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I hardly post anymore. Real life (which is nice spiked with occasional, unnecessary stress -- fairly typical lately), a couple clients who demand a lot of attention, etc. I do swing by here a lot, but LJ isn't the factor in my life that it used to be. Then again, over the almost decade I've had this journal, my participation has been a pendulum anyway.
I went to the grocery store with Meta today, and I was singing in the car along with Shinedown. Normally, I only sing in the car while alone, when cracked notes half an octave off aren't that big of a deal, especially with the range of Shinedown. I don't mind singing in front of a 2 year old, though, but I only sang along to the chorus. When the song transitioned back into the verse again, Meta said: "Daddy, sing! Sing!" Maybe I'm not as bad as I thought. Or, perhaps, my little girl just loves her daddy.
We got a shipment of fresh lychee fruit in from an orchard in South Florida. Really fresh, sweet, juicy stuff! I wanted to do something savory, yet a lot of lychee recipes are understandably Asian, and I wanted to try to mix French techniques with Western ingredients (fused with the Eastern lychee, of course). I made a lychee and New Mexico chile veloute over a pan roasted grouper.
Man, this was good. Sweet, earthy, smokey, delicate... yum yum yum.
More description and our usual step-by-step at FotoCuisine: http://fotocuisine.com/2009/06/17/grouper-with-a-lychee-chile-veloute
I went to the grocery store with Meta today, and I was singing in the car along with Shinedown. Normally, I only sing in the car while alone, when cracked notes half an octave off aren't that big of a deal, especially with the range of Shinedown. I don't mind singing in front of a 2 year old, though, but I only sang along to the chorus. When the song transitioned back into the verse again, Meta said: "Daddy, sing! Sing!" Maybe I'm not as bad as I thought. Or, perhaps, my little girl just loves her daddy.
We got a shipment of fresh lychee fruit in from an orchard in South Florida. Really fresh, sweet, juicy stuff! I wanted to do something savory, yet a lot of lychee recipes are understandably Asian, and I wanted to try to mix French techniques with Western ingredients (fused with the Eastern lychee, of course). I made a lychee and New Mexico chile veloute over a pan roasted grouper.
Man, this was good. Sweet, earthy, smokey, delicate... yum yum yum.
More description and our usual step-by-step at FotoCuisine: http://fotocuisine.com/2009/06/17/grouper-with-a-lychee-chile-veloute
