A look at local food discoveries, whether it’s a particular dish or an ingredient, often with one or more recipes.
It’s time for one of those occasional posts on favorite dishes we’ve served at Casa SaltShaker over the last weeks. With, this time, a particular emphasis on the evolution of one dish. This is one I’ve been playing around with the idea for quite some time. There’s a classic dish from Ayacucho, Perú, called rocotos rellenos… Read More August Company
This might be the most unusual locro we’ve encountered to date in our exploration of, arguably, Latin America’s most widespread and varied dish. No potatoes, no corn, the main starch is rice. And this is the first to use chicken as the protein. Were I to encounter it without it being named, I’d have just thought… Read More The L Word – Chicken & Rice, So Nice
Eswatini, formerly known as Swaziland, is a landlocked country situated along the eastern side of South Africa, bordering Mozambique. It extends approximately 110 miles (175 km) from north to south and 80 miles (130 km) from west to east, making it just a touch larger than Connecticut, with a population of around 1.2 million people,… Read More The Bread & Soup Project #58 – Eswatini
Staying in the soup and stew world – it is midwinter after all here – I thought it time to return to The L Word project with another version of the ubiquitous South American stew, locro. For those of you who are new to all this, and just as reminder, here’s a little blurb on the history… Read More The L Word – Northern Root
We’re off to the Baltic Sea and States this time around in The Bread & Soup Project. Okay, everyone raise their hands who can tell me anything about Estonia. Thought so. Okay, let’s start with the basics – small country, 17,504 square miles (45,335 square kilometers), putting it about midway between the size of West… Read More The Bread & Soup Project #57 – Estonia
It was an all food week, plus one wine tasting, which I’ll write up separately. Let’s start with a revisit to a place I’ve been to many a time over the years. It was July 4th, and the Horde was feeling a twinge of Americana, so we headed to the one non-fast food-ish place that serves… Read More Sennight #3
Welcome back to the end of a new week and a look back at the things that stood out. I should note, I’m not including everything – you don’t need to see every sandwich or salad I made at home, and if something will be part of another post, like this week’s entry into The… Read More Sennight Glance #2
One of these days I’ll do a little step-by-step for traditional Sardinian malloreddus, literally “little bulls”, also known as gnocchetti sardi, or, little Sardinian gnocchi. Gnocchi means knots, of the sort found in wood, though some say it’s a derivation of nocca, or knuckle. Either way, I didn’t exactly make malloreddus, because these are far too long – they… Read More Not So Little Bulls*