Pork Tenderloin with Spicy Orange Sauce
I love sauces. I’ve always thought them to be easy to make and a sauce really can make the every-day into extraordinary with very little effort. Sauces and gravies have a lot in common, but they are different. A gravy is made with pan drippings. A sauce is made from anything else. Sauces range from [...]
新年好 – Gung Hay Fat Choy – Happy New Year
It is the Year of the Dragon. An auspicious year, indeed, for those of us born in the year of the Dragon. The Dragon is the only mythical animal in the Chinese zodiac. People born in the Year of the Dragon are healthy, energetic, excitable, short-tempered, and stubborn. They are also honest, sensitive, brave, and [...]
Beefy Onion Soup
I love onion soup. I almost don’t even mind the amount of time it takes to make. Almost. The key to making a good batch of onion soup is caramelizing the onions – and that takes time. There are no short-cuts. It’s just a long, drawn-out cook-and-stir-and-watch-and-stir. Another key factor is, of course, the onions. [...]
Spaghetti with Red Clam Sauce
After almost a week of playing bachelor, it’s good to be eating regularly, again. Victor was in London and I was busy redoing the basement. I have to admit that my eating habits just aren’t all that great when I’m home alone. Somehow, the joy of cooking just isn’t there. At least this trip I [...]
Tim in the Kitchen
Pork Tenderloin with Spicy Orange Sauce
I love sauces. I’ve always thought them to be easy to make and a sauce really can make the every-day into extraordinary with very little effort. Sauces and gravies have a lot in common, but they are different. A gravy is made with pan drippings. A sauce is made from anything else. Sauces range from [...]
Victor in the Kitchen
Spaghetti with Red Clam Sauce
After almost a week of playing bachelor, it’s good to be eating regularly, again. Victor was in London and I was busy redoing the basement. I have to admit that my eating habits just aren’t all that great when I’m home alone. Somehow, the joy of cooking just isn’t there. At least this trip I [...]
Desserts
Fantasia Confections, Revisited
Six years ago I sent away for a cook book straight out of my childhood. My very first job was in a neighborhood bakery out in the Sunset District of San Francisco – The Donut Center and European Bakery. On the other side of the park in Laurel Village was Fantasia Confections. We made donuts, [...]
Other Stuff
The Year In Pictures
Here it is… The year in pictures. We ate well in 2011 and hope to continue the tradition into 2012. I know that two weeks of 2012 will be fabulous when we eat our way through Italy. The things one must do… Click “Slideshow” or “Full Screen” for a better view. Have fun and enjoy. [...]
Support Creative Commons
.
Recent Articles
Pork Tenderloin with Spicy Orange Sauce
I love sauces. I’ve always thought them to be easy to make and a sauce really can make the every-day into extraordinary with very little effort. Sauces and gravies have a lot in common, but they are different. A gravy is made with pan drippings. A sauce is made from anything else. Sauces range from [...]
新年好 – Gung Hay Fat Choy – Happy New Year
It is the Year of the Dragon. An auspicious year, indeed, for those of us born in the year of the Dragon. The Dragon is the only mythical animal in the Chinese zodiac. People born in the Year of the Dragon are healthy, energetic, excitable, short-tempered, and stubborn. They are also honest, sensitive, brave, and [...]
Beefy Onion Soup
I love onion soup. I almost don’t even mind the amount of time it takes to make. Almost. The key to making a good batch of onion soup is caramelizing the onions – and that takes time. There are no short-cuts. It’s just a long, drawn-out cook-and-stir-and-watch-and-stir. Another key factor is, of course, the onions. [...]
Spaghetti with Red Clam Sauce
After almost a week of playing bachelor, it’s good to be eating regularly, again. Victor was in London and I was busy redoing the basement. I have to admit that my eating habits just aren’t all that great when I’m home alone. Somehow, the joy of cooking just isn’t there. At least this trip I [...]
Simple Beef Stroganoff
Beef Stroganoff may be one of the easiest dishes to make. Really. It’s a toss-together-in-a-skillet dinner that can be on the table in 10 minutes. I really love it – and don’t make it nearly as often as I should. It’s a cold-weather dish, for sure, which makes sense since it originally hails from Russia. [...]
Pork Loin Leftovers
The pork roast from last night was re-purposed tonight. When I was cooking it yesterday, I was trying to figure out a meal for today. We’re a waste-not-want-not kinda place here. No-regrets shopping. We buy it – we eat it. It makes for some interesting meals now and again. Winter is good because a pot [...]
Pork and Figs
When I was grocery shopping last week, I came across a tub of bone-in pork roasts. It was January 2nd – the pork-and-sauerkraut-for-New-Year’s folks had bought what they needed. These were the leftovers and they were practically giving them away. I picked up a 6lb roast for next to nothing and immediately put it in [...]
Breakfast Bruschetta
The other day Victor was flipping through channels and found Rachael Ray making an open-faced sandwich of sorts with pesto, roasted peppers, and fried eggs on top. We didn’t really catch the whole thing, but the gist of it was toasted inch-thick Italian bread spread with pesto, red peppers, and whatever else. Intriguing, to say [...]
Alton Brown’s Swiss Steak
Back in 1975 (that would be 37 years ago for the numerically-challenged) I moved to Lake Tahoe and started working as the cook for the Old Post Office Coffee Shop in Carnelian Bay. Carnelian Bay is on the North Shore, and back then wasn’t much more than a wide spot in the road. The [...]
2012 and the Food Continues…
I was looking back into the archives at what we’ve been ingesting on New Year’s Day. Surprisingly, I’m not a traditionalist. No pork and sauerkraut and only one Hoppin’ John – and that was because we had a family gathering and it was required. Otherwise, we seem to be all over the map as far [...]
The Year In Pictures
Here it is… The year in pictures. We ate well in 2011 and hope to continue the tradition into 2012. I know that two weeks of 2012 will be fabulous when we eat our way through Italy. The things one must do… Click “Slideshow” or “Full Screen” for a better view. Have fun and enjoy. [...]
