". No answer. "I'm on fire". With the correct voice inflection, THAT will get his attention.. but usually not.
I can then go into the hallway and turn the air conditioner on. He perks up as if he's been hit with a cattle prod...then...comes into the kitchen and says.."are we shutting the house down?." Meaning....if you are turning the air on, then let's close all of the windows. I tell him, "I am having a hot flash...I need air right now". At which point he rushes around the garage to get the fan...and then places it toward me in the kitchen...asking me, "is this hitting you okay?" He then rushes around the house to close 3 windows. Hello...I am still hot. I just wanted some very cold air while I was making dinner. He is in the living room, watching tv...I am in the kitchen cooking...pans hot, oven on. Hot kitchen! Hot me. [after about 5 minutes he goes and turns the air off but leaves the fan on...so that I still think the air is on]. This works....not.
We have a history of this.
He used to come and visit me in my lovely home in the Redwoods of California...Sonoma County. I had a fabulous cabin-like home..my dream spot right in the forest...hardwood floors, huge fireplace, sky-lights, tons of windows. The first night he slept with me...I awoke to find him shivering. His teeth were actually chattering. It was spring-time. My fireplace was going..I just could not understand why he was so cold. [I am a Wyoming girl] I asked him, "should I shut the window?" He replied, in a high pitched, shocked and quivery voice, "you mean the window is open?" I began to laugh....lots. He did not. I always sleep with the window open..no matter how cold it is.
Hell yes...I can only sleep when it is chilly in the bedroom....and afterall, I had a down comforter on the bed for him! I still think it is hot, when he thinks it is cold. At the beginning of September, he insisted on having two blankets and a comforter...which I throw over on him. I just want a light blanket and a sheet...and a fan blowing on me... cause baby I am hot!
I can then go into the hallway and turn the air conditioner on. He perks up as if he's been hit with a cattle prod...then...comes into the kitchen and says.."are we shutting the house down?." Meaning....if you are turning the air on, then let's close all of the windows. I tell him, "I am having a hot flash...I need air right now". At which point he rushes around the garage to get the fan...and then places it toward me in the kitchen...asking me, "is this hitting you okay?" He then rushes around the house to close 3 windows. Hello...I am still hot. I just wanted some very cold air while I was making dinner. He is in the living room, watching tv...I am in the kitchen cooking...pans hot, oven on. Hot kitchen! Hot me. [after about 5 minutes he goes and turns the air off but leaves the fan on...so that I still think the air is on]. This works....not.
We have a history of this.
He used to come and visit me in my lovely home in the Redwoods of California...Sonoma County. I had a fabulous cabin-like home..my dream spot right in the forest...hardwood floors, huge fireplace, sky-lights, tons of windows. The first night he slept with me...I awoke to find him shivering. His teeth were actually chattering. It was spring-time. My fireplace was going..I just could not understand why he was so cold. [I am a Wyoming girl] I asked him, "should I shut the window?" He replied, in a high pitched, shocked and quivery voice, "you mean the window is open?" I began to laugh....lots. He did not. I always sleep with the window open..no matter how cold it is.
Hell yes...I can only sleep when it is chilly in the bedroom....and afterall, I had a down comforter on the bed for him! I still think it is hot, when he thinks it is cold. At the beginning of September, he insisted on having two blankets and a comforter...which I throw over on him. I just want a light blanket and a sheet...and a fan blowing on me... cause baby I am hot!
Monday, September 24, 2007
Tamale Time
It's tamale time. I've never made tamales, but I bought the stuff at Mi Rancho Mercado to give it a try. [click on post title for a gorgeous pic of one!] Thanks to Jim Winstead for posting those lovely Tamale Festival Photos at Flickr.
I think it must be like canning...a community thing. Problem is, I am doing it alone. Perhaps I should have a tamale making party?
It's all Daisy's fault (PBS) for showing me how to make Latin American food.
I'll keep you "posted." hehehe
update: a chowhound buddy hooked me up with this site http://www.tamarastamales.com
I think it must be like canning...a community thing. Problem is, I am doing it alone. Perhaps I should have a tamale making party?
It's all Daisy's fault (PBS) for showing me how to make Latin American food.
I'll keep you "posted." hehehe
update: a chowhound buddy hooked me up with this site http://www.tamarastamales.com
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