Craving chocolate? Looking to satisfy your cravings in less than 100 calories? Mrs. WellDone is!! (And me, too.) That’s why I’m glad ChuaoChocoholic found me and offered me a promise: sweet tooth satisfaction in 100 calories or less. I said prove it. She said she would…as long as I shared with me wife. I reluctantly agreed. So a […]
Author: Chris Perrin
A Question for Food Bloggers
The Lead Up I’ve been wrestling with a question for some time that arose from a lunch I had with a respected food editor in Kansas City. We were talking about food blogging and my lunch guest mentioned that she was a member of the Association of Food Journalists (AFJ), an association which provides services to food […]
Sustainable Eating #4: Why I Support #MeatlessMonday
2010 Continues! A lot of exciting things are supposed to happen this year. If Arthur C. Clarke is right, this is the year that Jupiter will turn into a sun thanks to Roy Schneider. We’re 2 years away from the Mayan (Aztec?) apocalypse. Yep, this is an exciting time to be alive! In all seriousness, while […]
#MeatlessMonday Spicy Chickpeas in Ancho Chili Sauce
From Camarones a la diabla comes Spicy Chickpeas in Ancho Chili Sauce So, first of all, happy #MeatlessMonday! Hopefully you are doing your part for the environment and for yourself today and are having one day where you go without meat. If so, good for you! If not, it’s never too late to get started! […]
Four Courses of Olive Press Olive Oil
Never one to turn down a challenge, when The Olive Press, an all-world olive oil store in Sonoma and Napa put out a challenge to several food bloggers to do four courses with four of their olive oils, guess who signed up? This guy. Guess who is going to win? This guy! (No offense, I come […]
In the Company of Greatness: An Evening with the Maestro
It’s kind of last minute, but I found out that Chef Michael Smith who, as luck would have it, is the head chef at Restaurant Michael Smith (funny how that happens) and the excellent Extra Virgin, is having a dinner with wine pairings featuring superstar Italian winemaker Antonio Sanguineti on Monday, March 1st. The festitivities for […]
Have Pig, Will Dinner (And Wine, too!)
Hey, like I said in my last post, Jasper’s Restaurant in Kansas City really is having a Slow Food Pork Demo and Dinner, which is proudly called from Snout to Tail (click on the link for the Google Calendar reminder.) I’m pretty excited about it. Scratch that, I really excited. Why? Well, I kind of […]
#MeatlessMonday Vegan Pork Albondigas with Match Meat and Red Gold Tomato Sauce
Because I can’t promote just one thing in a post, let’s do #MeatlessMonday Vegan Pork Albondigas with Match Meat and Red Gold Tomato Sauce Phew. That’s a mouthful. This post is like already like NASCAR car. It’s just covered in ads. Hrmm…let’s see how much worse I can make it. Anyway, this is the promised second […]
#MeatlessMonday Le Seuer Pea Pasta with Red Gold Tomoates
First of all, Chef Jasper, this recipe was not an attempt to copy your Pasta alla Nanni, though I’d be lying if I said that Le Seuer Pea Pasta with Red Gold Tomatoes didn’t take one of its ingredients for your famous pasta dish. But more on that in a minute. First thing’s first. Welcome […]
#MeatlessMonday Match Meat Pizza
Match Meat Pizza It’s another #MeatlessMonday!! But wait you say, it’s Thursday! That’s true, it is Thursday, but I’ve been pretty lax in my support of #MeatlessMonday the past few weeks and I wanted to get back in the swing of things. So all this week, we’re doing meatless recipes. (By the way, next week […]