“Far more obscure dishes could be art house sensations too — which makes crespéou the “Big Night” of Provençal cooking.” – Regina Schrambling, LA Times Okay, crespéou isn’t the most well-known dish of the provençal repertoire, but it’s also not completely obscure. We learned to make them when when I was in cooking school, a… Read More Very Crepe-y
“All children, except one, grow up.” – from Peter Pan, 1904, by James Matthew Barrie Apparently the thought of a Peter Pan “I don’t wanna grow up” sort of dinner scared away a few folk. There seemed to be much consternation as to just exactly what sort of things we might be serving here at… Read More Second Star to the Right…
“I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, ‘What for?’ I said, ‘I’m going to buy some sugar.’” – Stephen Wright, comedian Merengues secos are “dry meringues”, and they were on my list to practice this week. I had a lot of time spent in-house because we were… Read More Drying Out the Meringues
“Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.” – Barbara Jordan, U.S. attorney Cookie practice time, in particular masas secas de manga – small tea/mate cookies that are piped out… Read More Piping the Cookies Aboard
Totally missed posting the results of this class and skipped straight to class 9. Here, we continued on cookie work with mini-scones, frutillas, pepas and polvorones….
“Five years ago, a man’s fantasy became a reality in a forum never seen before: Casa SaltShaker, a giant Kitchen Stadium. The motivation for spending his fortune to create Casa SaltShaker was to encounter new original cuisines which could be called true artistic creations. To realize his dream, he secretly started choosing the top chefs… Read More Our Iron Chef Weekend
Anyone who has spent time here in Argentina has probably encountered alfajores, the lovely dulce de leche or chocolate or marmalade filled sandwich cookies that are what every Oreo dreams of being when it grows up. I’ve always noted that there were various kinds, particularly marplatenses, santafesinos, and maicenas – i.e., from Mar del Plata,… Read More Pastry Class 9
Picking up where I left off along my Av. Rivadavia wander back at Suipacha and Plaza Arlt… our next segment runs from there to the Plaza de los Dos Congresos, usually just referred to in the singular as Plaza Congreso. As I mentioned in the previous post, much of this section of Rivadavia, because it… Read More Presidential Backbone – 2nd Vertebra