The San Francisco Chronicle tasks its Taster’s Choice panel with ranking the turkey bacon brands. Short version? If your fork can’t touch pork, Oscar Meyer’s Louis Rich brand wins by, like, a lot. And if you shop at Kroger, definitely skip the house label. (via) (photo)
“It takes a special kind of nutjob to attempt every recipe in The French Laundry Cookbook,” Carol Blymire writes on French Laundry at Home, where she did exactly that. Start with her recap and retrospective, then work your way back through all the brilliant success and maddening kitchen sadism. (via) (pic)
Zilly Rosen, a cake artist from OBK’s home base of Buffalo, NY, leaves us nearly without words with her 1,250-cupcake Obama portrait. Read how she did it at Cupcakes Take the Cake.
If you carefully read what scientists report about links between nutrition and health, it can be anough to give you an upset stomach. One year a low-fat diet is supposed to help lower the risk of cancer. The next year another study says, not really. Omega-3 fatty acids are supposed to help prevent heart disease, [...]
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There are people who say that Bocce’s on Bailey Avenue does not make the best thick, pepperoni-studded, Buffalo style pizza. They are sadly mistaken.
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Just put the peppers on a pan close to the heating element (or on a grill) and keep turning them as they blacken. When thoroughly black, pop them in a bag and close it, keeping the steam inside. Leave till cool.
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We went for $15.95 dinner plates that included spaetzle, a fresh noodle-like dumpling; kraut, braised red cabbage and a pickle. Scott had rouladen, beef wrapped around a filling that included chopped pickles and mustard seed, in a creamy sauce. I went for the “Schlachtplatte” sausage assortment, with weisswurst, knockwurst and another offering that may have had cheese in it.
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Spanish chorizo browned with eggs and onions gives you lots of flavor for a few pesos.
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The focus on fat-free, calorie-counting cooking these days has gotten lots of folks feeling like a pat of butter on their baked potato is a mortal sin. Everybody could use a dose of perspective.
Which, as it turns out, is on the menu at Sodolak’s Original Country Inn, in Snook, Texas. The next time you’re torturing [...]
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Hoowa Supermarket, on Sheridan Drive in Amherst, has one of the broadest selections of international groceries, frozen goods and vegetables, in Western New York.
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Vargas’ pernil sandwich
There is a burden that comes with knowledge. Especially the knowledge that you can drive down Hudson Street, about two blocks off Niagara Street, and get a beautiful Puerto Rican roast pork sandwich - pernil - for $4. There is no way I can feel anything but wretched now whenever I’m forced by [...]
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99 Fast Food gives pho lovers in Buffalo, N.Y. a chance at beef noodle soup and other Vietnamese gems.
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When you’re a topnotch author and trained cook like Michael Ruhlman, having knocked out a few little titles like the French Laundry Cookbook and the acknowledged bible of home-curing meats, Charcuterie, what do you whip up for a cozy stay-at-home New Year’s Eve?
Why, a roasted whole foie gras, of course. Why didn’t I think of that?
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