Posted in food, restaurants, tagged duck, eve, lobster, new year on January 1, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Duck sliced at our table, the crispy skin sliced off the carcass and
then placed on rice chips served with sliced green onion and a sweet hoisin sauce
small crescent shaped buns come with it so you can layer your duck inside of it
we also had lobster, and chinese greens, which I forgot to photograph from being overly occupied with eating!
Posted in food, Recipes, tagged french onion soup on November 20, 2011| 3 Comments »
this is last night’s dinner at home! i cooked the sliced onions in the oven for an hour in olive oil and then john cooked them in butter in a pan and with beef stock, little sage and a bit of port
after slicing fresh baguette into it, he topped it with gruyere and parmesan and broiled it for 5 minutes!, YUM!!!!
onion soup
Posted in food, things to do in oregon, tagged foraging, forest, moss, mushroom, plants, rain, tillamook on October 13, 2011| 3 Comments »
about an hour out of portland martie k. took me foraging for plants and moss and mushrooms today, she is after all a well cherished portland topiary designer and hunts down amazing green nature
a stump, well saturated with oregon rains
lush moss abounds everywhere
lichen on old stumps
and my (meager) catch of the day, a single chantarelle mushroom!
Posted in food, restaurants, tagged brunch, eggs, portland, veritable quandry on September 27, 2011| Leave a Comment »
not a bad place to take your in-laws especially on a great sunny day in Portland (rare in winter)
the eggs were all cooked wrong and the second time around as well, but we managed to eat them anyway
crab (patty) was a bit fishy but John still ate it, overall the best thing was the tea service!!! and my bibb salad
John orders from the menu in the outdoor garden area
egg, bibb lettuce, bacon, cheese, corn cake
monte christo sandwich
lentil burger on toast
Posted in europe, food, tagged croatia, pizza, veal, zagreb on September 22, 2011| Leave a Comment »
this is the city of my birth, Zagreb, croatia, a place I left when I was 10 and whenever I visit, every five years or so I am pleasantly surprised by great food and fantastic ambiance!
the cathedral is in the background
zagreb pizza w egg in middle-amazing!
zagreb veal chop, flash grilled and scrumptious french fries
Posted in food, tagged butchering, olympic, pig, pork, provisions on September 11, 2011| Leave a Comment »
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Posted in europe, food, restaurants, tagged france, garten, ina, la boissonnerie, paris, pigeon on August 21, 2011| Leave a Comment »
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Posted in europe, food, tagged bistro, cheese, ham, paris, salad, tartare on August 16, 2011| Leave a Comment »
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Posted in food, tagged cherry, pistachio on July 11, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Posted in food, Recipes, tagged salmon, shallots, spinach, wild on June 4, 2011| Leave a Comment »
whole salmon from fred meyer
pan roasting with shallots in olive oli
served with garlic laden olive oil toasted spinach
Posted in food, vegetables, tagged fellini, green, peas, saveur on June 4, 2011| 1 Comment »
Fellini approaches cautiously as john eats a pea and reads saveur
Fellini attempts to steal pea pod from john
fellini licks pea pod
getting closer
felini bites pea pod
and chews it
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and chews it more
well maybe it’s not as good as it looked
peas, check out the ratio,empty pods galore, peas not so much
Posted in food, restaurants, tagged duck, lamb, noodle soup, ping, pok pok, thai on May 29, 2011| 1 Comment »
john waiting for the waitress at 1 pm on a saturday
wood paneling on walls
cool bar and white tile wall
pomegranate and rhubarb vinegars as our drinks
four spicy condiments
cool tablecloths
lamb noodle soup
duck leg noodle soup
Posted in food, tagged ban mhi, ha & VL, soup, vietnamese on May 20, 2011| Leave a Comment »
vietnamese joint, soups and sandwiches (ban mhi)
ban mhi
vienamese ban mhi
soup sides
chicken soup
Posted in europe, food, Recipes, tagged adriatic, brodetto, cooking, croatia, dad, fish, soup on September 24, 2010| 4 Comments »
this is an amazing soup my dad makes in Croatia with fresh fish and some very basic ingredients
Posted in food, tagged brut, champagne, demi, pinot, rose, sec on September 24, 2010| Leave a Comment »
I ran across this today in an old Saveur magazine and thought some people might find it useful:
Labels on French champagnes can be confusing and here are some quick facts:
Blanc de Blancs-made only with white grapes, 100 percent Chardonnay, ages well
Blanc de Noirs-light colored champagnes made from the juice of dark-skinned grapes such as pinot noir or pinot meunier
Brut-meaning dry, very little sugar added to the bottle, 95% of all French champagnes
Demi-Sec-pair well with desserts,noticeable amount of sugar
Extra-Dry-pretty sweet, popular in American sparkling wines
Rose-wide variety of taste, made with contact with dark grape skins or blending with red
Posted in food, tagged color, easter, eggs on April 4, 2010| Leave a Comment »
fabulous easter eggs
Here they are my fabulous Easter eggs!
As a child I always loved the colorful eggs and still do today!
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 | Kat on new kitchen!!! |
 | Nicolas on Chanterelles in tillamook |
 | Rosemary on living in Portland |
| kat on Tomato and onion tart |
| kat on Basque piperade in a Le Creuse… |
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