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Top Chef Finale Part 1(spoilers)
Hard to say...but just about every commetary I’ve seen (including most opinions expressed here) has felt Stefan is going into the finale the one to beat, despite last week’s overcooked salmon (and Stefan certainly...
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Eating like a Chowhound on $3 a day – Week 1 menu and recipes
.50 a pound black label cheddar and inexpensive salmon). And a pound of shrimp will feed the two of us for two meals. Still a neat experiment — what a great technique to get yourself motivated and educated about food!
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Provence & Paris Travel Log
, it sure beats the hell out of the blueberry muffin that I get from the street vendor in NYC every morning. We continued onto Arles passing through the Fontvieulle. In every field there are thousands, maybe millions of wild...
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Top Chef-Improv
/Stephs was hard to eat, had too many ingredients, and possibly didn’t taste good on top of it. Heck, they could’ve made vegetable sushi rolls with brilliant orange salmon roe that looked a lot better at plating at...
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Top Chef 2 = Finale Part 1 (potential spoilers)
to Elia and she has gone off the deep end. If you read the entire interview at the end even the interviewer was laughing at her wild speculations.
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cooks illustrated
complicated sounded pretty basic, as far as technique goes (Sear-Roasted Salmon with Lemon-Rosemary Butter Sauce). I don’t mean disrespect to a magazine it sounds like you really like, I’m just wondering if it gets...
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Clement Street Chow Update (Richmond District, SF): D&A Cafe
, but with a small piece of tai snapper and one of salmon with a handful of mussels and some potatoes, Mom said it was enough if you ate the whole thing. Which she did, mopping up all the flavorful fish stock. My own choice was...
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Best hoods for food shopping in London
shopping, but probably not as your standard. On the Whole Foods note, they also own and operate Fresh and Wild, which are smaller but still expensive as hell organic/health shops in Camden and Soho. Bring your American measuring...
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German food - undeserved bad reputation
we go there we have some good eats: sauerbraten & spaetzle, wild boar ragout, fried camembert with lingonberries, trout with slivered almonds, red currant tart. All very typical. In southern Germany you also find...
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2nd Street Cafe
and 11th Street, has started serving food. It is a fireman’s bar. It’s probably pretty good. I know this may be a funny sounding list, and some of these places have their problems, but they are generally damn good and...
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Reviews From Hawaii - Kauai, Poipu & Oahu, North Shore and Honolulu [Long]
Pepper Coulis.” Outstanding. I do not know how the loss of most of the sugarcane fields in Hawaii might impact this dish in years to come, but right now it is wonderful. My wife chose the Duck Confit and Wild Mushroom Risotto,...
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Food of Doom
to offer, from the basics (tuna, hamachi, salmon) to the moderately daring (eel, uni, squid) to the master levels (grilled baby octopus, fried monkfish liver, raw scallops,) but I never happened to order Natto before. It...
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L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon, Las Vegas
was seen as too subtle. - egg and mushroom cocotte – a martini glass w a layer of parsely puree on the bottom, topped with a perfectly poached egg, some bits of wild mushrooms, and a mushroom foam on the top. Another just...
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Two Weeks in Berkeley (trip report, long)
phraya salmon looked terrific but were muted to the point of vanishing. For some reason, some of our party decided to have dessert in, so our end of the table ordered a couple to share. I don’t know what was going on in the...
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Which snacks to beat pre-dinner munchies/diet sabotage?
I have this problem too. Some snacks I enjoy: celery and peanut butter, smoked salmon with a lite cream cheese, hard boiled eggs, carrots and hummus, I really like cottage cheese but know a lot of ppl don’t. I think the key...
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