Quick quality of life test for the city you live in: “How different mobile French Fry Trucks do you have?” If your answer is less than 2… think about moving to Washington, DC. We have two different options for getting french fries on the go, and more are coming soon I am sure. I know […]
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You can’t plan an adventure… however, sometimes a half-baked idea and a lack of planning can lead to adventure. Take, for example, the idea of having a pastrami crawl across New York city, with a goal of trying to sample as many unique preparations as possible. This is clearly not the most refined concept… and […]
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Carolyn got me the cookbook, Ad Hoc at Home for Christmas. We went to the restaurant when we were out in Sonoma, and both the restaurant and cookbook are excellent. They focus around good, wholesome food, with detailed preparation. None of the recipes in the cookbook are particularly hard, but they call for specific ingredients […]
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Well, unfortunately, we didn’t make to the next round of the Foodbuzz blogger challenge. While it would have been fun to make it all the way to the end and win $10k, I am not quite sure where I would have found the time. As you can see from the frequency of our posts, we […]
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When it comes to cornbread, we live in a house divided. Carolyn is a fan of Northern style and I like Southern style. Northern style is made with a mixture of cornmeal and flour and a bit of sugar. It rises up high and is nice and light. Southern style is dense and has a […]
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Hooray! We made it to Round 3 of Project Food Blog! Thanks everyone for your help making it this far. The challenge for Round 3 is to host a Luxury Dinner Party. When the wheels started turning on dinner ideas I thought something elaborate like Beef Wellington would be both fun to try making and […]
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I have been making different Greens… or I should say I have been trying to make greens. I generally mess up the seasoning and make it too salty. In my defense it is pretty tricky because you start with a ton of Greens, but they cook down so much. Other times I tried to get […]
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Vote for us in Project Food Blog! (Especially if you are a FoodBuzz Featured Publisher, only their votes count, go figure) So we made it to the next round of Project Food Blog…yay! No time to bask in our victory though, we are on to the next challenge: Ready to tackle a classic dish from […]
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Let’s talk Shiso! It is a Japanese herb which has a taste all its own, although I think it tastes sort of lemony. Its English name is Perilla, although it is sometimes refereed to as the Beefsteak plant. I have no idea why that is. It comes in a green and purple variety and although […]
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So, FoodBuzz is running a contest to find the next food blog star, called Project Food Blog. There are are series of different challenges and people get to vote on which entry should win, just like those reality shows everyone loves. Well, we couldn’t resist an opportunity for self-permotion, along with some guaranteed product-placement. Challenge […]
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