Month: July 2020
HEAPS OF TUNA!
When my friend Lisa Heaps texted on Sunday night that her daughter’s boyfriend had dropped off a “shit ton of Tuna – blue fin . . . do you want to stop over after golf and get some?”, I naturally said “YES”! When I arrived at the house after our weekly Monday golf game I …
THAI PEANUT NOODLES
This is one a lot of people have been waiting for. When we lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina we craved the bold flavors in Thai food that was readily available to us in London and Chicago. As I mentioned in my post “A Taste for Thai Food”, Argentines have a surprisingly bland palate and the …
LOBSTAH!!
Is there a more quintessential Cape summer meal than a lobster? The traditional “clam bake” is so named because it usually includes steamed clams (“steamers”, or “steamahs” in the local vernacular) along with the steamed lobster, corn on the cob and potatoes. The whole shebang is often cooked in the same pot, or if you …
“MOORING” CLAM SOUP
As I said in my first post “The Experiment Begins”, I spent summers on the Cape during college and graduate school and worked at a restaurant called The Mooring. Those were fun times and I met some great friends, many of whom I am still in touch with to this day. It was during these …
TAKING IT TO THE CAPE!
While I may have been quiet here for a couple of weeks, it doesn’t mean the kitchen has been closed. It finally stopped raining after the wettest month in Chicago’s history, so I allowed myself to indulge in my other passion (er, obsession?), golf, a few days a week. It felt almost normal, playing golf …