We all know that my mother, aka MamaT, loves Beef Wellington. Apparently, so does my friend and neighbor, Paul Ellington. One night in April, I was persuaded to prepare another Wellington. I should call it Paul Wellington, or Beef Ellington, or Beef Paul 😂. ️ Now, Paul is a fine cook in his own right….
Tag: Mom
Classic Pot Roast 🥘
My cousin Stuart generously brought some beef over the weekend as we settled in for some Saturday college football. One of the packages was a chuck roast, something I hadn’t cooked in years, so on Monday night, with my Mom over, I decided to make a good old-fashioned pot roast. It was a cold night,…
Sushi Kashiba 🍣
Sushi Kashiba, located in the Pike Place Market, in the former Campagne Restaurant location, is the best and most storied sushi restaurant in Seattle, period. There are some other great spots, but Shiro Kashibi studied under Jiro in Japan, and that lineage spans over 100 years. I have been fortunate to dine with Shiro-san many…
Chicken Marbella 🐔
Chicken Marbella is a dish introduced to me by my childhood friend Lisa, who made this for me on several occasions. This was popularized in the Silver Plate Cookbook released in 1982, so it should contain many dishes from my childhood; alas, my mother was not the most inventive cook. In her defense, she was…
Pork Chop Suprise 🐖
The making of old school goodness. When I was a latchkey kid in the 1980s, my Mom would prep my meals before heading to work. Early on, she would pre-make this dish, which I called Pork Chop Surprise. It was better than Shake & Bake pork chops. As I got older, I prepared the dish…
Scott’s Breakfast Strata 🍞
An homage to my friend and neighbor of the Cobb, Scott Cussimano, who sadly passed away last year, the Breakfast Strata was a dish he prepared many times. Scott was of Italian descent and cooked many dishes reflecting his heritage. Shockingly, this was a new dish to me, and come fall football season, it has…