What is chorizo? Depending on where you come from in the world, depends on what you think about when you hear the word ‘chorizo’. In Europe people tend to think of chorizo as a dry cured smoked sausage from Spain or other parts of the Iberian Peninsula. In North American, people tend to associate chorizo …
The Kitchen Sink
Jul 24
Summer’s Star: Baked Ratatouille
It isn’t often that I get into a food rut, but it does happen. There are very few things, other than time, that can yank me out of that rut. One of the no-brainers though, is a good farm-share week. This week our farm share kicked into high gear and gave me a great collection …
Jul 22
Homemade Peach Ice Cream, No Excuse Needed to make this Cool Treat
To make Homemade Peach Ice Cream, fresh handpicked peaches are not absolute requirement. Yes, the peaches used in this ice cream recipe were handpicked but because so many peaches had been picked, the peaches used for this batch of homemade ice cream been frozen whole and peeled and stoned at a later date. One of …
Jul 21
Zen and the art of making aioli sauce
I was at dinner the other night, speaking about food while we were eating, when Janette told us that her husband had been trying to make aioli sauce. He had first tried to make it in a blender, but had given up in frustration, but after watching an episode of Anthony Bourdain’s ‘No Reservations’ in …
Jul 21
Simmered Grape Pulp + Cheese Cloth = Homemade Grape Jelly
Recently I picked about 15 – 20 pounds of wild Mustang Grapes near my house and generated 15 Cups of Grape Pulp after boiling down the whole grapes and straining the mixture through a colander to separate the juice and pulp from the skins and seeds. I was prepared to make three batches of Homemade …