Lamb Chops With Mint Cream Sauce

19 Monday May 2014

Posted by Bob and Robin in Acme Bake Shop, Boise Artisan Bakery's, Boise Farmers Market, Buy Idaho, Cream Sauces, Dinner At The Captains Shack, Dinner With Robin, Grenache, Heirloom Tomatoes, Herbs, Idaho Lamb, Lamb, Local Farmers Markets, Local Harvests, Local Markets, Photos By: Bob Young, Recipes, Ste Chapelle Winery, Vegetables, What's For Dinner?, Wine and Food

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Super lamb dinner and all the fixins’! The mint cream sauce is easy to do: After brazing the lamb chops, deglaze the pan with 1/4 cup of Cream de Menthe. Add 1/2 cup of cream and stir to blend. Reduce over medium heat until thickened. Taste and season as necessary. Place 1 Tablespoon, or so, on each chop and serve.

Whipped Parsnip and Carrot

Braised Felzien Farms Lamb Chop
with
mint cream sauce

Acme Bake Shop Ciabatta

Farm Fresh Mixed Greens and Tomato Salad

Cauliflower with Brown Butter and Sage

2011 Ste Chapelle Winery Grenache

Herbs and Wine at The Buzz

14 Wednesday May 2014

Posted by Bob and Robin in Appetizers, Dinner With Friends, Food Photos, Herbs, Herbs and Spices, Housemade Soup, Photos By: Bob Young, Salads, Special Dinners, Spices, Sriracha Chili Sauce, What's For Dinner?, Wine and Food, Wine Dinners

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Buzz Coffee & Wine Events, Wine, Wine Dinners

I would be remiss if I did not send our condolences to Tommy and his family for his loss over the weekend.

We had a very quiet and intimate wine tasting at the Buzz last night – Herbs and Wine was the topic. Great topic and job, Cristi! Your choices of topics is what makes these Wine Dinners so very interesting. If you live in Boise, or the surrounding area and you missed this event, you can redeem yourself tonight as the program is repeated. The program starts at 6:30pm and costs $20.00 per person for a 5 Course dinner and at least 6 wines. Here is what we had and the wines to go with dinner. Cheers!

Herbed Quiche
2012 Wente Chardonnay
13.5% alc.a wonderful chardonnay with this quiche. [19]

Herbed Zucchini Soup 2012 Monte Fresco 13% alc. good choice with the spice in the soup. great soup

Herbed Zucchini Soup
2012 Monte Fresco
13% alc. good choice with the spice in the soup. Awesome soup! [17]

Spiced Grape Salad
2012 Zolo Bonardo
13.8% alc. great paring with the salad. big enough to go with the radish [19]

Herbed Chicken
Broccoli
Saffron Tomato Rice
2012 Fernandez Gomez Rioja
14% alc. superb match. went very well with the broccoli. [19]

Lavender Cupcake with Honey Frosting
2012 Tranche
13.2% alc. I thought the balance was a little off on this one. The cupcake, however, was awesome! [17]

Awesome Idaho Breakfast

13 Tuesday May 2014

Posted by Bob and Robin in Acme Bake Shop, Acme Bake Shop Breads, Acme Bake Shop Rye, Big Lost River Meats, Boise Farmers Market, Bread, Breakfast, Breakfast At The Captains Shack, Breakfast With Robin, Buy Idaho, Captain's Shack, Eggs, Local Markets, Photos By: Bob Young, Sausage, What's For Dinner?, Whats For Breakfast?

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Acme Bake Shop, Big Lost River Meats, Boise Farmers Market, chives, Meadowlark Farms, rye bread

This is what I like about this time of year and the Boise Farmers Market. The chives in the eggs came from our garden. Truly an all Idaho breakfast. Most of these items are available at the Boise Farmers Market, every Saturday at 10th and Grove from 9am – 1pm. Take a look.

