I enjoy cooking for friends and often have grandiose ideas of menus for fancy dinner parties. But in the end I like cooking dishes that are delicious but simple. These chocolate pots, served with lemon polenta biscuits, are a perfect, elegant, and easy way to end a...
Updated July 31, 2022 To accompany the Sticky Toffee Pudding at our latest Feast, I made a Black Pepper Ice Cream. The puddings is traditionally served with vanilla ice cream. I wanted to make something a bit more "chefy" and turned to David Lebovitz's book The...
Updated July 31, 2022 This morning I'm still relishing the memories of yesterday's Moveable Feast. The theme was one close to my heart (and stomach), British Gastropubs. As soon as I saw the theme I knew I wanted to claim dessert. Sticky Toffee Pudding ranks as one of...
A couple of weeks ago we had our first Moveable Feast of 2014. It started with a delivery from Amazon of a book most of the group members hadn't ordered but with instructions from our hosts that the recipes for the next Feast would come from the enclosed. The cookbook...
Moveable Feast: Singaporean Street Food Crazy as it may seem, barely a week after Thanksgiving our feasting group came together to enjoy the foods of Singapore. I was the host this time and was inspired by one of my very good friends who invited me to join her when...
Moveable Feast: Elevated Casseroles The theme for our last Moveable Feast was elevated casseroles - perfect for a cool fall day where all you crave is comfort food. After doing a little research I found a recipe by Daniel Boulud for Beef Bourguignon Shepherd's...
Making Bobó de Camarão - Shrimp Bobo For Moveable Feast last weekend, in addition to the quindim, I made a second dish - Bobó de Camarão or Shrimp Bobo - a delicious stew with vegetables, shrimp, and coconut milk, thickened with manioc (also known as yucca...
Moveable Feast: Brazil Last weekend we celebrated the foods of Brazil at the Summer 2013 edition of Moveable Feast. This cuisine is unfamiliar to me but as I researched I came across a recipe for Quindim (pronounced keen-deem) or Brazilian Coconut Flan. I was...
Moveable Feast: New Orleans Another Moveable Feast has come and gone leaving only good memories and food comas. The theme of this feast was the foods of New Orleans. We started with Sazaracs, raw oysters, and Oysters Rockefeller. We then moved on to the...
Updated September 2021 One of my favorite desserts when I'm home is made from Okinawan sweet potatoes, macadamia nuts, and coconut milk. With the exception of the sweet potatoes, all the ingredients are pretty easy to get on the mainland but it's something I really...
A few weeks ago we had our autumn edition of Moveable Feast, appropriately themed for the wine harvest - les vendages. Dishes ranged from those traditionally served during the harvest to recipes made with wine. One thing about this group, in spite of our claims...
In the mythic lore of the Moveable Feast there is one story that is passed down from feaster to feaster - The Mystery of the Garlic Soup. Legend has it that in one of the earliest Feasts, possibly the very first, there was one dish that was so awful, so inedible,...