A passion for food

"Madame" has been after me to share what we do in the kitchen, so here goes! I have a passion for preparing and serving great food. I have a goal of getting a great meal on the table every evening in around 45 minutes - the time it takes when I get the phone call that "Madame" is leaving work until the time we eat. I look for fresh ingredients - in season, supplemented with herbs, peppers, and very occasional tomatoes from the garden.

Monday, December 28, 2009

Boxing Day

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On those years when Madame and I are in the country over Christmas and December 26th is a weekend, we have a Boxing Day (day after Christmas...
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Friday, December 25, 2009

This takes the cake

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To a Brit, having Christmas cake is an important part of the holiday season. It is a fruit cake - but doesn't (at least in my house) hav...
Friday, December 18, 2009

A Christmassy salad

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This is Christmassy because of the colors not the flavors. I had to stop to buy bread (too lazy to bake at the moment) on the way home from ...

Chicken in a pot

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It seems like most of the major culinary styles do some kind of one dish, chicken based thick stew or soup. Chicken in a pot is our generic ...
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Sunday, December 13, 2009

A Tale of 2 Trifles

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We were invited to 2 parties on Saturday. Each one of course wanted us to bring something. We always bring something meatless to th...
Friday, December 11, 2009

3 people, 2lbs clams, 1lb linguine

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I needed a quick dinner for 3 of us last evening. Quick because I had didn't get out of a meeting until 7:15 and needed to drive home, c...
Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Seabirdskitchen joins the culinary underground

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Dave Gilber t and I met a few months back and just plain hit it off. We had promised ourselves a day together doing our favorite things. Su...
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Monday, November 30, 2009

garlic, lemon, potatoes Oh My!

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This is another dish inspired by Cooks Illustrated . As u sual , I have taken a couple of liberties - but only out of necessity! The origina...
Sunday, November 15, 2009

Seeing red - meat that is

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In a previous post ( when will it be done? ) , I wrote about rate of change - knowing when something will be done by observing its rate of c...

An old flame? - Steak au poivre

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Our friend Bryan - he of the champagne dinner fame, sometimes calls up saying, "I was thinking of opening a bottle of (insert interesti...
Monday, November 2, 2009

The Champagne Dinner

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We were challenged to create a dinner where each course would be paired with champagne. Of course, champagne is pretty versatile, but we wan...
Sunday, October 18, 2009

What matters?

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The wonderful French cookbook, "Je sais cusinier" has been translated into English. The English title is "I know how to cook....
Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Steamed fish over petits pois bonne femme

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I have unashamedly pinched this from Gordon Ramsey's show, "The F-Word". However because i have a terrible memory, I am sure I...
Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Guacatuna

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Tuna has been a battleground in our house. Madame likes the canned variety (aka catfood in my book), and I like it fresh, preferably raw. So...
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Watermelon and mango soup

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Madame and I ate at The Edge, a very nice restaurant in Rodney Bay St. Lucia. Madame had the watermelon soup and it was excellent. I couldn...

After dinner drink or dessert?

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This recipe is inspired by a drink that we had in St. Lucia recently. The drink is a BBC (Baileys, Banana, Colada). However I wanted to make...
Sunday, July 5, 2009

Grape Focaccia – With Acknowledgement to Daniel Leader

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We had an invitation to a July 4 th party and it involved a bit of a drive. So what to take? It's hot here in Texas, so didn't wan...
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Saturday, June 27, 2009

Using the tomatoes

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We have had a good tomato crop this year. There are 2 varieties – red cherry tomatoes and yellow pear tomatoes. They taste divine and look b...
Sunday, May 17, 2009

The tennis brunch

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Madame and I had been threatening to do this for a while. We finally got it together. The menu was pretty simple – mimosas, peppers stuffed ...
Friday, May 8, 2009

Producers' Picnic 2009

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We did the annual producers' picnic for Madame's students last weekend. Because I can't leave well enough alone, I tried a new t...
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