Tonight I made some fish. I’m always looking for simple preparations; full flavors are good too. Here, I used a soy-based gingery, garlicky sauce with some heat. I covered an orange roughy filet with the sauce and baked it in a 400 degree oven for 12 minutes until fully cooked, with firm flesh. The side dishes […]
Archive for July, 2008
Jul28
Hung Huynh up for Bocuse
Top Chef Hung is up for the prestigious Bocuse d’Or later this year.
Filed in: Banter
Jul27
Chicken with Pasta
Our wonderful dinner started with a special salad, hinting with garlic, but highlighting delicious summer tomatoes in red and yellow. Toasted pine nuts added crunch, and Maytag Dairy blue cheese was tucked away in all the appropriate places for a salty, unique bite. Salt and pepper topped it all, amid a mixture of crunchy greens. “The messy […]
Filed in: In the Kitchen Italian
Jul21
Steak at Home
It was Saturday. That means Belmont Butchery on Belmont in Richmond is open! Time for some good, quality meat. Oven roasted asparagus with garlic was one item up for the plate; another was some butter-basted garlic potatoes. More attention was devoted to the mushroom sauce. crimini mushrooms butter salt, pepper 1/4 sweet onion garlic dried thyme 1 strip bacon red wine (in this case, […]
Filed in: In the Kitchen Meat and Steaks
Jul21
Tale of Two Pastas
I like noodles. A variety, really, usually going between what could be termed “Asian” and those in the pasta family from Italy. I recently made two recipes I thought I’d share. The first is based on a recipe I watched on TV with my very favorite female cook, The Barefoot Contessa. It takes a real woman […]
Filed in: Asian In the Kitchen Italian