Last year (or maybe slightly beyond a year ago), I made baby-back pork ribs. I followed a recipe from the Gourmet cookbook for so-called “Chinese” style ribs. It seemed to me at the time, to go well with potato latkes. This time around, I followed Gourmet’s recipe for latkes, and we had a delicious meal. The ribs […]
Archive for January, 2008
Jan30
Quick Pasta Dinner
Thanks to Cavanna Pasta, this delicious meal was quick to prepare. I like the concept of meatballs without spaghetti. So I served for each person, two of Gianni’s meatballs with his porcini ravioli. My sauce: onion, garlic crimini mushrooms radicchio parmesan cheese marsala wine sweet red pepper relish salt, pepper EVOO applewood smoked bacon I also served Cavanna rolls, but I split the tops, and poured-in […]
Filed in: In the Kitchen
Jan21
Eat out or in?
Neat discussion on eating out vs. eating in, and the budget implications.
Filed in: Banter
Jan19
Beef Short Ribs
I have had short ribs several times at nice places, and each time, the dish, or more properly, the meat, has been delicious. Meltingly delicious, complex, and when served on the bone, it falls off, a real pleasure. I have never made short ribs; I did this weekend. I kind of made my own recipe based upon […]
Filed in: In the Kitchen
Jan17
Kitchen 64
Last week I finally had the opportunity to visit Kitchen 64, located off I-64 in Richmond, VA, at the Boulevard. This place has gotten a lot of press and friends recommended it. They seem to have priced things for a good value on the amount of food you get; the cocktail list wasn’t cheap. On a Saturday […]
Filed in: American Restaurant Review