All Things Chill

2 lbs. Ground lamb, 2 tablespoons of Dijon mustard and a generous addition of Kosher salt and freshly cracked pepper. Use your hands and incorporate well, then shape into 4 small or 2 big patties (I did 3). Throw on a pre-heated saute pan 4 minutes on each side or until medium rare. [...]

This butter and radish thing is getting out of hand. I remember watching it during a No Reservations episode and then in a trashy magazine that I found while perusing the Barnes and Noble shelves. I’ve never really had radishes growing up – Filipino recipes don’t really call for it (mainly because it [...]

Picked up our Christmas trees at McMurtrey’s Red-Wood Christmas Tree Farm. Deb and Matt cut down a really happy tree, while Liana and I went the “Charlie Brown Christmas Tree” route. Hee hee. Mission success! You can see the pictures at the Flickr album. All we have to do is [...]

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~Spec

Liana – November 26, 2008. I loves her.
~Herschell

Rock the same tomato cream sauce from here (preferably frozen from the peak of tomato season before the addition of cream), get your pasta water goin’ and preheat a skillet over medium high heat.
Pat your seafood dry and add a knob of butter in the pan until it sizzles with joy. Yes, [...]

Youtube link here. I’m not convinced that Kanye West is best suited for long strings of choruses, but the the driving beats, the perpetual wave of synths and the “sing, but you want to shout it at the top of your lungs” lyrics are too powerful for me to ignore. I’d be remiss [...]

Fried shrimp with vinegared cabbage slaw, sliced avocado and romesco sauce on a petite baguette
PO’ BOY! I’ve been meaning to use the rest of the romesco sauce that I made with my steak a few days ago.. and after some thought, I really feel like it would go really well with seafood – perhaps [...]

I just recently subscribed to Ryan Farr’s 3-month old blog to my huge list of Google Reader feeds. WOOP WOOP. Back in San Francisco, he came out to do a few demos in the demo kitchen waaay back in the day. Ahh, the memories. Here’s an excerpt from his site:
Farr then [...]

Trout stuffed with chanterelle mushrooms, sliced onions, spinach, garlic and lemon. Trout! When looking for a healthy and easy dinner, whole roasted fish is always a viable choice… especially when it’s only $5 and they scale and clean it for you! Of course you could start by using fillets, but there’s a [...]

Strip Steak, seared on a medium high heat pan, served with a Polenta Cake and Romesco Sauce. If you’ve made a pesto before in your mortar and pestle or food processor, romesco isn’t that big of a stretch for you. It’s a spicy sauce has a base of almonds, bread, tomatoes, paprika, cayenne [...]