Indian food

Poached orange roughy in cilantro cream sauce with mint and nut pilaf

Braised okra

Risotto with wild mushrooms and gorgonzola

Spaghettini with tomatoes and bacalao

I had some incredibly tasty heirloom tomatoes that were getting old and a pot of soaking bacalao (salt cod) that I didn't know what to do with, so I made this.  Really good.  Just pasta, tomatoes, olive oil and salt is enough to make a winning meal if the quality of the ingredients is good.

Pasta in sage cream sauce with sauteed morels

Heirloom tomatoes with marinated buffalo mozzarella

Chicken, peas, and mashed potatoes

Mom is great.  She sent me some fresh shelled conch peas, my favorite kind of peas.  So far as I know, they're only found in Florida.  I cooked them in duck fat and some turkey ham from Whole Foods.  Delicious, but not as good as back home.

 












I had this with some Argentian white wine from a varietal called torrontes.  I've been blown away by my last two bottles of torrontes.  This bottle was Camino del Inca 2010.

Sichuan food

I made this a while ago.

Mung beans in coconut curry