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In today’s world with comfort food all of the rage and less people baking in the kitchen, Crave Cupcakes in Houston seems ingenious. A simple concept, Crave Cupcakes makes a variety of fresh gourmet cupcakes using high quality ingredients such as vanilla from Madagascar and milk from Texas dairy farms. They serve gourmet classics such as red velvet, or not easy to find flavors such as Nutella cupcakes. You can stop in and buy one cupcake or a whole box! When you walk in the |
One of the best ways to experience and learn about other cultures is through their food. If you are not able to go to the place you want to go right now, why not make the place come to you by cooking their food? It can be a lot of fun to have a themed dinner night. I have wanted to explore Spain a bit more, and when I think of Spain I think of paella. Paella is a dish that is a party in itself. Paella is a rice dish which contains varying degrees of seafood, meats, |
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Fat Mikes at the Market is a new local joint in Spring, Texas. It has that sorta vibe that only a Texan knows when you are walking in. Maybe it’s the tree outside holding up the roof, or the beautiful all wood bar on the inside. Maybe it’s the dim lighting or the tin siding on the walls that makes a Texan feel at home. The vibe is a little bit honky tonk and 100% Texas. Something deep down inside, just tells you this place is going to be good! Fat Mike’s serves Texas comfort
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It has been a while since my last post. No reason in particular. Even though I haven’t posted, I have pondered quite a lot about food. I cook a lot, but do not always share what I cook on the blog. I often experiment and make different dishes. Sometimes, the dishes I create taste great, but do not always photograph perfectly. After all, I am not really a photographer. Tonight, I was watching a recording of Avec Eric with famed chef Eric Ripert where he goes |
The 2016 Olympics will be in Brazil. That gives you plenty of time to get hip with the Brazilian culture before you are on your way. One of the key aspects of your cultural study will involve cachaca and the caipirinha. No, these aren’t killer Brazilian fish. Cachaca is a liquor, and if you haven’t heard of it yet, you will. Some call it Brazilian rum, however most rums are made from molasses where |
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Salt Lick BBQ in Driftwood, TX. is considered the best BBQ place in the world by many. It has been highly acclaimed and visited by many food network and travel channel personalities. I recently visited the Salt Lick to see what was cooking! The BBQ here is definitely great BBQ. I have been to many a BBQ joint and am often disappointed. Too many proclaimed great BBQ joints are mediocre at best. You won’t be disappointed at the Salt Lick. Of course going to the Salt Lick is part
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About a week ago I visited Bohanan’s Prime Steaks & Seafood in San Antonio, TX for the second time. This is one of the best restaurants around. I would describe it as France meets Texas. The dining room has a contemporary French feel. It is a beautiful restaurant with pine hardwood floors that help to set the mood for a foodies delight. The place has a bit of an old world feeling with the type of table side service that is hard to find these days. Many dishes are prepared table side
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South Congress Café in the hip SoCo area of Austin is comfort food for the native Texan. Many UT students are fans of Austin’s very own Trudy’s. SoCo Café has the same ownership, but it is a kicked up version. Fortunately, you can still order the very same Mexican Martini that they serve at Trudy’s. If you are unfamiliar a Mexican Martini is essentially a Margarita served in the cocktail shaker and poured into a martini glass. SoCo garnishes theirs with an olive. After all, it is a
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There is just something about Rolando’s Super Tacos in San Antonio, Texas. You have to love any place that has tortillas bigger then your head. Well, anyplace that has fresh homemade tortillas bigger then your head. This is not your chipotle or your classy Mexican place down the street. This is where the locals in San Antonio go. I don’t know if Zimmern or Bourdain have been there yet, but if they hang around Texas for long enough they may find it. I went for the Lengua a la Mexicana or sliced
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Feast Restaurant in Houston, as the sign says provides rustic European fare. What is rustic you might ask? The restaurant has the look and feel of a nice pub, with dark woods throughout the building and strange paintings on the walls. However, the food is not your standard pub fare of bangers and mash and fish and chips. Dining here is indeed a culinary experience. The standard American palette will indeed want to forego any normal notions of what’s for dinner, and choose from the menu with an
