"because life is too short to eat crappy food"…Yes!Chef!
Well, we are still in Lake Tahoe and yesterday the weather started to improve. It was still petty cool, but the sun was out more than it was behind the clouds. Our morning walk around the neighborhood was brisk but beautiful.
Continue reading “Roasted Chile-Lime Chicken or He Limes Me, He Limes Me Not”
Yesterday somebody mentioned fish tacos somewhere. Or maybe I read about them on-line. Or perhaps I dreamed about them. Anyway, I had a terrible craving for fish tacos and I was able to talk Yes!Chef! into making them for me. I also just happened to find a recipe for shrimp tacos in the latest “Fine Cooking” mag. So, really, it was kismet that we should make them.
Continue reading “Shrimp Tacos or Can We Pretend it’s Almost Summer?”
So, here is the finished product…Julia Child’s Coq Au Vin – Chicken with Wine and pearl onions and tomatoes and mushrooms and wonderful wine. Yes!Chef! also made roasted potatoes and simple buttery broccoli. We love chicken around the Schmautzhaus and we also love slow food, so this was the perfect food for Yes!Chef to cook. He started making it in the morning, before the chickens were up .
Continue reading “Julia’s Coq au Vin or Peasant Food is Happy Food”
We spent last weekend at one of my favorite places in the world (not that I have traveled the world over, but even if I had, I think this would still be my favorite place because this is where I grew up)…Lake Tahoe. It was kind of spur of the moment, but the weather had been so nice and it was supposed to remain nice, so I talked Yes!Chef! into going there for a couple of days. We are most lucky to live about one hour from Lake Tahoe and, even luckier, we are blessed to have a cabin up there that my family has owned for a very long time.
Continue reading “Skirt Steak and Artichokes or Let’s go to Tahoe for the weekend”
My husband found a recipe for making Corned Beef in the April 2012 issue of Cuisine at Home. He thought it would be a great idea to try and make some. We both love Corned Beef but we had never had homemade Corned Beef. He thought this would be a great dish to try.
Continue reading “Corned Beef Hash or What does Hitchcock have to do with Corned Beef?”
UPDATE 05/09/12: More pictures added from the photo shoot I did at this wonderful bistro located in Cameron Park, CA.
Chef John welcomed my husband and I into his bistro with a friendly smile and big hug. Yes!Chef! (Corby) interned with Chef John for over a year learning much from the Cordon Bleu (France) graduate. Chef John’s use of fresh ingredients and elegant cooking style is something you just don’t get in many restaurants. The food tastes as good as it looks.
I will be going back as a customer and to photograph his lunch and breakfast foods. A very yummy assignment!
We Call Him Yes!Chef! 