Epic Food Scan 3: Aspic Asteroid

Here we go with another food scan.  This wonderful looking culinary asteroid is an aspic salad.  While I do not doubt that the skill level required to make this epic creation is pretty high, the results are less then appetizing. Can you imagine getting a nice slice of this goodness? Can you imagine letting a …

Homemade Pasta

Again ….. I know we’ve already had a post about homemade pasta. I just wanted to add a couple of more points and some pictures. I agree with everything my food blog contemporary has said about making pasta. Its easy, enjoyable and the stuff you buy at the store is crap. Don’t get me wrong, …

Roast Garlic Basil Pesto Experiment

I had a hankering for pesto pasta and thought I’d try a little experiment. I threw a couple of cloves of garlic and a handful of pine nuts in a pot, submersed them in olive oil and cooked/poached them for 15 minutes on my lowest output burner on the lowest setting. I let the mix …

Food Scan 1: You and Your Kitchen

Our first food scan takes us into the modern kitchen. Here, finally, in one place, are all the items a modern chef will need to get cooking… All joking aside, not much has changed when you really look at it.  But my god, look at the colors! Click on the image to see it in …

New Feature: Epic Food Scans!

I was recently over for dinner at a friends house.  He brought out a few books that his dad had rescued from a local thrift store.  One giant and slightly off smelling tome, called “The Creative Cooking Course”, is an opus to haute cuisine of the late 60’s and 70’s shown through the jaded eyes …