A beautiful Monday in New York and a visit to the green market at Union square, allowed me to discover a Japanese pepper called Shishito. This very tasty pepper is sweet-hot, thin-walled green and very popular in Japan. They grow in the summer and are...
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Last night we had a superb dinner. Alfonso found a beautiful piece of leg of lamb at Fairway in Redhook and he served it with really tender roasted vegetables. We had Ciabatta bread as appetizer with mint chutney along with Chimay Ale Premiere. Delicious Saturday...
Paellas are a wonderful thing and Alfonso really knows how to prepare a tasty one. Last night after work I stopped by Whole Food at Union Square to get some groceries and I found mussels from Blue bay in Canada, there were small but tasty...
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Last night we decorated the chocolate cake and finally tasted it. Everything was fine, the combination of flavors, the pastry creme superb (I will include the recipe later), but the texture of the Génoise Cake wasn't quite right. Definitely a great experience for a beginner...
On Monday afternoon I stopped by Whole Food, Union Square and found two nice swordfish steaks from Canada. Alfonso grilled them and served with a nice variety of roasted vegetables. Wonderful Monday dinner. In addition in our constant learning about beer and specially Belgian Beers,...
This weekend we decided to make a chocolate cake with pastry cream and apricot preserve. Literally our weekend was dedicated to this wonderful endeavor.The visual story below is just a little teaser, definitely there are more steps around this little baby.[br] [br] Later today, finishing the cake,...
On Saturday night Alfonso grilled 3 types of sausages (chorizo, chiplote and an Irish style pork sausage) and we served them with "Pebre". At my end I'm working on a layer cake and on our beer tasting post of the month. More to come on...