tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1646154192356270112024-03-13T11:17:17.070-07:00The Hefe Kitchen BlogtheElHefehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01764313520165986341noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164615419235627011.post-79146597056218728192017-09-18T15:37:00.000-07:002017-09-18T15:37:01.386-07:00Avocado toast
I've been wondering what I might blog about lately, and then suddenly it came to me...
avocado toast!
With radish, lime, and hot pepper flakes.
Avocado toast has become one of favorite breakfasts. Funny as I really didn't like avocados unless they were smashed into a guacamole. But I discovered how good it can be just last year. Since then I have posted over 20 separate ones to my theElHefehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01764313520165986341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164615419235627011.post-46231136590964910712017-01-24T11:19:00.000-07:002017-01-25T08:02:47.621-07:00Some Soup For You
It's been wintry here in the Valley of the Sun, like 55° (bone chilling I know) so I made soup tonight. I have had this kuri squash on my counter for over a month so it was time to use it.
Kuri squash is a hard winter squash similar to a pumpkin. Use care when cutting it for use. I cut it into fourths and didn't cut myself. Then I grabbed a spoon and scraped out the seeds and theElHefehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01764313520165986341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164615419235627011.post-28031350044845866572016-07-13T16:07:00.000-07:002016-07-14T06:22:15.179-07:00Catching Up- AgainI was caught thinking about my long forgotten blog the other day, and found that it has now been a year since I last wrote.
Where to start as this has been the worst year of my life...
If you don't know, my wife passed away at the end of January from her battle with cancer.
Her last year was filled with doctors, nurses and hospitals, chemo, stem cell treatments and radiation. Every step was theElHefehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01764313520165986341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164615419235627011.post-28529093750704321702015-07-14T07:50:00.001-07:002015-07-19T16:09:09.049-07:00Catching up and cooking with a tagineA little catching up with things in my world: sometimes life gets in the way and you forget about your inactive blog. My last entry hit on December 1st last year. On that day my wife had us go to the emergency room because of pain she had been feeling. A CT scan revealed a mass in her abdomen. A few days later we were told it was a type of lymphoma and that chemo treatments were to begin quickly.theElHefehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01764313520165986341noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164615419235627011.post-84417947846551571202014-12-01T16:46:00.001-07:002014-12-01T17:45:37.094-07:00Roast Turkey 2014This is a chronical of the events related to the Roast Turkey of 2014. It ended up looking like this for ThanksgivingI have to write down the basic steps because it turned out so well.It started with a 17.3 pound fresh turkey. Brined for 24+ hours. 1 lemon, 1 meyer lemon, 1 onion, 1 cup kosher salt, 1 cup brown sugar, 3 rosemary sprigs and 3 bay leaves, an ancho chile, 3 allspice and 20 black theElHefehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01764313520165986341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164615419235627011.post-38574920602606462232014-10-22T11:18:00.001-07:002014-10-22T11:18:37.549-07:00A little cabbage side dishI found myself needing to make a little side dish the other night, so I naturally looked in the fridge for some veggies. I dug around a bit and found this Savoy cabbage that I had bought several days earlier.
Ok, now what to do with this? I didn't want to make slaw or an Asian salad. Hmmm. I wanted to cook with this thing, so I started cutting it up to do a stir fry type dish.
And theElHefehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01764313520165986341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164615419235627011.post-59921678749179108232014-09-04T11:39:00.000-07:002014-09-04T11:39:21.913-07:00Dipping Sauces...
It seems I'm always looking for stuff that I 'need' for our kitchen. Spices, oils, bbq sauces, mustards. I probably shouldn't because we have so many things in our pantry but I can't help it.
One thing I always seem to see for sale are dipping sauces for bread.
Note: I wrote this on a long flight, thus the lack of original pictures...
A search of Amazon resulted in over 100 choices. theElHefehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01764313520165986341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164615419235627011.post-91184328854633792182014-07-16T10:41:00.001-07:002014-07-16T10:45:26.038-07:00Grill Improvising
I can't believe that I did it again! I ran out of propane.
And as usual, it happens when the food isn't done yet.
&theElHefehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01764313520165986341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164615419235627011.post-77692279171411867082014-04-12T07:31:00.001-07:002014-04-12T07:31:55.087-07:00A restaurant review...I don't normally do reviews, but I want to review my dinner the other night. This is about The Greene House, a Sam Fox restaurant concept located in Kierland Commons in Scottsdale. I met the mrs here during the past week for a quick dinner before a lacrosse game. If you live anywhere in the Valley, you know of Sam Fox. His restaurants are everywhere and usually are above average in the theElHefehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01764313520165986341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164615419235627011.post-45615931863991840432014-04-08T08:19:00.001-07:002014-04-08T08:19:32.699-07:00The Secret Behind the PicThis is a little behind the scenes information about a recent dinner pic that I posted on Instagram.
2 weeks back I made dinner on a Sunday. Grilled salmon and Fava Beans salad with Fennel and Radish. It got the most likes that I have ever received for a food pic, but there is a little secret behind this photo.
The right side of the salmon is cut from a larger fillet and not theElHefehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01764313520165986341noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164615419235627011.post-479701672237689152014-02-15T11:26:00.002-07:002014-02-15T11:37:47.056-07:00Saturday at the MarketThis is a little glimpse of my farmers market trip this morning. This is as close to a live blogging that I have ever attempted. Enjoy!
Fresh sugar snap peas
Fresh multi colored carrots
Peacock kale
I also noticed this suggestive sign
Flowers are showing up in this warm weather
and lots of doggies.
I ended up at home theElHefehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01764313520165986341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164615419235627011.post-9069814179450064312014-02-11T11:46:00.000-07:002014-02-11T11:46:16.021-07:00The Clean UpOk so I have obviously forgotten about my blog. What happened? I don't know except life I guess.
So I am going straight to the worst part of the kitchen, the clean up.
I hate it, you hate it, we all hate it. I even made a big deal about closing my kitchen on Instagram once because I was getting sick about it.
Maybe I thought that if you cook, you don't have to clean up. Maybe I theElHefehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01764313520165986341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164615419235627011.post-23845436826954534002013-08-02T09:12:00.000-07:002013-08-02T09:12:16.535-07:00Farmers Market HeavenI went on a road trip last weekend to Santa Barbara. I had to get my son to a lacrosse camp in the area. I really wasn't sure what I was going to do besides eat and sight see.
Now I can't remember when or if I have ever been to the Santa Barbara area before, so I was pretty excited to check it out. It is a beautiful California beach town even if it is a large city and probably overrun by theElHefehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01764313520165986341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164615419235627011.post-86579662153414833632013-07-15T14:52:00.000-07:002013-07-16T10:05:27.675-07:00Heirloom GarlicI'm writing today about some heirloom garlic that I picked up at the Flagstaff farmers market a week ago.
I've never bought this before although I've seen it. This time I decided to pick up 2.
Of course I have lost the piece of paper with the farmers information
on it, so I will just have to say that they are grown in Arizona. I think lots of other shoppers decided to as well because many theElHefehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01764313520165986341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164615419235627011.post-28832005553036102432013-06-28T09:42:00.001-07:002013-06-28T09:42:27.150-07:00Realization...Time for a little realization about my cooking.
If anyone read this post, I wrote about how I had entered the Arizona Republic's Best Home Chef contest. I had hoped to reach the final 3 and then would have hosted a dinner for the Dining & Entertainment people from the newspaper.
After reading the articles about the 3 dinners all I can say is 'What was I thinking'! I've come to theElHefehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01764313520165986341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164615419235627011.post-85628547412510026082013-05-22T16:39:00.000-07:002013-05-22T16:39:18.251-07:00A little chopped salad...
Ok, I'm posting my attempt to recreate a salad I had out at lunch with the mrs.
If anyone went out to eat with me very often, they would notice that I tend to try new things on a menu. Well we were out at a place that serves tacos and such, but I noticed this chopped salad that sounded pretty good. It had cabbage, avocado, radish and jicama in what seemed to me to be a cumin scented theElHefehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01764313520165986341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164615419235627011.post-1546018026191745512013-05-13T11:54:00.001-07:002013-05-22T16:40:22.862-07:00Weekend roundup.A little catchup today about my weekend.
