especially in the brisker weather i enjoy making cuisine on saturday nights. last week i had dinner for dave and carlos and i made grand mariner prawns.
this is a famous dish.
my big sister always has this when my family went to shun lee dynasty around christmas every year. everyone else ordered something different, but coveted her choice. so delicious, sweet and savory, fried and mayonnaise, rich, rich, rich!
lately i have been very interested in dishes that have fallen out of fashion, like this. really bold, fatty dinners, classics i guess, but i even find myself drawn to sappy colors. tv dinners. meat. etc.
what i really love about saturday, and what i love about classic dishes, olympia dukakis captures in a solo scene in moonstruck. i can't find a clip online. but it takes place at the grand ticino:
dukakis comes alone on a saturday night, and the waiter greets her by name, passes her a menu. she shrugs it off saying, not tonight, bobo, it's just me. i wanna eat.
no family, no fuss, just dinner, albeit a nice coursed out dinner for one.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/33535#i0,p4,d1
"i wanna eat."
martini. olives. lettuce. steak. potato.
perhaps this is because in the hurricane i read the entirety of COMPLETE TECHNIQUES by Jacques Pepin, to whom i dedicate this blog.
i love how he considers carving roses out of tomatoes alongside chopping onions as imperative basics. many of his techniques have fallen out of fashion, but i find them charming.
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2011/10/18/dining/100000001119564/jacques-pepin-how-to-chop-garlic.html?ref=dining
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