Dinner reviews from our Casa SaltShaker evenings
Just a quick post on last week’s dinners – a couple of new dishes made their debut. Two different menus once again – one for the two holiday nights of the 31st and 1st and another for the 2nd through the 4th. Lots of requests on the latter for pescetarian, so we went that way… Read More Starting off the New Year
Although in yesterday’s post I took a look back at the year as a whole, we haven’t quite finished with varied and sundry moments of December. First up, the last full week of dinners for the year – two menus, one for the 24th and 25th, another for the 26th through the 29th. Yes, six… Read More All I Want For Christmas (Week)
Oh let’s see, once again everyone out there is putting forth their end of year wrap-ups and I feel near obligated to participate. Actually, it’s kind of fun to look back and see what’s new, changed, etc. and look forward to a new year. Past editions of this were 2012, 2011, 2010, and 2007. In… Read More A Year After the Mayan Apocalypse
Two weeks of dinners in one post. A week ago, before our travails with lack of power, I was just looking ahead at the daunting task of taking on this holiday season. As usual I have trouble saying no to people who want to book their end of year holiday parties, plus once again we… Read More Catching Up On Dinners
After yesterday’s photo intensive, I’m going to keep this one mercifully short. Two private dinners, four nights of public dinners, three menus in total, and many of the dishes I’ll just link to as we’ve prepared them before, particularly the private dinners. First up, a group of six, arranged by a gentleman who was in… Read More Dinners, Public and Private
Just a look back at last week’s dinners, bringing back a few favorites, adding some tweaks, bringing in some new ideas too…. Minor changes to our smoked tomato cheesecake plate. Infused the cherry tomatoes with kombu. Replaced the dehydrated tomato crumble with a dehydrated caper crumble that adds a nice little sharp note to the… Read More Somethings Old, Somethings New
A week of bringing back some favorite dishes, but each of them tweaked in some way – trying out new combinations. Overall, quite successful, at least as of now the only naysayers being a trio of Norwegian gen-xers who apparently found not only the food to be bland (which is weird, since during the dinner… Read More Playing with Favorites
After the usual personal questions about how I got here, how we got started, whether I spoke Spanish on arrival, how many nights a week… etc., the most common question I get asked is, “how do you come up with the dishes for your menus?” It’s often obvious from the way it’s asked that there’s… Read More Dinner from the pages of books…