Cooking with Chocolate and Chef Jasper Mirabile

Long time readers of this blog have no doubt heard me talk about Chef Jasper Mirabile and his “Experiences”, masterfully prepared dinners highlighting one or more exquisite ingredients.  In the past, these dinners have ranged from the whole hog to limoncello to heriloom tomoatoes. Well, get ready, because he has three more great dinners planned…

Kansas City Restaurant Week… is finally here!  And I know what I said yesterday: that I was going to use Kansas City Restaurant Week to try places I’d never been before.  But…I just couldn’t resist.  I had to go back to 75th Street Brewery for another helping of their amazing duck confit salad. Which I…

Friends, readers, family, it’s time for A Mozzarella Experience Some of you have heard me talk about Jasper Mirabile’s Experiences: the whole hog Experience with it’s crazy guancile gelato (that’s basically bacon y’all) and the Limoncello Experience with sweet and refreshing limoncello cooked into breads, desserts, risotto, baked chicken, and even some of the best…

How to Boil Pasta By popular request, here is my treatise, my manifesto as it were, on the art of pasta boiling.  By the way, this post assumes dried pasta. Boiling (and making) fresh pasta is a wholly separate critter.

Looking for dinner for $11.50?  Well step right this way because today, we’re going to be feasting on: Cucumber Couscous Salad That’s right, my partner in the Nude & Eco-Cheap Cooking Initiative, the totally outstanding Shawna Coronado, gave me cucumber and when life gives you cucumber, you make salad.  (Or pickles I guess.)  I know…

So my Twitter frieds @geokaren and @cheryltan88 told me about this thing called #letslunch, which is where a bunch of food bloggers get together and talk about delicious lunch ideas.  This week’s topic: burgers or in my case, Spicy Pepper Cheeseburgers So, yeah, I’ve been watching a lot of Man vs. Food on the Travel…