Dinner reviews from our Casa SaltShaker evenings
We’re still up and running, offering our breads for delivery, as well as private dinners and lunches. Now that Argentina’s government (just yesterday, and like anything they do, subject to reversal) has announced that our borders will reopen on November 2nd, we’re looking at reopening in full in early November. I don’t think there will… Read More We’re Still Working
A last minute booking this weekend for a private dinner for two, celebrating a one year anniversary of dating. Planned for outdoors at our patio table, the weather turned cooler and damp, so we moved the place settings inside, turned on the background lighting, put a candle on the table, and away we went. A tiradito,… Read More A Romantic Eve
Okay, it wasn’t really brunch, as I’d have gone with an entirely different menu, but a lovely group of six for a mid-afternoon meal in the garden was had this last weekend. So what WAS on the menu? A prawn tiradito, the prawns only briefly blanched to set them, then chilled. Dressed in a curing liquid… Read More Sunday “Brunch” at Casa S
With one “re-opening” dinner under our belts, we quickly found ourselves with two more, and then, a dilemma, which will change the way we’re approaching this. First off, as of this weekend, Buenos Aires is back under a semi-quarantine, with very restricted hours and movement. Not like it was a year ago, but it’s a… Read More Whither do we go?
As we announced recently on our website and in various social media, we’re back open on a limited basis. We’re offering private lunches and dinners for groups of 2-6 people outside in the garden, i.e., we’re not going to offer communal table dinners at the big table inside just yet – and I don’t imagine… Read More Back to Work
It’s inexplicable to me that over the near sixteen years you all have been following my adventures in both restaurant and kitchen that I’ve never written up our version of one of the most classic dishes of Peruvian chifa cooking. Yes, I’m talking about the arroz chaufa, or fried rice, the name taken from the Chinese chao fan,… Read More Our Casa’s Chaufa
Just a look back at this month and home-eats, some of which were the products of online classes that I’m offering now! This is not, by any remote stretch, all we ate this month at home, just the ones that for one moment stood out long enough for me to snap a photo and think… Read More February Fry-Ups
Years ago I encountered a classic sausage from a bit north of Paris, the Andouillettes d’Amiens. In its commercial form, it’s made much like a traditional sausage, stuffed into a casing, and has an interesting mix of both ground and coarsely chopped pork, giving a unique texture. Home cooks often make the same sausage sans casing,… Read More It’s Raining Meatballs