Meadowlark Farms Scramble
with
fresh chives

Big Lost River Garlic and Rosemary Sausage

Acme Bake Shop Toasted Rye

Scallops and Lobster For Dinner

12 Monday May 2014

Posted by Bob and Robin in Acme Bake Shop, Acme Bake Shop Breads, Acme Bake Shop Sourdough, Boise Artisan Bakery's, Boise Farmers Market, Buy Idaho, Captain's Shack, Dinner At The Captains Shack, Dinner With Robin, Lobster, Local Farmers Markets, Local Harvests, Local Markets, Locavore, Photos By: Bob Young, Purple Sage Farms, River View Gardens, Salads, Scallops, Seafood, Sourdough Bread, Volcanic Farms, What's For Dinner?, Wine and Food, Wines - California

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Acme Bake Shop, Boise Farmers Market, lobster, ravenswood chardonnay, ravenswood winery, seared sea scallops

Braised Sea Scallops in a Butter and Garlic Sauce. Farm Fresh Salad. 1995 Ravenswood Winery Sangiacomo Chardonnay and Toasted Acme Bake Shop Sourdough. The wine went very well with dinner. This is still a superb wine whose time has come. Time to drink it.

Braised Sea Scallops
in
butter and garlic sauce

Farm Fresh Salad
with
tomatoes and carrot threads

1995 Ravenswood Winery Sangiacomo Chardonnay
Toasted Acme Bake Shop Sourdough

The wine went very well with dinner. This is still a superb wine whose time has come. Time to drink it. And then we can open our 2005 supply of this fantastic chardonnay. Hope it goes as well with this great seafood combination. The components for the salad were all from the Boise Farmers Market as was the Acme Bake Shop sourdough bread. We always eat so well at The Captain’s Shack!

Scotch Eggs For Breakfast

12 Monday May 2014

Posted by Bob and Robin in Appetizers, Breakfast At The Captains Shack, Breakfast With Robin, Buy Idaho, Captain's Shack, Eggs, Local Farmers Markets, Local Harvests, Locavore, Photos By: Bob Young, Recipes, Scotch Eggs, Whats For Breakfast?

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I have never tasted Scotch Eggs. Robin has, probably in another life or at Piper Pub here in Boise. They were “invented” in London in an upscale department store. Here is a link for more information on Scotch Eggs – What Are They?, posted earlier on this blog. (There is a recipe there also.) They are really not too difficult to make, but I think I should have had the heat a little lower, cooked them slower and a little longer. But they were good. Enjoy!

Scotch Eggs prepped and ready for frying.

Scotch Eggs. This is how I presented them.

Scotch Eggs

Great Pork Chop Dinner Tonight

10 Saturday May 2014

Posted by Bob and Robin in Arugula, Buy Idaho, Captain's Shack, Comfort Food, Dinner With Robin, Greens, Heirloom Tomatoes, Local Markets, Photos By: Bob Young, Salad, Volcanic Farms, What's For Dinner?, Wine and Food, Wines - California

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Boise Farmers Market, pork, pork chops, sage, sage gravy, salad greens, Volcanic Farms

Especially good when you realize that the fresh salad greens were from the Boise Farmers Market this morning as were the tomatoes. The gravy was a sage gravy – the sage from our garden. Look at this.

Seared Bone-In Pork Chop Masdhed Potatoes with Sage Gravy Corn Fresh Green Salad with Fresh Tomatoes 2012 Line 39 Petite Sirah - North Caast

Pan Seared Bone-In Pork Chop
Mashed Potatoes
with
sage gravy
Corn
Fresh Green Salad and Fresh Tomatoes
2012 Line 39 Petite Sirah – North Coast

Great Saturday for Three Reasons!

10 Saturday May 2014

Posted by Bob and Robin in Big Lost River Meats, Boise Farmers Market, Buy Idaho, C and G Wild Alaska Salmon, Local Farmers Markets, Local Harvests, Local Markets, Salmon, Sausage, Scans By: Bob Young, Seafood, Special Information, What's For Dinner?

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Yes indeed! A great Saturday for three reasons: (1) Be sure to congratulate Robin on being 5 weeks smoke free! It’s not easy. (2) Wish Robin a Happy Mother’s Day tomorrow and (3) A good time at the Boise Farmers Market, even though the weather was not the best – It snowed on the mountain! I met some great new vendors today. The Big Lost River Meats in Mackay, ID ((208) 588-3085), their Garlic and Rosemary Sausage is wonderful and C&G’s Wild Alaska Salmon. I got some good salmon information from them. Enjoy the information! Cheers.

Big Lost River Meats 410 Pine Street Mackay Idaho 83251 (208) 588- 2849 This was a great sausage.

Big Lost River Meats
410 Pine Street
Mackay,Idaho 83251
(208) 588- 3085
This was a great sausage.

