Showing posts with label beef. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beef. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Baking and raw meat

We're a bit behind in the posting game here, but I really wanted to post these three things before the next round of great stuff still to hit TGL. First, for Andri's farewell dinner, Laura cooked a meat-theme meal, the starter of which was this carpaccio. Elia and me (and I think the rest) agreed that it was almost perfect (except perhaps for a millilitre of too much lemon juice). We had it with the focaccia here as well.



Later that week, I rediscovered baking in tins, which is actually a great thing, although for many years I didn't do it. At this point, I still had some fresh yeast and I used a left-over of yogurt, which I always find makes the bread really nice. Andri taught me a trick of how to fold up the dough in a way so that when it gets baked in the tin it becomes really evenly shaped and gets this line at the top which one knows from the bakery shops. Great stuff, indeed.


Monday, October 15, 2007

The Japanese Meal

Our little meal turned out really good. I made Agedashi tofu for starter, and Andreas did a teriyaki beef as main, and we had rice done in the new rice cooker. Elia, one of our habitues, brought japanese beer. He always take our invitations for dinner seriously.



I wont comment on the tofu, because I prefer other's opinions on what I cook. Andreas' beef was really good, tender in spite of the tendency beef has to get sort of boiled in our western-very weak heat type of cookers.




I missed dessert though...