Posted in Entrees, New American Chef, Spanish Cuisine on March 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Arroz Negro: Catalan Black Rice
Recipe by Jose Andres
Looks can kill, your taste buds, that is.
Two cups of super starchy rice to 4 cups of (chunky) liquid, cook 10 minutes? Psych! The New American Chef needs to meet me outside. Full of lies, pomposity and a serious case of left out information, we are quickly [...]
Posted in Entrees, New American Chef, Spanish Cuisine on March 23, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Finally, success.
What was needed, here in our petite kitchen, was something to regain some confidence. Enter Spanish tortilla. Well prepped by my lovely wife (taking over a job once chaired by some handsome guy in the same house), the boil/fry technique was something new. Jam about as many potatoes (1/8 in slice) and bunch of [...]
Posted in Entrees, New American Chef, Spanish Cuisine on March 22, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Good lord, $25 bucks worth of ingredients and 8 hours of cooking time, 1 glorious pound of butter, and a whole lot of swearing. Thanks Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page. Thank you for making me second guess every bit of culinary education stored in my gray matter.
It all started with what sounded like an easy [...]
Posted in Entrees, New American Chef, Spanish Cuisine on March 20, 2007 | 4 Comments »
For our first recipe out of the New American Chef we chose the Barcelona-style Flounder with Raisins, Nuts, Lemon Butter, and Anise.
But, this being Seattle and this being the first week of halibut season, halibut it was. Sorry flounder.
The recipe was fairly straightforward. Dredge the fish in a mix of flour, paprika, salt and [...]
Posted in New American Chef on March 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
For our first month we choose the cookbook The New American Chef, by Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page. This book highlights 10 international cuisines from Italian to Vietnamese. I figured it would be a good way to get some variety this month.
And I, not looking forward to a month of country specific cuisine, was thrilled [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Welcome to the cooking crowes. As a way to put my growing cooking collection to use (over 100), my husband and I decided to pick one cookbook to cook out of for each month of the year-this way when we finish I can buy more. I was inspired by the Julia/Julie project, a Seattle based [...]
