Valerie and I just finished dining at Tapas Restaurant on Hilton Head Island. As the name indicates, the menu consisted of small plates, but the flavors and preparations circled the culinary world (leaning heavily toward French Cuisine). Between the two of us we sampled 8 different dishes - sharing with each other, of [...]
Category Archives: Food
Consommé Demystified
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Michael Pardus, instructor at the Culinary Institute of America, shows how straightforward it can be to make as classic a dish as consommé on the food blog, A Hunger Artist. Sure, not everybody in The States has beef hearts or leeks lying around, but the general concept certainly seems a whole lot less obfuscated [...]
With Whom There Is a Beef
Thursday, August 7, 2008
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that some Boy Scouts took ill because of some E. coli-tainted ground beef from California.
So, really, do Virginians consume so much beef that they’re underserved by the state’s second largest agricultural industry? And of all places, why on earth did meat from the OTHER SIDE OF THE COUNTRY find its [...]
The Essence of the Cow
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Tonight I braised a pair of beef shanks for dinner. A pair of dry-aged shanks from a humanely raised cow, to be specific. I used garlic, soy sauce, freshly ground ginger (a first for me), basil, salt, pepper, and water for the braise, and the zest and juice of a lemon to brighten [...]
Soy Vay!
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Soy Vay; Kosher Asian sauces and marinades. Now the eighth of me that’s Jewish can snack guilt-free.
I wonder which variety of He’brew pairs best with these…
Lulu’s - Belated First Impressions
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
I suppose my weekend was so relaxing that I completely forgot to write about my first visit to Lulu’s in Shockoe Bottom, so here I am, four days after my brunch, making up for just that.
The interior was visually interesting if a bit disjointed; the jury’s out on the pairs of close-set columns separating the [...]
Finally Eating at Chiocca’s
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Tonight I decided to eat dinner at Chiocca’s in the Museum District. It looks like my favorite sandwich in Richmond has been usurped by a piled-high pastrami and cheddar on rye, nice and hot.
If you can take the smokey and dive-yet-comfortable interior, grab a seat and enjoy. If you can’t, call a head [...]
BACON FLOSS
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
GENTLEMEN…BEHOLD!!!
(via Uncrate, which still has a good one left every now and then)
Melted Roast Beef
Monday, June 16, 2008
The following is excerpted from an actual conversation with an Arby’s employee while I ordered my lunch today:
ME: I’d like a roast beef melt -
EMPLOYEE: Do you want cheese on that?
Clever Flavor Combinations
Saturday, June 7, 2008
This past week I was fortunate enough to experience two inventive foods - each from two of my favorite Richmond food establishments.
First off was the pork/pistachio/truffle sausage from the Belmont Butchery. When Tanya suggested this initially I decided to try a link mostly out of curiosity, but I was completely taken aback by how [...]
