January | 2012 | ideas that taste good

Sing a Salad

January 30, 2012 by antdina

Music comes to our ears from composers as a sequence of tones through instruments. Same could be said for the culinary arts. The artist of the kitchen delivers into conceptual reality a song as surely as the poet whispers a world into existence through words. Assuming that you are such a kitchen artist, how might the venerable salad act as a means of communication? First thing to realize is how dynamic this course has become. The modern salad often appears […]

Categories: The Taste Lab • Tags: artist, composer, conceptual reality, cuisine, dressing, experiment, food, jazz, lewis carrol, music, salad, taste, vinegairette

All dressed up…

January 23, 2012 by antdina

Behind the magic of a well prepared salad lies the hidden thread of dressing. From simple oil and vinegar to complex concoctions with exotic ingredients, this cold sauce turns garden harvest into a dish. The origin of dressing might be associated to the Mediterranean where olive oil was lathered onto anything even stuff that did not make it past lips. Romans bathed in oil, scraping dirt off along with the oil. Oil also played it’s part in signifying the important in the […]

Categories: The Taste Lab • Tags: bitter, Cuisinart, dressing, greens, salad, salty, sour, sweet, umami

Breakfast gift…remembered

January 23, 2012 by antdina

The holiday season brings out the giving spirit. The question is how does an omelette express that? Quite simple. When your best friend offers to make breakfast with leftovers. Slyly pushing past the ordinary , My Hunney palms two organic zucchini. Into the pan they go without any complaint. Almost happy to be rescued from the icy fridge. Sliced onions join. Bubbling and sizzling until their caramel personalities emerge. Then the duck breast. Christmas eve included a dance with one […]

Categories: Food Finds • Tags: adam ross, christmas eve, cuisine, duck breast, lamb shank, omelette, right brain, vanilla bean

Fairytale dinner

January 9, 2012 by antdina

It does not take falling into a rabbit hole, downing a bottle of “drink me” or squeezing through a tiny door to go into another world. If you want adventure and to see the smile of the Cheshire simply cross the portal of the Herbfarm. No time have I a found a living expression of my working theory that food can be a tool to communicate so close as this. Like high art of poetry, dance or painting, complex ideas […]

Categories: Food Finds, Storytelling • Tags: Alice in Wonderland, celebration, cuisine, dining, food, growing herbs, herb, herbfarm, rabbit hole, restaurant, Seattle, story of alice, truffle, white apron, wine

Roast and toast

January 1, 2012 by antdina

When you forge bonds at work, travel together, respectively meet families, then you have succeed in one of life’s finest accomplishments. So how might we celebrate this friendship? Invite them to dine. Such was the opportunity when My Hunney and I were lucky enough to have Stori and Fred to our home. What to serve? How might we rejoice in their company. Stori and Fred are famous red wine drinkers. When neon green margarita’s flow from silver fountains at a […]

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