This picture is from June 2006 when I first developed this dish. The camera I used was an original circa 2000 Kodak DC3200, with its 1.2 megapixel CCD sensor and an additional 256M flash card. While the camera still works and is sitting right behind me, we’ve been using duct tape to keep the battery […]
Eat This Blog: Saturday’s Dinner, a Stuffed-Salmon Terrine
Saturday evening at the Frog Leg Inn in Erie during my annual “Daddy-Daughter Date” with Briahna, I had my first taste of Chef Cedric’s Asparagus & Wild Mushroom-Stuffed Salmon Terrine. Fresh Atlantic salmon lines an oiled bowl, and the inside is stuffed with an asparagus and wild mushroom stuffing. This is steamed for about 20 minutes, and is then inverted into a […]
Recipe: Sirloin Shepherd’s Pie
This is a seriously flavorful dish! Traditionally made with ground lamb, Mary kicked up the flavor on her family’s Shepherd’s Pie recipe yesterday evening by replacing the ground lamb with fresh ground sirloin. The resulting dish was so tender I had difficulty getting it out of the bowl in one piece so I could shoot a […]
Eat This Blog: Muskrat Dinner at Erie VFW Post 3295
In a nutshell: This dinner, a Muskrat Dinner served at Erie VFW Post 3295 yesterday evening, was far nicer, far tastier, far more satisfying than I had imagined it would be. There was no “gaminess” to the meal I ate, which you can see in the above photo. Mary said she had one bite that tasted […]
Recipe: Traditional Chicken Noodle Soup
Click here for an updated version of this recipe, posted on January 14, 2019. So yesterday evening the 6 p.m. news starts on Toledo’s 13abc and it’s our buddy Zack Ottenstein, anchoring by his loneseome self as he has done quite a few times this past week. About a half hour after the broadcast ends, the phone […]
BBC Documentary: Swiss Spaghetti Harvest of 1957
And you thought you knew where spaghetti came from.
Recipe: Church Window Cookies
Yeah, I’ve been a bit remiss in getting these cookie recipes posted. The fact is I made these Church Window Cookies earlier this week. This evening, 13abc’s Zack Ottenstein came off his first-ever solo anchoring at the news desk, headed directly to our house, had dinner with us while still in makeup … and then Briahna […]
Recipe: Improvising Breakfast Skillets
Lately, Mary and I have been getting into the whole Breakfast Skillet thing. We’ve always enjoyed them at restaurants where decent ones are served. Of course, there are restaurants where a so-called “breakfast skillet” is nothing more than layers of ingredients from different parts of the kitchen. Open-face biscuits topped with browned sausage topped with […]
Video: Making Individual Filet Wellingtons
In the second video from the series from the Chef’s Table on November 8th, there’s a new video posted on this page on the making of Individual Filet Wellingtons. Yes, a Jaccard is a sharp object. And no, my thumb is not … Even though we know we’re still in need of lighting and a […]
Video: Making Acorn Squash Bowls for Squash Soup
It’s difficult if not impossible to post videos in here without a Mac. WordPress doesn’t like some of the underlying code for embedding videos from YouTube. But in the Mac version that dislike is broken, so posting videos from a Mac actually works. Go figure … Anyway, over at the Frog Leg Inn’s web site I’ve […]