Food & Drink

Crab Gumbo

Uck. This just looks nasty. The seeds, and slimy nature of okra just doesn't do anything good here. I think gumbo is just inherently not very photogenic, but this is particularly awful. It didn't taste awful, but that doesn't matter too much -- if what you're eating looks like garbage, it's going to have a serious hampering effect on your enjoyment of it...

Combat Bread

I'm an excellent bread baker, just like Rainman was an excellent driver. Some people say that baking is a science, while cooking is an art form (and that a pâtissier can make a great cook on account of the accuracy that is required in baking). I dunno about all that. Baking isn't science -- it's black freakin' magic. And I must have forgotten to say the magic words, cause the yeast fairy or wh...

Potato Soup & Salad

Soup of potato, carrot and leek. A salad with garlic-rosemary bread. Very nice on hot and cold days. I tried making some clever and artistic yin-yang teardrops with some cream, but that didn't work out. I should have tried to make a smiley face instead. Apparently, you're not supposed to try create the actual shape when you drop cream in a soup -- you should just drop a blob in and then manip...

Red Thai Chicken Curry

Another "No, really -- it TASTES good, honest!"-dish... It was supposed to use tiny, itty-bitty potatoes, but these were the smallest I could find. I should have cut them up a bit more -- as well as the chicken. And I should have made the sauce a LOT thicker. What a mess. But it tasted great. Honest.

Clam Chowder

I really like clam chowder, but for some reason, I just don't make it very often. It may be that I've got a slight aversion to using canned seafood -- but then again, I'm pretty sure that the clam chowder you get in restaurants, ain't made from freshly shucked clams...

Salmon Chowder

This is from Michael Smith's Chef at Home. This dude is almost as much of a ham as Raray. The concept of the show is probably one of the more contrived ones I know of. His secret is "Cooking, without a recipe" -- ie., he pretends to have no idea what to cook, but somehow manages to pull out a perfectly matched starter, main course and dessert just from "random" things he finds in his fridge an...

Murgh Korma

Chicken Korma is a mildly flavored, and slightly sweet dish. It uses a "traditional" group of ingredients such as garlic, ginger, cumin, coriander and cardamom, while getting a delicate sweetness from cinnamon and cloves. It obviously uses a tomato-based sauce, and often makes use of ground cashews, but as in this case -- not always. Some recipes calls for yogurt while others use cream -- but ...

Potato Soup With Carrots And Leeks

In this case, the soup is used as a starter. It was made earlier, and frozen. Soups are great for a cold day -- and easy to make. And very quick to, if you've got a blender; stick or stand. There's nothing like sitting down with a chunk of fresh bread and bowl of hot soup when it's cold outside...

Split Pea Soup

Made with yellow and green split peas (actually, I think the yellow ones might have been some chana dal). A soup & salad can make a great, fairly light meal. Plus, you can freeze the leftovers and serve it as a starter another day. Which I did here, a week later.