Close up of baked pepper |
Veal medallions were stuffed with julienned zucchini, dredged in flour and fried with sliced onion and a sage leaf. |
Food and food photos mostly but I try to share a bit about how I come up with the food I present here. They are dishes that I cook and eat everyday. Nothing is specially created for the blog and most of the photos are just taken with my phone. I want to show that eating well and investing the time to cook is not that hard nor time consuming and can be a lot of fun.
Better than oatmeal. |
Making a dough ball about the size of a ping pong ball; good for authentic tacos. |
Pressing dough between sheets of plastic flat with side of a bench scraper. |
Work from center and flatten tortilla toward edges, rotating the dough. |
Makes about a four inch tortilla. |
Cook about 30 - 40 seconds on a side. |
Out of the oven, rested and topped with more pepper jack, pimento and cilantro. |
Just out of oven. |
Stuffed with rice, cheese and topped with jalapeno slices and red onion. |
Mexican rice with fresh tomato, red onion, garlic and safflower cooked risotto style. |
Mexican rice risotto style cooking. |
Ready for crostini or pasta. |
Greens, garlic and pistachios in food processor. |
Radish greens just picked from the garden. |
Freshly grated Parmesan Reggiano. This is very aged cheese and was a workout to grate even with Microplane. |