I started my weekend on Friday at lunch. I had to get over to Restaurant FnB because I was hoping that they still had this chips and ramps dip with bacon on the menu. It was and it was so good. Then I had the special 7th item off the menu, this BLT that was filled with many different veggies. This sammie had bacon, juicy tomatoes, cilantro, watermelon theElHefehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01764313520165986341noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164615419235627011.post-89807838955759360902013-04-24T10:10:00.001-07:002013-04-24T13:35:24.337-07:00A little catch upWell it happened. I haven't posted in quite a while and so I'd just like to catch up a bit.
Tax day has come and gone and my signing hand is now recovered.
Spring is in full bloom around here and my little tomato plants are over 3 feet tall now. They also have a lot of small tomatoes on them. Probably they are shading my other plants too much but this was all an experiment anyways. We theElHefehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01764313520165986341noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164615419235627011.post-67609015254847165702013-04-01T13:53:00.000-07:002013-04-24T13:34:33.169-07:00A Change of SeasonsAs a frequent shopper at farmers markets, one can't help but noticing the change in seasons by the veggies that are for sale. On the Saturday before Easter, this was my experience.
Spring is in the air here in the Southwest. Flowers have been blooming and the desert is alive right now. The birds and bunnies are active around my house. My little garden has been growing as well, especially thetheElHefehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01764313520165986341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164615419235627011.post-61541619175827937932013-03-17T17:08:00.000-07:002013-04-24T13:33:53.707-07:00Drinking 'o the GreenGreen smoothies and the #flushot. Any one that follows me on instagram has seen these pics. Whether I post a pic or not, they have become an almost daily ritual for me. So for St. Patrick's Day, I'm going to tell my experience with green smoothies plus show some of the various mixes I have come up with.
I think there are a couple of reasons first of which is my wife bought a VitaMix blender. theElHefehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01764313520165986341noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164615419235627011.post-92002256515536081732013-03-06T08:03:00.000-07:002013-03-07T09:28:05.497-07:001st cookbookI mentioned in my first blog post how I started cooking when I was away at college. I had begun to get tired of eating fast and frozen food way too often. I remember getting a wok as a birthday present and I bought this book to go along with. Well the wok is long gone but the tattered book still remains.
I leafed through it many times thinking of exotic Chinese food and locales. Pickled theElHefehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01764313520165986341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164615419235627011.post-78045584085609105752013-02-26T14:45:00.000-07:002013-02-26T15:02:50.122-07:00Weekly Ramblings...This blogging is certainly new to me. I am trying to keep something new out here for my few readers.
So this will be my rambling blog report from the last few days.
Last Tuesday I received a text from a friend asking if we would like to be in on their reservation at Restaurant FnB. Well I said yes not even caring what my wife said. This small restaurant is probably my favorite right now. They theElHefehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01764313520165986341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164615419235627011.post-85542404747252589652013-02-19T11:29:00.000-07:002013-02-19T11:29:37.628-07:00Farmers market SaturdayHere's a little look into my trip to the farmers market Saturday..
It has become my thing these days.
It started a few years ago just due to the fact that I live too darn close to several great markets. The ability to get farm fresh, local produce is so cool I think everyone should do it. I usually hit the market pretty early on a mission for unusual veggies but that's not the only theElHefehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01764313520165986341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164615419235627011.post-37394791683675915102013-02-12T11:01:00.000-07:002013-02-12T11:01:09.343-07:00The odd area of the produce section...I've written two posts about odd vegetables so one might wonder 'what up with dat'?! What made you want to write about these when there are lots of normal veggies that are perfectly fine and easier to buy. Potatoes, onions, bell peppers and romaine lettuce are normal veggies that most people like. Why not talk about a lighter broccoli rice casserole that has ingredients you can buy at any theElHefehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01764313520165986341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164615419235627011.post-43107508768994488562013-02-08T13:45:00.001-07:002013-02-11T11:28:48.264-07:00Purple haze...Going to the farmers market on Saturday mornings is sometimes tough to do. Friday nights are a time to cut lose and have a good time whether out with friends or just at home. I will have a few adult beverages and then a few more. It's not a secret to my friends that I love a good tequila. This doesn't make for a good time getting up early to go to the market. I usually slam a cup of coffee and theElHefehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01764313520165986341noreply@blogger.com6