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.
One of the better tandoori chicken legs I’ve had, moist and flavorful, only $2.50 a pop.
After reading what Christa Glennie Seychew had to say about this otherwise undistinguished storefront in an otherwise sketchy block of Main Street, curiosity got the better of me.
Kabobs, tandoori chicken, and biryani, the spice-scented basmati rice dish? On [...]
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Leeks from our Native Offerings share, split, washed, sliced and awaiting their final glory.
What do you do if you’ve an abundance of leeks and potatoes, but not enough patience for vichyssoise? Why not leek potato gratin?
I really like vichyssoise, the classic smooth-as-velvet cool cream soup, built on a base of potatoes and leeks. What I’m [...]
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Whether they’re stuffed with sauerkraut, potato, cheese or meat, they’re all ours … right? Photo by aleksandraw
Kevin Purdy, a journalist and blogger working in Niagara County, wrote the following post.
Straight from the files of the Stating the Obvious Dept.: Western New York takes its pierogies seriously.
So seriously that, for many churches around the area, sales [...]
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I did not want to offer this glorious turkey-on-wheat as an obituary, but the best-laid plans of man and blog gang aft agley.
This is kind of mean, but I’m going ahead because one of my main motivations here is to convince readers to appreciate, to celebrate, what’s available around us.
I read this morning [...]
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The beef shawarma was loaded with crusty beef and roasted tomatoes.
We were in Toronto, and hungry, and I was bugging my friend Michael Ryan about shawarma.
So the next thing you know, we’re pulling into this place, Armenian Kitchen (1646 Victoria Park Ave. at Eglinton Ave. E., 416-757-7722).
I had forgotten how tasty a competent [...]
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Three of these beauties for six bucks. Si, por favor.
A sterile-looking corporate office park in North Amherst is not where I expected to have the best restaurant tacos I’ve had in Western New York.
But there it is: Amigos, wedged into the corner of CrossPoint Plaza, off North French Road, a stone’s throw east of the [...]
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A tiny touch of char is essential to the flavor of 99 Fast Food’s barbecue pork.
Over at Buffalo Rising, Christa Glennie Seychew raises one of the great questions about fine dining in Western New York: Why can’t more of our restaurants offer diners the same experience visit after visit?
It’s something I’ve complained about [...]
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When I’m in the mood, I treat cilantro like another salad green. Chop it up? Why?
I forgot to mention my most recent Elements article in the News, focusing on one of the world’s most-used spices, turmeric. (Not “tumeric” - it’s one of the most misspelled words in the cupboard.)
These potatoes have been a [...]
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At first, in the wild, they clung together for safety, unsure what lay ahead.
Of all the meals I prepared this summer, none topped the breakfast one morning at our campsite in Evangola State Park. At least, if you ask my kids.
It was our first time camping, just me and the urchins. Mom stayed [...]
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