Thursday, May 15, 2008
Bizcocho de Chocolate (Chocolate cake)
New entry. Yummy yummy. A delicious dessert from Durango (Basque Country). Thanks Sai!
First post, First pictures!!!
Hi there!
The idea for this blog is simple, I just want to publish pictures of your cooked meals (breakfasts, lunch, dinners, tapas,...) by yourselves.
This is not a "how to cook" blog. This is just a "I can cook" blog XD.
So if you have any pictures of this kind (before cooking, after cooking...) send them to CookingYourCountry@gmail.com and I will publish here as soon as possible.
I won't use this blog for commecial purposes, so you will always own your picture's rights.
And for the very first time, I am opening it with the first of all. Yeray, from Madrid (Spain) sent me one of his dinners, Tempura:
Before:
After:
Thanks Yeray!
If you want your 10 seconds of glory as a global cook, here is your chance!
Bye!
The idea for this blog is simple, I just want to publish pictures of your cooked meals (breakfasts, lunch, dinners, tapas,...) by yourselves.
This is not a "how to cook" blog. This is just a "I can cook" blog XD.
So if you have any pictures of this kind (before cooking, after cooking...) send them to CookingYourCountry@gmail.com and I will publish here as soon as possible.
I won't use this blog for commecial purposes, so you will always own your picture's rights.
And for the very first time, I am opening it with the first of all. Yeray, from Madrid (Spain) sent me one of his dinners, Tempura:
Before:
After:
Thanks Yeray!
If you want your 10 seconds of glory as a global cook, here is your chance!
Bye!
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Loafing about
I did it, I finally did it. I baked bread. Proper tasty, delicious bread with a light and fluffy interior and an incredible crust. I managed to exorcise my demons and banish the bread gremlins to the proverbial dustbin (along with the many corpses of failed loaves past) so from now on we’ll be able to have the freshest bread whenever we want. Which is a good job really because it seems as if I won’t be able to afford to buy it for much longer considering the price of bread appears to be rising faster than the one I baked this morning. So to every failed loaf, every sunken effort, every chewy, dense and inedible example, each loaf that dripped with vindictive scorn as it steadfastly refused to behave in the manner in which it should – you’re toast. Metaphorically, at least.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Scarpetta
May 13
Scott Conant got Spanish dancers (I think Flamenco, but I don’t really know) to perform last night at the opening of his new Italian restaurant Scarpetta (where Gin Lane was, in case you follow that sort of thing). That’s cool — no reason to overdo the theme, and Spanish dancing’s sexy.
I interviewed Scott about the restaurant yesterday, and he said he wanted it to be sexy — fun, relaxed, a place where you feel comfortable letting your hair down, picking up a piece of bread and sopping up sauce with it.
That sauce-soaked bread is called a scarpetta, and the restaurant’s logo is a streak of sauce.
The party was also a launch party for Scott’s cookbook, “Bold Italian,” a copy of which is now sitting on my desk.
It was a good party. There was plenty of food — pasta, pea soup, calamari, hamachi crudo — the wine flowed freely, and the food world turned up in respectable numbers. And prestigious ones, too. Florence Fabricant stopped by, and the inimitable
Kate Krader from Food & Wine and Nilou Motamed from Travel + Leisure. Both are inimitable, they really are — that's them in the picture. Aren’t they inimitable? (You can also see the profile of Caryl Chinn, event planner and former girlfriend of Todd English).
I met Chris Shott, a real estate reporter from The New York Observer, who praised the Soverign Beck tie I was wearing.
Marissa May, the manager of San Domenico stopped by, too, which makes sense since Scott worked there for four years, starting in 1990. San Domenico is giving up its lease this June, and theoretically moving to a new location. Skeptics have said that it will probably just close down, for good, but Marissa indicated that they have, indeed, found a new space, and they’ll announce it on June 19, which is the restaurant’s 20th anniversary. She said the designer of the new space will be Massimo Vignelli. So that’s exciting.
Nutritionist and public health advocate extraordinaire Marion Nestle was at the party, too. She told me about her new book, coming out this September, about the pet food recall and what it means for our food supply generally. It’s called “Pet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine.” Isn’t that a good title?
I finished out the evening — and pretty much closed the party — hanging out with Josh Ozersky and his friend Abbe.
Good times.
Scott Conant got Spanish dancers (I think Flamenco, but I don’t really know) to perform last night at the opening of his new Italian restaurant Scarpetta (where Gin Lane was, in case you follow that sort of thing). That’s cool — no reason to overdo the theme, and Spanish dancing’s sexy.I interviewed Scott about the restaurant yesterday, and he said he wanted it to be sexy — fun, relaxed, a place where you feel comfortable letting your hair down, picking up a piece of bread and sopping up sauce with it.
That sauce-soaked bread is called a scarpetta, and the restaurant’s logo is a streak of sauce. The party was also a launch party for Scott’s cookbook, “Bold Italian,” a copy of which is now sitting on my desk.
It was a good party. There was plenty of food — pasta, pea soup, calamari, hamachi crudo — the wine flowed freely, and the food world turned up in respectable numbers. And prestigious ones, too. Florence Fabricant stopped by, and the inimitable
Kate Krader from Food & Wine and Nilou Motamed from Travel + Leisure. Both are inimitable, they really are — that's them in the picture. Aren’t they inimitable? (You can also see the profile of Caryl Chinn, event planner and former girlfriend of Todd English).I met Chris Shott, a real estate reporter from The New York Observer, who praised the Soverign Beck tie I was wearing.
Marissa May, the manager of San Domenico stopped by, too, which makes sense since Scott worked there for four years, starting in 1990. San Domenico is giving up its lease this June, and theoretically moving to a new location. Skeptics have said that it will probably just close down, for good, but Marissa indicated that they have, indeed, found a new space, and they’ll announce it on June 19, which is the restaurant’s 20th anniversary. She said the designer of the new space will be Massimo Vignelli. So that’s exciting.
Nutritionist and public health advocate extraordinaire Marion Nestle was at the party, too. She told me about her new book, coming out this September, about the pet food recall and what it means for our food supply generally. It’s called “Pet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine.” Isn’t that a good title?
I finished out the evening — and pretty much closed the party — hanging out with Josh Ozersky and his friend Abbe.
Good times.
Thank you my dear friends from the blogosphere
I would like to take the opportunity to thanks all the dear food bloggers who are recommending my blog and coming back and visiting it. You are all making my day. I would like to thank Jenn, The Leftover Queen, for recommending my blog in her Finest Foodie Friday, Frida from Farida’s Azerbaijani Cookbook, for the Arte Y Pico Award and Deeba from Passionate about Baking for the You Make my Day Award. Thank you very much, I love you all!!!
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