Tuesday, January 21, 2003

Ode to Salmon Chipotle

If you have dined at Casa Christina, you have heard me sing the praises of Fischer & Wieser's Raspberry Chipotle Sauce and unless a weirdo with seafood allergies -- you would have tasted its wonder over roasted salmon steak.

Although I do occasionally serve it as an appetizer -- mixed with goat cheese on a Carr's cracker -- preferably roasted garlic or cracked pepper.

The goat cheese incarnation is the favored "I've been invited to a party and I have to take something and I've got less than 10 minutes to get my act together" dish.

Read it again slowly -- you know what I mean.

Costco at University and I-10 has the bulk size several bucks cheaper than the company web site offers it and I have inflicted many bottles on friends and family.

Yes, yes... it is so yummy.

So it was gratifying to read this bit in the San Antonio Express today -- which has several paragraphs devoted to its wonders.

The article profiles a meeting of "food experts from beyond Texas borders" who came to San Antonio "as part of the Les Dames d'Escoffier international conference" -- but be patient and hang in there till the middle...

I was rewarded with this quote from Slick Johnson of Fischer & Wieser:

We're riding a really big wave of raspberry-chipotle.

It made me want to "surf" tonight -- but I am far away from my cocina at the moment -- typing this in the snowy environ of Tahoe.

My odds of finding raspberry chipotle here are so bad that I won't even bother trying. There isn't even a Wal-Mart -- let alone a Sam's or a Costco.

And I am on a primitive dial-up connection too -- no DSL or Broadband can be had in these wilds. Not for love or money.

Plenty of hot water though.

And when it comes down to it -- that is the ultimate Christina civilization barometer -- the quantity and quality of the hot water supply.

I am really a simple soul.

(Of note however in that Express article is the lack of explanation concerning Les Dames d'Escoffier... Conspicuous in its absence)

posted by Bohica at 3:18 PM