Friday, February 10, 2012

Cooking Up A Zakushka Storm

As promised in spite of prodigious cooking taking place all day, I did my best to fulfill my blogging photo journalistic obligations. There's no particular pattern with these, just a kind of photo stream of consciousness.

The first dish of the day - Trout in Orange Marinade

Chopping onions for the Liver Pate

Chicken Wings and meat for Meatballs

The Chicken Wings in Garlic Sauce cooking

The meatballs have been flavored with bread crumbs soaked in wine and garlic.

Wife (ecstatic as always at being photographed for the blog) polishing silver.

Wife was also busy making a Central Asian bread, Non


The Meatballs in Chorizo Sauce
A very neat recipe where the sauce consists of chorizo, ham, roasted pepper, tomato, garlic, coriander, cumin, pimenton, and red pepper sauteed together and then blended with water and returned to the pan.

One Step-by-Step Dish
Mushroom Ragout

Shitakes

Portabellos

Hens in the Wood

Tomatoes, red onion, scallions, garlic, wine, stock, and tomato paste added

Then cooked down to a think stew.

7 comments:

Pulisha said...

Looks fantastic, Dad! We'll have to put you to work when you get out here ;)

Lakeview Coffee Joe said...

Good Lord man, that's a lot of cooking going on. Polishing silver in the kitchen?? Is that recommended?

Jules said...

It all looks great! How on earth did you begin your cooking experience to end up like this? Is there a previous blog that details the cooking beginnings of de-I?

Bernice said...

All I can say is "Yum"

alexis said...

mmmm, think stew.

terri said...

Wife has a beautiful smile. I suspect she'd be more enthusiastic about having her photo taken if you gave her a little warning first! :-)

You certainly are ambitious. I can't even begin to imagine taking on an event of these proportions!

Mike said...

I'm worn out just looking at all of that delicious stuff.