Hope you've had a great first week of 2011 ( Read more... )

Easiest thing to make when you're too tired to make anything on a weeknight:

Mix chopped lox (or smoked salmon), chopped walnuts, cream cheese, lemon juice, lemon zest, and salt in a bowl, and serve in endive leaves. Sit back and relax with a cool glass of chardonnay or freshly made ice tea.


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Griddled asparagus, Loch Fyne smoked salmon, poached hen's egg, mustard yoghurt sauce. Ideally, this should have been a Hollandaise but I was late home already and really hungry so didn't want to spend the extra time so just mixed some yoghurt, dijon mustard, mixed herbs and seasoning.


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I'll be traveling out of town this to spend Thanksgiving with my sweetie, just the two of us. That's a change from the big, sprawling communal feasts I'm used to organizing or contributing to, and the first time in several years he'll have had Thanksgiving at home. It's taken us some effort to get the menu down to something that feals like ( Read more... )

After some disccusion with you folks with what I should do with my Ice Wine glazed Wild Smoked Salmon, I decided to go ahead with the sushi idea.

( Here is the result! )

Yesterday, I came across some smoked salmon.
Not just any smoked salmon (which has to be one of the most amazing things to begin with), but ice wine glazed wild smoked salmon ( Read more... )

So I was lazy Saturday. After a week of long commutes too and from the client site I was ready to sleep in on Saturday morning. Which meant I missed my farmer's market ( Read more... )