April 2017

Kitchen music

The Kitchen That Rocks

Posted on 20 April 2017
in Lend Me Your Ears
by Bob

   Ah, the hustle and bustle of a busy kitchen. It’s all about energetic and talented people performing purposeful and efficient movements which appear to the outsider like chaos. And the noise(?) – it’s music to my ears. Creating Your Own Rhythm    To some the commotion it generates is just a meaningless cacophony of sounds, but in a way, it’s a bit like free jazz. The sounds produced can be discordant, loosely defined, and can lack regular tempos, but if one listens closely, the orchestration can carefully be sorted out. There’s the…

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Mushroom-potato Bake

Irish Ayes Potato Bake (An Ahead-Of-Time Side)

Posted on 19 April 2017
in Additional Recipes, Sumptuous Sides
by Bob

      We have found hosting a dinner party without auxiliary help to be a bit tricky. If we are assuming the roles of both host and cook, we have to divide our time. We must work in the kitchen and have a socializing presence where we can engage in pre-dinner conversation. Prepare the Dishes Ahead of Time      We can’t be in two places at once. I have found it’s ideal to have the food cooking and much of the preparation done before the guests arrive. As an example, if the entrée is beef bourguignon, we would assemble and…

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Fresh peas

Creamed Peas – An Ahead-Of-Time Side

Posted on 19 April 2017
in Sumptuous Sides
by Bob

      We have found hosting a dinner party without auxiliary help to be a bit tricky. If we are assuming the roles of both host and cook ,we have to divide our time between work in the kitchen and having a socializing presence where we can engage in pre-dinner conversation.      We can’t be in two places at once, so I have found it’s ideal to have the food cooking and much of the preparation done before the guests arrive. As an example, if the entrée is beef bourguignon, we would assemble and begin cooking the dish about five…

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Creamed corn

Creamed Corn – An Ahead-Of-Time Side

Posted on 19 April 2017
in Additional Recipes, Sumptuous Sides
by Bob

      We have found hosting a dinner party without auxiliary help to be a bit tricky. If we are assuming the roles of both host and cook ,we have to divide our time between work in the kitchen and having a socializing presence where we can engage in pre-dinner conversation.      We can’t be in two places at once, so I have found it’s ideal to have the food cooking and much of the preparation done before the guests arrive. As an example, if the entrée is beef bourguignon, we would assemble and begin cooking the dish about five…

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cod

Cod Oven-baked With Herbs

Posted on 12 April 2017
in Fish and Seafood Selections
by Bob

     Have you ever kissed a cod on the lips? Me neither. As a matter of fact the thought of doing so had never even occurred to me until I read an article in The New Yorker magazine (March 27, 2017, page 19) entitled “Plane People:”      “On September 11, 2001, after flights were rerouted to their nearest airports, thirty-eight jets suddenly landed in Gander, Newfoundland, stranding some seven thousand passengers for up to five days in a town with only five hundred hotel rooms.”      The residents of Gander rose to the…

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cod

Cod Oven-baked With Herbs

Posted on 12 April 2017
in Lend Me Your Ears
by Bob

     Have you ever kissed a cod on the lips? Me neither. As a matter of fact the thought of doing so had never even occurred to me until I read an article in The New Yorker magazine (March 27, 2017, page 19) entitled “Plane People:”      “On September 11, 2001, after flights were rerouted to their nearest airports, thirty-eight jets suddenly landed in Gander, Newfoundland, stranding some seven thousand passengers for up to five days in a town with only five hundred hotel rooms.”      The residents of Gander rose to the…

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tight-fisted saver

Scrimp For The Luxuries

Posted on 1 April 2017
in Lend Me Your Ears
by Bob

“Never scrimp on the luxuries; the necessities will take care of themselves” is a quote by Elaine Fried (wife of Willem de Kooning). I think a better piece of advice for us might be to scrimp for the luxuries. Luxuries transcend the ordinary, and for most of us a luxury is just that, a luxury. A little indulgence from time to time makes all of our hard work worthwhile. It’s a special invitation we extend to ourselves to enjoy the unique and the nonessential, and it doesn’t necessarily have to be…

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