Welcome to the life at Glenvale Terrace.

A continuing adventure in food and wine

2 Glenvale Terrace has been putting on dinners for friends for the past number of years and 3 Glenvale joined us last year. We thought we might let you in on some of those meals and share our favorite recipes with you. On our 6 burner restaurant stove that I bought from our friends Brian and Laney, we cook daily making interesting and wonderful meals. The constant question though is,"what shall we have for dinner tonight?" and the next question is "who is coming over for dinner?"
We both love to cook and love entertaining and that makes Glenvale Terrace more fun and our house more of the style that I have always dreamed of having.

Shopping is key here of course, fresh vegetables from Arax market in Watertown, meat from BJ’s in bulk to store in the freezer downstairs and fresh fish from Chinatown whenever we can get there to shop. Herbs we grow during the summer and dry for winter use though there is always a rosemary plant growing in the living room, spices fill some of the shelves in the kitchen and the right cookware is crucial. Various sauces from different countries line our refrigerator and basement shelves. Even with a well stocked kitchen there are many trips to the food store. The meal is of course joined with the right wine from the cellar that I have stocked over the years and continue looking for wonderful additions. For various wine suggestions and reviews go to the wine page.

We pride ourselves on trying different things from time to time and go from wonderful gourmet meals that are planned after scouring cook books for suggestions to "what is the easiest thing we can do tonight?" and something quickly thrown together but even those quick meals are delicious and worthy of reflection.
The most constant thing however is that we will generally be cooking for more than the two of us or going next door to cook with Greg and Chris. Chris is also an excellent cook and so we have no end of fun meals during the week. We will share some of our memorable meals in this column.

March 2nd 2000

A few nights ago we celebrated our friend Quigley’s birthday, just the three of us, Greg and Chris had already left for their trip to London though we knew they would be unhappy if they knew what they were missing.
The meal was simple but elegant with a Garlic-Lobster Risotto Calabrese taken from the Olive’s cookbook, a rich meal with lots of garlic flavor. The lobster we brought back from Nassau and the risotto was made with plum tomatoes and the lobster made into a lobster cream event using tomatoes, garlic, lemon zest, oregano and heavy cream.(we should have used light cream but that was all we had) That was served over the risotto and with that we had fresh bread and a mixed salad with tomatoes, red peppers and feta cheese.

The wine I brought up from the cellar and decided finally on a Panther Creek Pinot Noir, the 1992, a rich full body pinot, unfiltered, lots of fruit, an almost Burgundian style, myjestic with a long finish. It was the perfect compliment to the richness of the meal.

We ended with ginger cake that Christina had made covered with lemon curd and a pot of my well known french roast coffee.

The next day we had leftovers and both of us decided that this might have to become a staple in our menus.

Stay tuned for other dinners.

 

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