So I come home from the grocery store, through the rain, and start putting away the groceries. I keep a chicken breast out for myself for lunch. Feeling inspired I melt a couple of tablespoons of butter, add some slivered almonds and another spoonful of liverwurst. I am going to add pepper but the grinder… Continue reading How Not to Cook
Author: james romanow
Sairey Gamp’s Summer Tomato Linguine
Here’s the kind of thing you can do with fresh herbs and fruit. Saute a diced onion (we used a vidalia last night) Add a couple of diced celery stalks to the onions and cook a bit more. Add as many sliced drained olives as suits (we add about 1/2 cup). Add three medium tomatos… Continue reading Sairey Gamp’s Summer Tomato Linguine
Summer Sauces
When you get right down to it, most of the ingredients in our food our quite dull: meat, starch, veg. If you want to improve them you have to dress them up. Onions and nuts to the rice, butter and lemon over the broccoli, and hollandaise over the meat (and everything else for that matter.… Continue reading Summer Sauces
Interior Design and Bubbly
So I spent most of yesterday afternoon putting together a new shelving unit, for the office. It goes well with the tres cool Hermann Miller desk. The unit is a Blu Dot Chicago 8 if you care. I quite recommend Blu Dot stuff based on this (our only Blu Dot) piece. Celebrated with a bottle… Continue reading Interior Design and Bubbly
Organic White Wines
Having got my little rant about the value of organic off my chest, here’s a lineup of interesting organic whites. Villa Teresa was a ground breaking organic winery, at least in the sense they deliberately stayed organic. (There are many European wineries that are organic, because they refused to change anything their great-great-great grandfathers did;… Continue reading Organic White Wines