Month: October 2020
10/25/20 SALMON WITH BEARNAISE SAUCE, RICE, AND GREEN BEANS
This Sunday I made salmon with Béarnaise sauce. The salmon was just pan-fried. For the sauce, I used the recipe from Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking on page 84-85. The Béarnaise sauce was very, very hard to make. It took me at least 5 tries (and well over a dozen eggs) to […]
Continue Reading...10/18/20 CASSOULET
For this Sunday’s post, I made cassoulet. It took three days to make. The recipe I used was primarily from Michael Schlow’s cookbook It’s About Time on page 149, but I also added some extras recommended by Julia Child. Cassoulet is a mixture of white beans (I used Cannellini Beans), garlic sausage, duck confit, and […]
Continue Reading...10/11/20 KEY LIME PIE WITH HOMEGROWN MACADAMIA NUTS
Today’s posting is key lime pie with macadamia nuts. The pie used the traditional graham cracker crust, but I added macadamia nuts to the crust and sprinkled the nuts on the top. I also added lime to the whipped cream topping. It was very delicious. The macadamia nuts were grown from our own macadamia nut […]
Continue Reading...10/4/20 PAELLA WITH LOBSTER, RABBIT, MUSSELS, CHORIZO, SHRIMP, AND CHICKEN
For this Sunday’s post, I made Spanish paella. Paella is from Valencia, Spain and is made of rice and leftovers. That is why it tends to use a variety of meats and seafoods. This was my first time making paella. The dish was quite hard. I cooked the paella on the grill because it dispersed […]
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