%). They do have a bulk section so if I just need a small amount of some specialty flour or grain for baking, that’s what I usually buy there. Occasionally something like Copper River Salmon if it’s hard to find...

A local grocery store had wild-caught Copper River salmon on sale for $9.99/lb so last night’s dinner was another recipe from Sortun’s “Spice” cookbook - Seared Salmon with Egyptian Garlic and Coriander...

, flageolet beans & sautéed bitter greens $36 Cedar Smoked Copper River Salmon roasted potatoes, spring onion & mint with Greek yoghurt $30 Rosemary Charred Baby Lamb tian of eggplant, squash, tomato & goat cheese with ceci $32 Grilled...

by a security guard who was obviously happy to be doing anything. It was quite nice nonetheless to board lightning-fast past the usual suspects on my way to the Spike which was surprisingly packed. GAMBLING ALERT: here I blew a...

. It is a log (probably originally foot-long) of yeast-leavened dough cut into 10 segments and then deep-fried. Each fried segment is the size of a little inch-high marshmallow (flattened on one side) with a gorgeous...

to melt on the tongue. Strong passionfruit flavour with a hint of spice. We had been quietly observing the creative process in the kitchen, but were now determined to learn some secrets with which to amaze and astound our friends....

fours, and the like in a little wicker basket decorated with a fabric bee on a copper wire, there were two of each sweet: fresh cherries, espresso chocolates, candied grapefruit wedges, shortbread cookies, dried apricots,...

alcohol stove and/or an Aladin kerosene space heater until we could get a proper stove Oh, and a “Black Angus” electric rotisserie. Oooops! Nearly forgot about the elaborate copper and anodized aluminum fancy schmancy...

Poached copper river salmon with fresh local morrels, new potatoes and steamed asparagusi

LOL! That one got me good. Aren’t all oans drool worthy? Copper...hmmmm.

By the way, I’m calling them Toffee Grahams. I think that’s a much better name! I also made some Peppermint Almond Bark. Just white A.Bark and some crushed peppermint. I moulded them in copper cookie cutters sitting on...

. Others may find that notation odd, but once upon a time, Arizona was a huge cattle and citrus focal point. In many ways it still is, but we don’t really celebrate the heritage that much. Arizona economy was always...

M- Interesting, I think I know which house your referring to (the one with huge kitchen and about a 100 copper pots on the ground floor??), but didn’t know she was a cookbook author. Could you post the Author’s name...

RGR – Your meal sounds great. My wife and I tried to go two weeks ago but they were booked. This weekend we are trying Copper Canyon, but after that we will definitely try Le Fandy.

with a huge copper pot of cauliflower puree. Yummy. Dessert was mind boggling. I was very surprised at the size of the chocolate explosion cake (which really was a big fat yummy brownie). It was served with cherries that were so...