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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 |
Any culinary journey to Michigan would obviously lead me to Homer in south central Michigan. “Homer is home” is the motto of this small village. For me, it was always my home away from home, as I only lived there until I was three years old. However, my father grew up there and we would return to visit our family. Homer is a place where the “Main Street USA” of yesteryear lives on. It is a small place and therefore change is not quick to take hold. What better |
Butternut Squash Soup is a great fresh start to a fall dinner. It is light, sweet, and has all the flavor of fall. The bright yellow color of the soup reminds me of the changing leaves on the trees. I just returned from Michigan, where squash in peoples gardens was being harvested everywhere. Seeing this inspired me to make this soup. I hope it brings the fall to your table. You will need:
1 Large Butternut Squash
2 Shallots
4 Garlic Cloves
3 Cups of Chicken |
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Halloween. Have just returned from traveling. First a visit to sunny southern California and then on to Michigan. Two different climates. In California, still warm and sunny with a hint of summer. In Michigan, the transformation of fall is well under way. The leaves have changed to bright yellows, oranges, and reds. The leaves have begun falling and gathering in large piles on the ground. The cool crisp air gives you the feeling that fall is truly here and you get a strong sense of
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In the first episode of Avec Eric featured on PBS, French chef Eric Ripert goes to Italy to hunt wild boar. However, since not everyone back in the states has access to wild boar, he makes a wonderful dish with pork tenderloin that we can all enjoy. It looked great on television so I decided to make the dish myself. The dish is pork tenderloin with wild mushrooms, cloves of garlic, and a sage jus. If you missed the show you can get the recipe on Eric’s site
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Stilton and leek soup is something that I hadn’t had before I went to England. We were out in the middle of the country at a pub called the De La Pole arms in Wingfield Village. This is a village that my ancestors settled around the 14th century. Today, there are only about 300 people that live spread out in the area, and Wingfield consists of the bare essentials. You have your castle, your church, and most importantly, your pub. We went to the church first and paid
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October has arrived. Can hardly believe it is here already. The food network fan site says its national vegetarian day. When I think of vegetarian, for some reason I always think of Vietnamese cuisine as they have a lot of vegetable dishes. They sauté spinach with garlic which I always thought was good idea and then they add tofu for protein. You can also do tofu curry or sweet and sour tofu. Black pepper fried tofu isn’t bad either. Anyhow, I wouldn’t make a
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Cooking can be considered a mirror of life. You get out of it what you put in. If you use sub par ingredients you get sub par results. At the same time, you can take a few simple ingredients and turn it into something magnificent. Great pizza dough can be made with just yeast, flour, sugar, olive oil, salt and water. Cooking like life also requires some hard work. You have to chop, cut, slice, stir, and measure your ingredients. Sometimes you add too much sauce or
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The winner results are in from the Great American Beer festival this weekend in Denver, Colorado. Beer Geeks here is the list of beers for you start trying if you haven’t already.
http://www.greatamericanbeerfestival.com/pdf/winners/gabf09_winners.pdf
Congratulations to Dogfish Head for taking gold and silver in the specialty beer category and to St. Arnolds Brewery of Houston, TX. for winning the gold for their Summer Pilsner. |
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