During the few short years I was a child, if one queried me about favourite dish, I would inevidably reply, “spaghetti”. Of course, I was referring to the common pasta with a tomato based meat sauce that didn’t come anywhere near being an authentic Bolognese. In fact, I believe my mother’s recipe consisted of home-stewed […]
Mushrooms are meat and like any meat, they are what they eat.
The golden chanterelles of the Pacific Coast Mountain Range of Oregon feast upon the water that drains from the corpses of flimsy second growth fir trees and feathery chartreuse moss. Likewise, at the top of any given drainage, there is usually a scattered assemblage […]
Yes, this is a newly hatched blog and in a world of blogs, it does have a purpose. In the past, I have been wedging information and photographs, documenting two of my obsessions, into my personal journal. One of those obsessions is food, which, of course, precipitates into the activities of cooking and dining out. […]
Here, we have our Thanksgiving dinner consisting of: A 6 lb organic, free-range chicken that was lovingly crammed full of whole shallots sprigs of thyme and madarin kumquat hybrid fruit (what we like to call “the manquat” around these parts), then slathered with herb butter and fresh squeezed orange juice and roasted; roasted sunchokes; oyster […]