Cooking With The Whineaux » 2009 » October
Oct 29

Chilaquiles is a Mexican comfort food dish, occasionally even a hangover cure, and sometimes a way to use up leftovers.  I LOVE IT!  I intentionally chose an soft focus photo because casseroles are inherently out of focus — which is part of their attraction. I posted a recipe for chilaquiles back in April.  For that [...]

Oct 27

I have  a love-hate relationship with Thanksgiving.  I love to cook, I love to entertain and I love to eat.  Every year I look forward to Thanksgiving with high anticipation and every year by 4:00 on Thanksgiving day I’m in bed cuddled up with a bottle of wine and a bad attitude saying “I will [...]

Oct 26

I briefly considered demanding to be called “Legendary Chef Whineaux”  but that doesn’t roll off the tongue very well, so I can live with “Chef Whineaux.”  However I prefer you refrain from using tones of mockery when you address me. This weekend I completed an insurmountable task.  I achieved a perfect score on all 35 [...]

Oct 24

Last night we decided to go to the Portabello Yacht Club in Downtown Disney for dinner. Here’s the abridged review — save your money.  We had a great appetizer (Arancini, but to dumb it down for the tourist crowd it was called mozzarella rice balls) I had a nice bowl of house made Italian Wedding [...]

Oct 19

Inspired by “Just Making Noise”; I decided to enter Foodie Fights.  I knew what I was getting into because for her challenge (which she won!) she had to pair coconut and black beans (Bizarre Love Triangle Brownies – Click for Recipe) talk about requiring creativity! I signed up and was picked! I received the email [...]

Oct 14

Sigh.  I knew better when I bought it.  But it seemed like such a fun Halloween purchase.  I love holidays, I love kitsch and I love wine.  I was on a high.  I thought it would be a fun wine to take to friends’ houses when we go over for dinner.  Including shipping I paid [...]

Oct 13
Dinner Conversation!
posted by: dawn in Uncategorized on 10 13th, 2009 | | 5 Comments »

Sometimes dinner isn’t about the recipe, it’s about the conversation.  I like to “travel” through food.  In fact in the era of super chains; regional comfort food is one of the few defining experiences of travel. Recently I was lucky enough to go to Netherlands.  Early in my visit I was sitting in the town [...]

Oct 12

First and foremost before anyone thinks I have developed mad food photography skills, this picture is lifted — or borrowed from Williams Sonoma.  I feel fine about this because it links back to their Steak au Poivre Sauce. Williams Sonoma has been offering free cooking classes every Sunday.  I went to a couple of them [...]

Oct 5

This dinner started with chicken that I had to cook because it had been hanging out in the fridge for a couple days.  I had some spinach I wanted to use and I had bought Fava Beans which I’ve never cooked before.  I poked around looking for an exciting Chicken recipe (and yes! There is [...]