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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
