The MOM 100 Blog

• June 14, 2012 • 0 COMMENTS

  Recipe: Fork-In-The-Road Pad Thai

  This dish is one of the most popular in Thailand and in Thai restaurants throughout the world, for excellent reason. It’s amazing. It’s a quintessential example of the homerun that is Southeast Asian food — a blend of hot and sour, salty and sweet. It provides your taste buds with plenty to keep them busy,... MORE

• June 12, 2012 • 1 COMMENT

  Recipe: Pasta with Extreme White Clam Sauce

  This is a stupidly clammy sauce, so full of clams, it should really be called clams with pasta. The clams in the shell are beautiful and whole and delicious, but the sauce is riddled with plump morsels of chopped clams, so every bite of pasta is filled with clams, not just the forkfuls that are... MORE

• June 07, 2012 • 0 COMMENTS

  Get Yourself a Bake and Shark at Maracas Beach, Trinidad

  Gary I went to a friend’s daughter’s wedding in Trinidad this past weekend. While the wedding was beautiful, the dancing was excellent, and the Caribe beer quite thirst quenching, the following was one of the most memorable parts. We went to a beach called Maracas beach, where they are famous for their waves and their Bake... MORE

• June 05, 2012 • 3 COMMENTS

  Recipe: How to Bake Your Bacon

  Ladies and gentlemen, are you frustrated by unevenly cooked bacon?  Are you embarrassed by bacon curled up into unseemly snarls?  Are you tired of skidding around on a skating rink of grease in front of your stove as you suffer the splattering hot grease that comes out of the frying pan? Well, you don’t have... MORE

• May 31, 2012 • 3 COMMENTS

  31 Hours in Cincinnati in Lists

  In a city of very nice people, here were some of the nicest: Courtney Tsitouris, a local food blogger and videographer who is chronicling the burgeoning food scene in this friendly city. Jose Salazar, the chef at renowned restaurant, The Palace in The Cincinnatian, who gave me some huge purple asparagus to bring home. Nick Dietrich,... MORE

• May 29, 2012 • 1 COMMENT

  57 Hours in Dallas in Lists

  Times someone blessed my heart: Seven Great moment while teaching cooking class at Central Market in Plano: 12 year old boy, after tasting Miso Cod Fingers, said that this fish had “changed his life.” Dining experiences I shan’t soon forget: Insane-tasting dinner that Stephan Pyles‘ restaurant prepared at his eponymous restaurant. Let’s just say any meal that starts... MORE

• May 23, 2012 • 2 COMMENTS

  4 Days in Washington, DC in Lists

  This trip was thankfully a bit longer than others, in large part due to the fact that my sister, her husband, and two daughters live here, and we turned it into a bit of a family weekend with Gary and the boys coming down for part of it. Best reason for spending 4 days in... MORE

• May 21, 2012 • 0 COMMENTS

  I Forget; Are Ramps Still Cool?

  Ramps are a source of much pleasure for many, and some controversy. There has been a lot written about them in the past several weeks, as there always is in the early spring, in our seasonally-crazed food world. On the surface, they are a lovely harbinger of spring, wild leeks that are unable to be... MORE

• May 17, 2012 • 2 COMMENTS

  Recipe: Pasta with Ramps and a Light Cream Sauce

  You will notice in the photo that there is a small pile of lobster perched atop the pasta. This is not our usual weeknight fare. This is the good fortune of making this dish post-Mother’s Day, after we had brought cooked lobsters home for dinner as a treat. Uncharacteristically, there was enough left over to... MORE

• May 16, 2012 • 0 COMMENTS

  33 Hours in Tulsa in Lists

  Lovely people I spent time with: Jeff Martin, the founder of BookSmart, who hosted a “Moms’ Night Out” event at the adorable Blue Moon Cafe and Bakery April Brooks, who knows so much about Tulsa that she should be elected mayor of Tulsa, and is making me seriously consider living there. She makes amazing things out... MORE