Category: Food + Drink
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Casa de Luz
Lunch last week at Casa de Luz included kabocha squash soup with pumpkin seeds and salad with white and sweet miso mustard dressing (topped with shredded beets, jicama and carrot)… As well as quinoa salad with almonds, great northern beans, sauerkraut, blanched greens with sunflower sesame seed sauce, and steamed cauliflower, carrots and zucchini. Casa…
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Tomo Sushi
So a while back, we had a lovely meal at Tomo Sushi, and Chef Steve told us we should come back and do an omakase menu on a Thursday, when he gets his fresh shipments from Japan. Yesterday afternoon, Justin suggested sushi for dinner, and so it was off to Tomo we went! I like…
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Cooking and not cooking
Last night I made this for dinner. Lots and lots of veggies, plus local (Pure Luck) goat’s milk feta and a lovely glass of wine = a perfect dinner. The charred carrot bruschetta came from a Martha Stewart recipe, and the raw kale salad was an attempt to recreate the lovely kale salad I had…
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Black Sheep Lodge
People, this burger is awesome. Just look at it! We went to Black Sheep Lodge a month or two ago specifically for this burger, and it didn’t disappoint. We also had some fried pickled jalapenos. Um, dee-licious. By this stage in book research, I was really missing vegetables, so I ordered a side of roasted…
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About caldo.
So there’s this thing called caldo. It’s a Mexican soup of sorts, and it can be made with beef (caldo de res) or chicken (caldo de pollo). My mom used to make it for us, and it was one of my favorite things. It’s just soup – I think my mom often used chicken on…