Thoughts of a Middle Aged Man

Last Thursday and today, my friend Nick and I attended a sauce cooking class put on by the Laguna Culinary Arts school. Thursday’s class was sauces for meat and today’s class was sauces for fish. We had the same instructor that we had for the pasta classes we attended a while back.
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Many years ago, Annette and I planted a peach tree in our backyard, which according to the local nursery, was a special hybrid that would produce peaches even with the mild winters we have close to the pacific coast. Over the years we got some delicious peaches, but usually a small crop of only [...]

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For an early Father’s Day present, my wife went down to Sur La Table, and purchased an 18″ carbon steel paella pan. I have been playing around with basic paella ingredients such as spanish chorizo sausage and smoked paprika but I have been restricted by using my standard size saute pan. With this [...]

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Sorry about the lack of posts, but in reality, things have been quiet, if not boring around the place. That changed as rooms started filling up this week. Our son is down from college for the summer and on Thursday Jim and Ivana arrived from New Zealand for a 10 day stay. [...]

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We hosted a pasta making party over Memorial Day Weekend, and it turns out making pasta in a large group is a fun way to fill an afternoon. Five of us mixed the flour and eggs by hand, then the whole group help roll the pasta with the old hand crank pasta roller or [...]

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After my daughter left for New Zealand and then my son went off to college, I started cooking dinner for just my wife and I. Cooking for two was hard. I was still making two much food each night. Leftovers were going uneaten. I was finding it hard to cut recipes down [...]

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We held our second annual St. Patty’s day party on Saturday. The first annual consisted of a total of 6 people and a six pack of Guinness. The party expanded this year to a total of 14, so the third annual could be a whopping 28. This year extravaganza included traditional Irish [...]

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Annette picked up a video camera this weekend, and I made a little cooking video based on the Spinach Ruben Sandwich that we had for dinner tonight. We are new at this and I hope we get better on upcoming videos. Enjoy

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My Dad use to say the difference between a regular meal and a gourmet meal is the gourmet meal has more butter. Gary, one of the Seamhead Tour members, was asked by his kids his favorite food, in anticipation of preparing his answer for his birthday meal. His answer was sauce, anything with [...]

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A while back I got a new chef toy, the Vita-Mix blender, and it has become my new cooking partner. With enough power to grind nuts, this machine will mix anything, anytime and in minutes. It all started when I needed a new blender to create a [...]

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