There will come a time during your Las Vegas vacation where you will no longer be able to eat another crab leg from the buffet, one more seared eel in lamb pee from the celebrity chef restaurant, or an additional 99 cent shrimp cocktail. This is about the time that will need to have one of […]
If you’ve been reading this column, then you know that I’ve effusively extolled the virtues of Quorn, the non-soy chicken (and turkey, beef, etc. but mostly chicken) alternative. I’m obsessed with it and think it’s the greatest thing to happen to vegetarians since Ruby Tuesday started serving veggie burgers (before they started to suck hardcore). […]
Do you want to know how to make those luscious items you read on menus? Shift into reverse and bring that menu home! One of the only chain restaurants I frequent is Not Your Average Joe’s (and Chipotle Grill….). Today the four-year-old and I took my Mum out to lunch to thank her for taking […]
You guys, I can make any good thing bad. Plan a picnic; I’ll bring the ants. Go swimming; I’ll bring the lightning. So it goes without saying that I totally have the ability to make even being a vegetarian unhealthy. Now granted, I am a very healthy person: I never get sick, I don’t have […]
I think all of us here can say that we love to cook. Perhaps some of us like to eat more than we like to cook, but we all take some sort of pleasure out of chopping, slicing, dicing, sauteing, frying, baking, braising, or grilling. I was thinking today though, about what really makes cooking […]
