• News bites

    • 11.17.08

      The best of the second-best bacon

      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)


    • 11.10.08

      Carol Cooks Keller

      “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)


    • 11.07.08

      Cakes we can believe in

      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.


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Recipe: Refrigerator pickle brine, dill and garlic can conquer even the dreaded zucchini

Now I know how to deal with those scaly green monsters: Cut out their hearts. Dunk chunked squash into a garlicky brine, spiced as you desire. Wait three days.

Souvlaki recipe and tzatziki tips: Know your Greek classics

This recipe is for souvlaki, or kebabs, the Greek classic with tzatziki, yogurt-cucumber sauce flavored with fresh dill and garlic.

Restaurants: Seabar City, Buffalo, New York

Mike Andrzejewski at Seabar City checks out his counterman’s work.
One of the things on Seabar’s menu that people like to talk about is the Beef on Weck roll ($12), which replaces raw fish with lightly cooked beef filet.

Andrzejewski started making it a few restaurants ago, and featured it at Seabar, in Williamsville (5235 Main St., [...]