Archive | March 2012
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Cooking Quickie: “What does it mean to ‘Butter the Casserole’?”
“Cooking Quickies” are simple cooking questions heard from readers, students and general people. Please send your “Quickie Questions” to spoonfeast@gmail.com Cooking Quickie: What does it mean to “butter the casserole?” This refers to a vessel in which you are putting a mixture of ingredients where they are going cook for a period of time. What […]
Stone Crab and Mustard Sauce Heaven!
Yesterday I was delirious, lost in Stone Crab and Mustard Sauce heaven. I spent many years of my young adulthood in Miami. Stone Crabs were a main part of my diet when in season. Joe’s Stone Crabs on South Beach was an institution even when the neighborhood was not so nice. We ate there often. […]
Stuffed Shrimp
Stuffed shrimp are so easy to make and are considered a quick and easy meal. While scallops are the original fast food, these don’t fall far behind. Use the largest shrimp you can afford. I prefer wild caught shrimp. What I have read about farm raised shrimp has me not eating shrimp for the most […]
Writing in Cookbooks
Not too long ago, another bloggerThe Ranting Chef, wrote about writing in his cookbooks. He said he didn’t write in books until recently. He came up with a great way of categorizing their favorite recipes and those recipes with the highest ratings were listed in the front of the book by a ranking system he […]
Thai Style “Green Sauce”
We went to “Thai Taste” for lunch the other day. On the table were several bottles of different sauces. One soy, a hot fiery red sauce and this green sauce. It was simply delicious. We bought a pint of it to bring home, not only to enjoy over several meals, but to figure out just […]
Potato Chip Cookies
I wrote this post on Potato Chip Cookies before I realized how many others have recently posted recipes for potato chip cookies. In studying some books on food photography, cookies were an “assignment”. These have been on my mind lately and decided to make them for pictures. Oh well, here is another version that isn’t […]
Rungis Market
Rungis Market is located just outside of Paris, France. It is the largest wholesale food market in Europe. The Tokyo Fish market and Rungis rival by claiming each is the largest in the world. The Rungis Market has huge areas dedicated to fish, meat, cheese, produce and flowers. The place is a city all its […]
Lobster-cide
No more “lobster-cide”; I can’t kill lobsters anymore. Being a chef, and an instructor who used to be able to teach such things to poor unsuspecting students, this isn’t something you’d admit out loud. I was reading Domestic Diva MD‘s post on having to cut up a chicken and kind of understood what she was […]
This past week
During this past week I have had some time off to get some projects off of my need to do list. This is what I have been up to: Taxes are done! Until next year. Every year I say I’m going to keep track of records so there isn’t so much to do at the […]
