Posted in eating, tagged osaka, spicy lobster roll, sushi on May 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Just back from lunch at Osaka, the Brizzi family’s favorite local restaurant. We started off our healthy fish and rice with an order of spicy lobster roll, a decadent confection of creamy sauce around lobster rolled up in rice and seaweed, dumped in tempura batter and fried. It was like the best of what’s best [...]
Posted in eating, tagged fiddlehead ferns, fiddleheads on May 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Of course, two days after the cooking class when I needed some promised fiddleheads, they showed up in the local supermarket. So I had to buy some anyway. They were 5.99/lb., which seems kind of steep to me (but everything does these days), but a half a pound makes a large portion to feed [...]
Posted in eating, tagged artichokes, children, Italian vegetable dishes, vegetables on May 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My girl sure loves her artichokes. My daughter Sofia, 6, is a vegetable avoider generally, but she loves artichokes every chance she gets. She polished off this grand specimen, almost bigger than her head, pretty much all by herself, with very little help from Mommy and Daddy. She even expertly removed the choke when the [...]
Posted in eating, tagged Cochon, dining, eating, IACP, IACP conference, New Orleans, seafood on April 25, 2008 | 5 Comments »
How strange it was to be in a food mecca like New Orleans, choking down watery egg product and undercooked chicken sausage in a conference room with no windows. That was really the only bad meal I had, though…well, except for the undercooked steamed chicken breasts…But I managed to eat well anyway. Anyone who knows [...]
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