Notes From All Over -- Part 4 -- July 8 2019

The Book Page

One of my pet peeves: family members buying recipe books. There is no reason on God's green-internet-connected-earth to be buying recipe books any more. If you need a recipe, google it. Or cut out the recipe on the package and tape it to the back of one of your cabinet doors.

This weekend, at our favorite bookstore, Kinokuniya Bookstore, I stumbled across an incredibly good recipe book. After a week in Montana cooking over a wood fire, this book was perfect.

So I bought it.

At Amazon, link here.

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Slow cooking in the kitchen now: brisket. That will be for later this week. Slow-cooked brisket and vegetables always seem better a few days out.

For tonight. Salmon.

Finishing sauce: Wasabi Ginger Finishing Sauce.

On the northeast side of Flathead Lake: Big Fork, MT.

On the west side of main street in Big Fork, MT: Roma's Gourmet Kitchen Store. Our favorite store -- well, at least for kitchen stuff -- in the whole world.

We bought a lot of stuff on our last visit there, a week ago. A lot of stuff. So much stuff, the owner-manager gave us a gift of Australian Flake Salt. I'll get the link later. She said to put the salt on buttered walnut-fennel bread. We got a loaf of walnut-fennel bread at an out-of-the-way farmer's market farther south on highway 35. And, wow, she was right -- walnut-fennel bread, butter and Australian flake salt. Incredible.

But I digress. Where was I?

Oh, yes, Wasabi Ginger Finishing Sauce. After a combine 85 years of shopping in kitchen stores, May and I have a pretty discerning eye for all things "kitchen." And there is was, this popped out at me. Wasabi Ginger ...

I grabbed a bottle and asked the manager whether she would recommend it. Get this: of the 14,910 line items she has in her little kitchen store, the #1 seller is this Wasabi Ginger Finishing Sauce. She has trouble keeping it in stock. It comes from a small mom-and-pop herb farm in fly-over country. Checking out the webpage, the farm has six finishing sauces, and yes, they do run out.

So, tonight: salmon and this sauce.

Mix a little of this sauce with mayonnaise for artichokes and another great taste sensation. Amazing.

So, I'm excited about Finding Fire.

Wow, what a digression.

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