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I often frequent a new pizza place in my neighborhood called Pizza Fusion. When I went the other night it occurred to me, why haven’t I blogged about this place yet? After all, I have been there multiple times. Pizza Fusion is a relatively new franchise that is expanding rapidly throughout the country. They make great pizzas using high quality fresh ingredients. You can order a personal pizza or a full size pizza. I recommend the Founders pie with free range chicken or the
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January 8th would have been Elvis Presley’s 75th birthday. Elvis indeed was a worldwide sensation. He is still well known today, even though he passed away over 30 years ago. One of the things that Elvis was known for was some of his bizarre eating habits. Elvis loved southern comfort food most of all, which is understandable. When you are always out on the road and away from home, you crave the comforts and food from home. Elvis loved
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One of the things that are key to being a good cook whether commercially or in your home is finding good bargains at the local market as well as being able to use leftovers to create new dishes so that there is very little waste. The other day when I was at the market I saw they had a 7 pound Boston Butt for only $5. This cut of meat is actually the shoulder of the front leg of the pig. The Boston Butt is most notably used in the Carolinas to make pulled pork. With a little |
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Well here we are again. New Years Eve is just around the corner and its time to reflect on the past year and look forward to a new one. This New Year’s is even more special as it welcomes in a new decade. It’s hard to believe that it is already 2010. I remember being a kid thinking about how far off 2010 would be and what crazy modern technology we would have by now. With a blink of an eye however 2010 is upon us and 2009 is out the door. Looking back, 2009 could be
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Saw the new Sherlock Holmes movie this weekend and it made me think about my trip to England and Scotland a few years back. There really is a Baker Street in London and on the street you can now find a recreation of Sherlock Holmes house at 221 B Baker Street. It is a must stop for any Sherlock Holmes fan. Inside you can sit in Holmes study or even meet Dr. Watson himself. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who was the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, was from Edinburgh, |
Houston is finally on the radar of the national culinary map. Everyday national food writers are asking themselves with surprise, what is this chef doing in Houston? This week all eyes in the Houston area turn to Tesar’s Modern Steak and Seafood in the Woodlands. While everyone else is looking there, I decided to visit the restaurant voted as the number one seafood restaurant in the US by Bon Appetit. Reef Houston was also voted one of the top 50 new restaurants in the |
Max’s Wine Dive in the current trendy Heights area of Houston has a great menu. It is a mixture of gourmet style comfort food with Texas influenced ingredients. The crowd is young and the place is packed with people. Yet, they try to take the pretentiousness away from the food. Waiters wear shirts that say Champagne and Fried Chicken. I couldn’t agree more. I love fried chicken and who says I can’t have champagne with it? It actually complements quite nicely. Welcome to foodiedom. Throw |
Tuesday night, domestic goddess and British best selling author Nigella Lawson came to Houston to promote her new book Nigella Christmas. She has starred on the food network with the shows Nigella Feasts and Nigella Express, as well as starred on the BBC in the UK. At first, I wasn’t sure if I would want a Christmas cook book. Perhaps I was afraid that the book would only be good for one meal a year. After reading through Nigella’s book, I was happy that I picked it up. She is |
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So it’s Sunday and football is on. What to have for lunch? Tired of grilling regular burgers and dogs? Why not take the burger experience to the next level and make grilled lamb burgers stuffed with goat cheese? Lamb has more flavor then a regular hamburger, and goat cheese compliments the lamb so perfectly. A nice juicy lamb burger with a bit of cooked onion and that rich creaminess that the goat cheese adds, this is guaranteed to take your burger experience to the next level. For mine, I take
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Thanksgiving has now come and gone. I hope you had a good one. I know I did. How many of us know about the roots of Thanksgiving and why we eat the dishes that we do? Like so much of history, much of what we learned as kids was not correct. For instance, did you know the pilgrims didn’t really wear buckles on their clothes? The dinner we were taught about occurred in 1621. However, Thanksgiving wasn’t officially declared a holiday until |
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