Foodista Blog » meals http://www.foodista.com/blog Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:36:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Latkes and Goose http://www.foodista.com/blog/2007/12/26/latkes-and-goose/ http://www.foodista.com/blog/2007/12/26/latkes-and-goose/#comments Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:26:34 +0000 Barnaby Dorfman http://blog.foodista.com/2007/12/26/latkes-and-goose/ ‘Tis the day after Christmas and I’ve been eating constantly! We’ve been spreading ourselves around among family and friends with a number of interesting culinary events. On Christmas Eve Eve (aka last Sunday), we had a cocktail party with Potato Pancakes (Latkes), a variety of smoked fish, caviar and some really nice champagne. Being only half-Jewish, potato pancakes are only a cultural & culinary tradition for me. In fact, it’s more tied to Christmas than Hanukkah because I learned to make them from my Jewish grandfather who celebrated Christmas. For a nice post and recipe for Latkes, visit The Blog that Ate Manhattan.

On the actual Eve of Christmas, we prepared a goose, which is pretty rare among American households nowadays, but a food I love. We ordered it in advance from Draeger’s in San Mateo, but they called the morning it was supposed to arrive and informed us that “it wasn’t on the truck,” with a suggestion that we have “Christmas Duck”…Sheri said “what the Dickens!!” and I set about finding a goose elsewhere. We got lucky and Whole Foods had a beautiful one from the Amish country. Had I been even more organized, I would have ordered from Amazon.com in advance.

Facsimile of Barnaby's Goose

I meant to take pictures, write down my recipes and be a good blogger, but wound up too engrossed in the actual cooking, drinking and stuffing of face to do any of that. Luckily, Wendy Cooper, of the Cooking Blog, did a great post on Christmas Goose.

Recipes indexed at Foodista.com:

Goose

Latkes

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I’ve had a difficult time finding a really good, comprehensive ceviche cookbook while there are thousands upon thousands of sushi cookbooks. Why have we not embraced this delicious South American dish con mucho gusto!? For inspiration and entertainment check out Chef Melissa’s blog on ceviche, the wrath she endured over her stated provenance of this dish and a great clip of Anthony Bourdain’s show No Reservations. If you’re not familiar with this show and love food and travel (and New York humor) then put this show on your TiVo list.

For even further inspiration check out the beautiful variations of ceviche on Flickr.

Cheers and good eats!

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