By Susan Hathaway
For the Mercury News
Posted: 06/04/2013 03:00:00 PM PDT
Updated: 06/04/2013 03:26:07 PM PDT

Chef David Kinch photographed at his restaurant, Manresa, in Los Gatos, Calif., on Saturday, May 25, 2013. (Dan Honda/Bay Area News Group)

tasty new food venture that, he says with droll delight, “has turned out to be quite the roaring success.”

Backstabbing and profanity may be the route to becoming a television top chef, but David Kinch did it the slow, old-fashioned way, honing his craft over a few decades into the culinary equivalent of a 10th-degree black belt.

In recent years, Kinch and his renowned Los Gatos restaurant, Manresa, have perched at or near the top of all the “best” lists — garnering two Michelin stars for six straight years and multiple James Beard awards — and he has become something of a mild-mannered cooking deity.

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So, apparently, at least in the world of avante-garde cuisine, “spherification” is a word, and it means exactly what it sounds like. If you’re a fan of Top Chef, or even just Iron Chef America, you’ve probably seen someone pull out a steaming tank of liquid nitrogen and instantly up the hipness level of their otherwise run-of-the-mill appetizer. These molecular gastronomy kits from Spanish chef-brothers, Albert and Ferran Adrià, seek to put that power in your kitchen.

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Turkey – 28 May 13

Thinking of Turkish food, the first images that come to mind are probably meze, the thousand different small plates for sharing, or the great variety of börek (pastries made with yufka, phyllo dough) or the omnipresent kebabs. Rarely do we think of cheese, and at most we might think only of something white and brined, similar to feta.

But we would be doing a great disservice to Turkish gastronomy. 

Turkey actually draws on many cheesemaking traditions—Middle Eastern, Asian, Persian, European—which are rendered unique by the country’s many native livestock breeds, and the fact that a third of the plant species are endemic.

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artisjok-gebakken

Artisjokken waren al in de tijd van het Oude Egypte bekend als voedings- en dieetplant. Artisjok is een groene groente en zorgt ervoor dat het cholesterolgehalte vermindert. Ook heeft het een reinigende werking van het bloed. Dit komt doordat de stoffen van de artisjok werken bij de zwelling van de lever en bij geelzucht, verder heeft het een positief effect op het ontgiften van de lever en het kan zelfs de kans op galstenen verminderen. Continue reading


watercress_16x9Watercress leaves have a mustardy bite that makes them natural bedfellows to
strongly flavoured meats such as game. The leaves are most commonly served raw
as a garnish to eggs or meat, or as part of a salad with orange segments.
Watercress also makes a pleasingly peppery soup that is as good hot as it is
chilled.


fcb50c1d8e3a6b946be7fe977ea92784De plant kan tot drie meter hoog worden en kent een groeicyclus van 120 tot 160 dagen. De houtige stengel is al dan niet vertakt en kan afhankelijk van het ras groen, rood of purper van kleur zijn. Quinoa is een allotetraploid met het aantal chromosomen van 2n=36.[1]

Quinoa bloeit in pluimen. De groene bloemen hebben een weinig opvallend bloemdek, bestaande uit vijf gekielde bloemdekbladen en zijn gewoonlijk tweeslachtig. De bloemen bestuiven zichzelf. Het vruchtbeginsel is bovenstandig.[2][3]

De ongeveer 2 mm grote vrucht heeft een vliezige vruchtwand en is een eenzadig nootje, dat afhankelijk van het ras een witte, rode of zwarte kleur kan hebben.

Zie tal van leuke gerechten op volgende pinterest pagina: http://pinterest.com/source/cookingquinoa.net/

 




That’s the lofty list released today by food website The Daily Meal.

Sometimes it seems like we already have far too many “best restaurant” lists, and in this column I’ve previously looked at the pros, cons and glaring omissions of a similar Top 100 US Restaurants list.

But what makes this one different is how far it goes beyond the usual big city suspects. Sure the top ten restaurants, the crème de la crème, include entries in Paris and London, but they also include Wolfsburg Germany, Kruishoutem, Belgium and Ljubljana, Slovenia. Other countries covered that didn’t crack the top ten but are notable for their omission from most other foodie lists include the likes of Malta, Latvia, Estonia and Croatia.

 

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