I think this was from Food and Wine. Roast either anaheim or poblanos and make a sauce out of 3/4 of the chilis and some cilantro, etc. Awesome!

, in the same way I would be willing to generalize that french or italian cuisine is not spicy. When I lived in Rome I used to have a Roman friend who didn’t like garlic, basil, parsley, wine, or coffee, and I used to joke...

courtesy to be an enjoyable dining companion (her judjements of what you ordered shock me). How she could have thought her behavior in any way enhanced the dining experience you, her companion is beyond me. I completely aggree...

ordered was Shirley aka The Sergeant of Arms’s pork chops. It is my opinion that this contributed to her Shirley ‘The Hammer’ demeanor throughout the day, culminating in her breaking a wine bottle over the head...

alcohol, although this difference might not be as pronounced as that between American and British barley wines. (I speak here of ‘regular’ IPAs, not the double and imperial versions. Weyerbacher recently came out with...

, celebratory sake with gold leaf, which was also featured on opening day. The younger sister also had made the two desserts of the evening, of which they sampled one of each for us. They were both very elegantly conceived; one...

't (thankfully) permeate the meat. The mince pie with Mexican chocolate, rum and pear brandy was fabulous. But, by far, the hit of the dinner were the caramel cranberries enhanced with canela and vanilla :-). The rest? How can...

hour making fun of the woman’s speech patterns. "The whoooooollllle bottle, Gramma. Not half the bottle, not a cup of wine...the whoooooollllle bottle." Perhaps not the best lesson in tolerance, but funny as all get out....

crust. It’s almost like puff pastry. 2 sticks + 2 tablespoons of butter (at least 1 stick of butter should be frozen) 2 ½ cups flour 1 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon sugar ¼ cup of water 2 tablespoons rice wine or cider vinegar Cut

instead of choosing to work with one another. And by the way, Dale’s scallops actually worked conceptually since it’s not a very far jump from scallops in, say, a sauternes or ice wine sauce. Had he been...

great fruit to shine. It is similar to serving wine too cold. Many of the lovely subtle flavors and aromas of a great glass of vino are masked by the cold. Take a trip to the local farmers market. There you will find fruit as it...

demi, and reduced it to 1 1/2 qts stock enhanced with venison trimmings, smoked pheasant drumsticks, leeks, and mushroom stems. I then added 2 cups of tawny port, 1 star anise, 3 cloves, a cinnamon stick and a dozen peppercorns,...

Well, I come from an earlier era (card-carrying AARPer) and I don’t recall any nonsense about food-based posturing and attitudinizing for the purpose of femininity-enhancement. Or, maybe the message was floating around back...

rolls or long rolls as you prefer. If you wish, you can also order freshly shucked oysters (malapagues right now) & clams on the half shell from the fish guy adjoining. While they’re preparing your order, select a bottle of...

A glass of wine for the chef, and music with enough bounce to make mise en place and clean as you go a snap. Then, the soothing sounds of flailing sharp tensils adds to the percussion. A new box of Band-aids nearby is often...