My attitudes to wine are changing

While I have always loved the good wines and have lashed out occasionally to buy 50-80-100-120 $ bottles of wine and really savoured them, my attitudes towards them are changing recently. When I tasted a 100$ bottle of wine and it tasted great, my reactions and comments on the wine were just about the wine…

Middle Eastern Style Salad

This is a little salad I put together to go with a Moroccan style chicken Breast cutlets.  I have that separately posted.  Here is the link to Chicken – Pseudo Moroccan. I started by seeding and chopping tomatoes into about half inch dice. Peel, Seed and chop English cucumber, about 1/2 of a large one. …

Chicken – Pseudo Moroccan

I needed a quick cooking chicken recipe for a summer day when most of it happened on the outside grill.  I wanted something from the Middle East, may be Morocco or thereabouts. 1 teaspoon Cumin Seeds 1 teaspoon Coriander seeds 1 teaspoon Fennel Seeds Toast all of these over Medium heat till they are fragrant. …

An Experiment in Recreation – Bottarga

Bottarga – An Italian ingredient that I love but cannot really afford it as much as I want to. I was thinking about what Bottarga is; well it is smoked cakes of dried fish roe that you grate over some fresh Pasta or may be silky potato puree.  But in a functional description, it adds…