It’s a safe bet that next time you sit down to a sushi dinner, tuna consumption will be imminent. Soon you will have to navigate words and phrases like toro, chu-toro, o-toro, maguro, akami, and more. On top of that, if you happen to find yourself in an upscale sushi restaurant, words like shiromaguro, honmaguro, …
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Top Chef Texas: Quinceañera – What Was That Ingredient? [Buddhacation]
A quinceañera, the title for this weeks episode of Top Chef Texas, is a Latin America party celebrated in countries up and down Central and South America. The impetus behind the celebration is a girl’s15th birthday and the quinceañera serves as a symbol of her passage into womanhood. So it’s against that backdrop that we …
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Seared Salmon with Sweet Curry Couscous [Recipe]
Recently, a friend tasked me to find her a grilled salmon recipe that used something sweet to accent the fish. A little googling turned up a Salmon of the Americas cooking contest from a few years back. Amongst the 41 entries featuring farmed salmon, one that caught my eye was a seared salmon with sweet …
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Top Chef Texas: The Heat Is On – What Was That Ingredient? [Buddhacation]
courtesy toughkidcst on flickr People expect the chefs and cooks who appear on Top Chef to do things most home cooks can’t do. This season of Top Chef Texas has started off notably restrained in that respect. It’s not to say that cooking good simple food isn’t equally as important on the TV show, …
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Top Chef Texas: Premier – What Was That Ingredient? [Buddhacation]
Last night, as the premier episode of Top Chef Texas came to a close, there was a collective grunt in the world of the food literati. Not always known for their technical prowess, writers everywhere grumbled over the need to familiarize themselves with ways to insert an umlaut/diaeresis into online posts. With no traditional elimination …
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Make Your McRib Fancy
image courtesy of FancyFastFood.com McDonald’s decision to bring back the McRib has absolutely inundated food news over the past few days. Even mainstream media lamed things up with their coverage and there has been a surge of new “make your own McRib” posts going up. So why did I jump on the band wagon? B/c …
21 Club Caesar Salad [Recipe]
Caesar Salad recipe adapted from The “21” Cookbook (buy on Amazon) Caesar dressing recipes are as ubiquitous as any. Everyone has their way of doing it and many will debate the merits of one version over another. For the record – I do fall in the pro anchovies camp. I’ve sampled a wide number of …
Callie’s Biscuits: Newell Tested, Buddha Approved
Last night, while most of you were sleeping, I was several libations deep in the sounds of Truth & Salvage Company. While that may or may not interest you (as T&S does rock), what should interest you was my behavior during our little pre-concert tailgate. You see, the house was filled with people from my …
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Cooking Comically: Pancakes Never Tasted So Sexy
Forget JT, Tyler Capps is the dude who has been bringing sexy back. His Cooking Comically website may just be the best new recipe site on the web. A little over a month ago, Capps decided to use his artistic talents and his love of creating food to put together some very stylized recipes. His …
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Bacon Pancakes [Recipes]
I hate bacon. I don’t really mean bacon itself, rather … I hate what has become of bacon. It’s everywhere and it’s Benton’s fault! Still, when I found this recipe for bacon strip pancakes, I knew I had to make them! So while y’all are reading this, I’ll be making this! To be honest, had …