17 Jul 2012 5 Comments
in Pork, Recipes, Video Tags: barbecue, Bastille Day, french cooking, grilling, salade Nicoise, Sonoma, steak au poivre, wine, Wine Guerrilla
If you’re going to spend an afternoon with a guerrilla, what better occasion than Bastille Day — a holiday celebrating the storming of a symbol of monarchal oppression by the common man.
The “guerrilla” we would spend Bastille Day with would not be a camouflaged, gun-toting, beret-crowned rebel, but rather our family wine, Wine Guerrilla — and my mother’s long-time partner, Bruce, producer of the wine and himself often referred to as, “The Wine Guerrilla.” More
27 Mar 2012 3 Comments
in Cooking Tips, Observations Tags: burgers, cooking tips, dinner, Mexican, shopping, steak au poivre, sushi, Trader Joe's, Vietnamese
This morning I was shopping. It’s Monday, and I like to think about what I’ll be cooking throughout the week. Sometimes I have no plan, and open the fridge or freezer in the afternoon to see what’s there. But more often than not, I’ll have at least some sense of where the week is going, culinarily speaking.
Fridge, freezer & pantry — items for the week's dinner
Outside influences sometimes play a part — upcoming dinner parties, the tastes of a guest visiting from out of town, my wife’s craving for Mexican food or my son’s for Japanese. I’ll think about the days and nights ahead, how much preparation time I will have for each (I take my son to tae kwon do two afternoons a week, for example), consider what ingredients I already have, and make a plan. More
skinny girls & mayonnaise 