"because life is too short to eat crappy food"…Yes!Chef!
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”
I am starting to fall a little behind with Yes!Chef!’s food blogging. He’s pumping out great food faster than I can take pictures, edit them, taste the food and blog. Then, there’s this whole world around me that is begging to be photographed, to say nothing of my photography business. So many beautiful people, so little time. I’ve been as busy as our Lavender Bees. All this to say that I have some heavy duty catching up to do, hopefully in the next few days.
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!
The other day Yes! Chef! and I were watching some taped shows of Julia Child and Jacques Pepin. One show was all about potatoes and the other was about duck. At any rate, it inspired Yes! Chef! to dig out one of Julia Childs cookbooks that my mom gave me in 1989 called, The Way to Cook. (You may wonder how I know my mom gave it to me in 1989. It’s because I’m rather OCD and I always mark the year and the giver in a book when I receive one. A little quirk that Yes! Chef! has had to learn to live with…my OCD, not the book marking.) So, tonight he made a couple of hamburgers from some burger he had ground up from a brisket (very meaty.) Then, he used Julia’s technique for Deglazing Sauce with Red Wine. He added shallots to the sauce which added a nice texture and flavor.
We Call Him Yes!Chef! 