December 2009 Archives

Happy New Year's Eve, and the day to follow!!! May your merriment exceed the pain you'll feel in the morning.

I've opened an older '95 Bordeaux, and we've had a simple dinner of broiled salmon served with an roasted apple/garlic/pinot reduction, along with some quinoa and peas, poached in some chicken stock I made today. Julie picked up a panettone for a snack, and we're most certainly in for the evening.

Happy New Year's, friends. It's been an interesting decade. Where were you 10 years ago tonight?

Merry Christmas from Julie, me and Desert Island Foods®.com! I hope you have a safe, relaxed and meaningful holiday. Whatever you celebrate, we wish you the very best. We're hitting the road today to visit family, so as always, orders won't ship again after today until after the first of the year. Thanks for a surprisingly good Christmas season, considering our stripped down product mix this year, fortunately everyone still loves Survival Spice®!!! I hope you're using it on your turkey or ham this year.

Email me pictures of your Christmas culinary creations, if you'd like to share.

Dawn Wells shows how to peel a potato, and no- that's not a metaphor. Thanks to Kathleen for the link:

We've been trying to eat a little lighter lately, so I've been making a lot of Paleo diet type of dishes. This was eggplant slices I dipped in a simple marinade and roasted on a rack over a sheet pan until they were nice and brown, then topped with slices of cod that I had sauteed in olive oil and some butter.

I finished it off with a sauce I made from fresh ginger, soy, sherry, sesame oil, chili garlic paste and some scallions that I let come together while I cooked off the other stuff.

Really good, and good for you! Where's the ice cream?