Kitchen Notes

because success is a poor teacher

   
cooking

cheeses

wines

restaurants

books

about kitchen notes

Cooking is about taking risks and trying new things, and knowing when to throw the recipe out the window.  Things turn out one of two ways when you cook that way: amazing or catastrophic. This blog is an attempt to capture my successes and failures, so that I might be able to make that wonderful Pumpkin Lobster Bisque again or someday improve my bread making skills. I hope that these notes will be as useful to you as they are to me.

'Focaccaboutit'
25 Mar 2005

So, now that I know how to make my own Focaccia bread (and it only takes a couple hours), I don't think that I'll ever buy it again. This time I quadrupled the recipe and changed it up a bit. I found that this size batch fits perfectly on my 1/2 sheet pan, so here ... (more)

Ok, so I was never much of a fan of goat cheeses before I met Tracy, but now I can't get enough of them. Tracy likes the younger ones while I like the aged ones, so we've honed in on cheeses like Humbolt Fog and Boucheron because the inside is fresh and chalky, and the outside is aged and creamy, but I was out for something entirely new. While T has been in Honduras for her shark stuff, I've been able go off the deep end with aged cheeses ... (more)
 

About the Author | RSS Feed