Food Friday: Everyday I Write the (Cook) Book 1970s style

Last week I featured a  "homemade" version of a community cookbook. This week, I decided to feature another example.This week's Food Friday recipe comes from Teacher's Pets from the staff at Berlyn Avenue School (1971-1972). There is no city indicated in the cookbook but it was purchased in Claremont, California and there is a Berlyn Avenue...

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Duck Tongues. Two ways. Slow Simmer and Oven Braised

DUCK TONGUES !OFFAL DELICIOUSYES, ducks do have tonguesYES, people DO eat them and...YES...i DID go there.SUPER FUN STRANGEyet quite deliciousnow i see why these are considered a bar-snack or dim sum nibble in the Asian culture.  once you give in and try one you'll find yourself with a pile of 20 or so bones that you've sucked clean.  aside...

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Fantastic pear cake

This cake has quickly become one of our favorites. I was introduced to it by Ruth, a food blogger from the UK who now lives in Sweden, and she has it from the ever-famous one-of-the-first food blogger Clotilde of Chocolate & Zucchini.I've made it twice - once with the almonds and once without, and it's not much of a difference. I like almonds so...

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Hazelnut Mousse with Salted Hazelnuts

 Here's the dessert I made for this year's 13-course dinner! My given flavor for this was hazelnut. so it was a no-brainer. Very easy to make, and more importantly, delicious.The recipe comes from Roy Fares book Sweet.Hazelnut Mousse with Salted Hazelnuts8 small servings50 g hazelnut nougat (I use one from Danish Odense)50 g milk chocolate200...

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Homemade Squirty Cheese

You may rightfully ask what could possess me to assay squirty cheese (aka easy cheese) at home, when the whole point is obviously convenience. I think it was the challenge. The Gods willed me to do it: a bag of sodium citrate arrived in the mail and I found a whipped cream dispenser replete with gas cartridges - I have no idea where it came from! Here's...

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Spicy Mexican Braised Pig Snouts

NOSE to taili suppose you are only here if you are TRULY into nose to tail eating...OR if this purely fascinates or disgusts you.maybe just a LOOKY-LOO ?BUT think of it this way...THAT WHOLE PIG GAVE UP IT'S LIFE FOR YOUR SLICE OF BACON.we need to think out of the box...away from the "chop"i know here in So California there isn't a lot of enthusiasm,...

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Food Friday: Krispy Cheese Wafers

Community cookbooks come in all formats. While we tend to associate them with having a comb binding, sometimes they are very simply put together.Recipes from Salem Church gives us few clues to the place that it originated. The handwritten title, typewritten recipes, and staples suggest that it is pre 1990. Unfortunately, the Salem United Methodist...

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Mustard-Tarragon Pork Stew

Quick, simple and utterly delicious. Both my kids loved this - Titus was pretty sure the meat was chicken, and as he's in a super-picky phase, we didn't really set him straight on this matter. You certainly could cook this with chicken, if you were so inclined...Mustard-Tarragon Pork Stewserves 4600 g pork tenderloin (or what I used, fläskytterfilé)...

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The "Billionaire Burger", Foie Gras, Francois Payard and The Cosmopolitan

THE BILLIONAIRE BURGERfrom Holstein's at THE COSMOPOLITANKobe beef, a healthy slab O' FOIS GRAS sliding off gruyere cheese and onion marmalade.oh...did i mention the TRUFFLE mayonnaise ?...NEED I SAY MORE ?a side of FOIE GRASfrom  STK, at the Cosmopolitani suggest you get a side of FOIE GRAS on anything you order...and get...

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Late round-up from my New York trip

How is it possible I haven't told you about all of this already? My trip was in November! However, when I got home, the holidays happened.. and it's been pretty intense. So better late than never, I suppose! Here's a quick round-up of all the foodie things me and Lena were up to this time. Before leaving, I had breakfast at Starbucks. Nothing...

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