Here is some good information on salmon. We always have Coho (Silver) or Copper River Sockeye (Red) salmon in our freezer. No problem having baked or poached salmon several times a week.

C&G W@ild Alaska Salmon
C&G Wild Alaska Salmon
Great information about them and contact information on their web site

Delightful Visit at Sizzler In Boise

08 Thursday May 2014

Posted by Bob and Robin in Avocado, Beer and Food, Brocolli, Cuts of Beef, Dinner With Robin, Lobster, Main Dish, Photos By: Bob Young, Restaurant Reviews, Restaurants, Salads, Seafood, Shell Fish, Sizzler, What's For Dinner?

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I know. It’s a chain. But let me tell you, this was a surprisingly good visit. The Service People were tremendous. Happy. Pleasant. They appear to like to work here. The service was tremendous. I met the Manager and he was very pleasant and a pleasure to talk to. And the food was very good. But what really impressed me was the salad bar. Huge variety of objects to put on your salad. Even 1/2 avocados. And fruit. They even have a taco bar. And a dessert bar. An again, it was all really good food. We had the Steak and Lobster. The steak was well prepared and delicious. It was by no means as tender as that we have had at Bern’s Steakhouse in Tampa, but the flavor was every bit as good! Think about that. The lobster was a little small, but again was cooked well. Not rubbery. I cut it with my fork. Just look at these photos. And here is a link to their Web Site. Enjoy. We did and we will return. For a chain restaurant, it is well worth 4-Stars out of 5-Stars.

Crab Salad

Salad Bar Choices

How many salad bars have avocados? Or Kiwi? And a good selection of fresh fruit?

At least 3 types of lettuce for your salad. And great toppings, too. I’d go back just for the salad bar! It’s that good.

Salad bar toppings.

Our Steak and Lobster dinners. Wonderful mushrooms and onions. And broccoli. You make the choices for steak toppings, rareness of the steak and vegetable selections. Robin had a baked potato with all the fixins’.

Chicken Piccata Dinner

07 Wednesday May 2014

Posted by Bob and Robin in Arugula, Cabbage, Capers, Captain's Shack, Carrots, Cheese, Chicken, Dinner With Robin, Greens, Healthy Eating, Idaho Wine, Indian Creek Winery, Italian Food, Local Farmers Markets, Local Markets, Main Dish, Photos By: Bob Young, Piccata, Risotto, What's For Dinner?, Wine and Food

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This was one awesome dinner tonight! There’s not much else to say. Here is the recipe Chicken Piccata, pdf format.

Chicken Piccata with Truffle Risotto and Peas and Steamed China Peas and Celery. 1990 Indian Creek (Idaho) Chardonnay

Chicken Piccata
Truffle Risotto and Peas
Steamed China Peas and Celery
1990 Indian Creek (Idaho) Chardonnay

May Events at The Buzz

07 Wednesday May 2014

Posted by Bob and Robin in Appetizers, Herbs, Herbs and Spices, Miner's Lettuce, Party Time, Photos By: Bob Young, Special Dinners, Special Events, Spices, Things To Do, What's For Dinner?, Wine and Food, Wine Dinners, Wine Tasting

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I just received this from Cristi and Tommy at The Buzz here in Boise. We will be at the monthly dinners – they are fantastic and loads of fun! – and I hope we see you there, too! Remember, to participate in some of these events (Monthly dinner and Quarterly Dinners), you will need to make reservations!
(208) 344-4321

Buzz Coffee & Wine Events

Hello. Hope everyone is enjoying the rollercoaster weather that we call Spring here in Boise. We have some fun events coming up and would love to see you at any or all of them.

Thanks to everyone’s support during our families loss last month. We appreciate the prayers and well wishes, and are terriby sorry for having to cancel the wine dinner with such short notice. Again thanks for understanding.

Cristi and Tom Takeda
Buzz Coffee and Wine

Wine Club Dinner: We will be discussing Herbs and Spices.
Join us at 6:30 on May 13 or 14 for a Five Course Dinner, Wine – pared with the food and included in the dinner price -, and a discussion of herbs and spices. Only $20 a person. Reservations required buzzwine@cableone.net or 344-4321.

Music in May

May 9th Carter Freeman
May 16th Jean Cardena
May 23rd Blaze and Kelly
May 30th Pat Foulkner

Music from 7-9 with free wine tasting, dinner and dessert specials. Come join us. No reservations needed

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