Cooking with Chocolate and Chef Jasper Mirabile

Yogi Peach DeTox: Good for the Body Part of my resolution since about 2009 has been to live more healthy.  It’s a resolution that I have struggled with for a number of reasons, but I am slowly starting to make small changes.  One of the places this has lead me is studying the medicinal values…

I wasn’t kidding when I said I was going to need to hit the gym.  Wow. Well, Kansas City Restaurant Week is two days old now and already I have had four memorable meals and one radio interview (check in a day or so for today’s show) where I discuss two of them. Quickly, I’d…

Limoncello [n]- Italian for awesome. No seriously, look it up. That’s why you gotta go to Jasper Mirabile’s Limoncello Experience What is limoncello you ask? I already told you! It’s awesome. It’s also something like the greatest lemonade in the world with some pretty darn good (and very, very strong) liquor swirled in. It’s a…

A while back I mentioned that Greensbury Market sent me some delicious chicken breasts and strip steaks.  In that earlier post, I gave a recipe for Naked Buffalo Strips (don’t worry, it’s family friendly) and talked about Greensbury Market’s mission of getting to know the people who produce the meat they sell and ensuring they are doing things…

The image to the right is before the lid goes on… Okay, welcome back to the caramelized onion and bacon show.  I know it’s taken a little time for me to get back to posting, sorry about that! First, a point of order.  I have the after picture of the spread in my camera.  However,…

Thanksgiving in the pinnacle of culinary holidays. For one day, it is every American’s duty to stuff themselves silly with all the food they can eat. There’s only one small problem: making Thanksgiving cooking can be stressful!  There’s so much to worry about: How can I keep the turkey moist? Do I baste? What are…