Dinner reviews from our Casa SaltShaker evenings
Not a trio of birthdays, but a trio at a birthday, here at Casa S. It started out as a larger dinner birthday party for a young man from Michigan, arranged by a friend. But circumstances combined to ending up with just a threesome coming to dinner on Monday. I offered to fold them in… Read More Birthday Trio
Sounds like an anime video, no? But, it’s just a typical dinner here at Casa S…. A reprise of our recent poached veal tongue dish, with fermented brussels sprouts, roasted beets, spicy beet stem relish, tapenade, quail eggs, and a local farmer’s cheese. New soup making its appearance, based on a traditional Bolivian Chupe de… Read More Tongue, Sucking Peanuts, Tentacles
Having been a trifle more prolific last month with blog posts there are only a foursome of photos leftover from the month to do a mini-round-up. So be it. I may as well just start off with the “gifts” for the month – both from the same evening, a woman from Seattle bearing some lovely… Read More Octoberfest o’Photos
Before we get to the juanes for our main course, let’s start the day with a little Juanes, Yerbatero… …and, on to last week’s dinners, which I really ought to get written up considering we’ve already started this week’s. Our signature flounder ceviche, capped by a grilled prawn, trio of sauces – guacamole mousse; toasted… Read More Interpretation of Juanes
Just a quick photo round-up of the recent Send a Child to School fundraising event at the Australian Embassy. This year, a group of us in the puertas cerradas restaurant world were asked to participate and provide the food, and we, and several of our companions answered the call with signature hors d’oeuvres. Myself, Pablo… Read More Charity Begins at Jalapeños
I decided to play around a little more with some of the dishes from our first Iquitos inspired dinner, and searching for a quotation to open the post came across this video of a new documentary that’s in production, Our Man in Iquitos. from Brooklyn Vitagraph It also reminds me that I wanted to put… Read More Iquitos – Another Round of Inspiration
“Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the… Read More Evolution of the Trout
Shall we begin the day with a little Lionel Ritchie? A strange week this past one. Four dinners scheduled and we ended up only serving two of them. Two nights we just received a bunch of more or less last minute cancellations, ending up down to 3 people one night and 2 the other –… Read More Say Food, Sea Food