Since we’re about to head out on a month long vacation, the only dinners for July are the ones we just held this week. A bit of a Peruvian theme to the evenings, just getting ourselves in the mindset for where we’re headed… Started off with our ever popular roasted beet causa – sans the… Read More July Dinners, Wrap-Up

A bizarre week for reservations, with seemingly more cancellations than bookings, if that’s possible. In the end, we opened up two nights with eight reservations each night, and two folk simply didn’t show one of the nights – haven’t heard from them since. Who knows? Mostly repeat dishes, we’re coming down to the wire on… Read More More Fusion from Our Kitchen

Spending all my time eating pizzas on your behalf I’ve forgotten to present a little write-up on last weekend’s dinners. I’m not sure if it’s seasonal or something else, but last week and this we’ve gotten tons of last minute cancellations – not a good thing when you’re prepping food. Thankfully last week we were… Read More A Little Bit of This… A Little Bit of That…

For months when I first came to South America I kept thinking that the menus in Peruvian restaurants had a misspelling. Not in their English translations, which, let’s face it, are ubiquitous, but in the Spanish. Everyone was offering up lomo saltado, “leapt (or leaped) beef”. I was sure they were using the wrong verb… Read More Leaping Beef

“The Carrot has a somewhat obscure history, surrounded by doubt and enigma and it is difficult to pin down when domestication took place. The wide distribution of Wild Carrot, the absence of carrot root remains in archaeological excavations and lack of documentary evidence do not enable us to determine precisely where and when carrot domestication… Read More Of Carrots & Radicchio

I posted last week about a three-class birthday present for one young lady from another, and this week we had the other two sessions. The birthday girl asked for a bit of Peruvian and Brazilian food, so I put together a couple of classes that pulled out some favorites and even added in a new… Read More More class

“Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with. Give us pasta with a hundred fillings.” – Robert Farrar Capon, Episcopal Priest and… Read More Tweaking on the Recetas