Since today is New Years Eve I wanted to do a little Champagne Taste Test. I like to drink a lot of champagne, so I like to go with quantity, thus all of the bottles are less than $15. But, price does not always mean quality.
Archive for December, 2009
December 30th, 2009
Garlic Bread Revisited
I know I usually have drink recipes on Wednesdays, but this week I decided to make a special drink post on New Years Eve. Thus, today I decided to post one of my favorite sides. Garlic Bread. I love garlic bread. I like it crispy, crunchy and extremely garlicky. Basically I like it so garlicky [...]
Posted in Baking, Bread, Garlic, Recipes 
Tags: best garlic bread, garlic bread, garlic cheese bread 
No Comments »December 29th, 2009
Chicken Nachos
I love nachos!!! Yep, three exclamation points. Besides being delicious they are quick and easy to make. Take a few tortillas, cover with your favorite ingredients, and then coat with cheese. Melt and serve. Howe easy can that be. My favorite type of Nachos are Chicken Nachos. Top with some sour cream and you [...]
Posted in Appetizers, Chicken, Mexican, Recipes Tags: Chicken, chicken nachos, Mexican, nachos 2 Comments »December 28th, 2009
City Chicken
When I was growing up my Grandma Donna used to make us City Chicken. It was always the best meal of the year. This year we decided to make City Chicken for our Christmas meal. What is City Chicken you ask? Well it is a combination of meat on a stick that appears to look [...]
December 27th, 2009
Cheese Bread
Last year I went to a little diner in New Jersey called Mastoris. They had this amazing cheese bread that I loved. I wanted to recreate it, but unlike a standard cheese danish this had a bread-like texture. It was more bread than danish. So after a little searching online, I think I found the [...]
Posted in Baking, Bread, Recipes Tags: cheese bread, cream cheese bread, mastoris cheese bread No Comments »December 25th, 2009
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas from Savory Reviews. Tucker and I are going to take a break today to celebrate Christmas. For all of you faithful readers, we have a nice little Christmas card for you. Tucker really didn’t mind the antlers, which I thought was weird. Well, Anything goes with Tucker. We wish you and your families [...]
Posted in Uncategorized Tags: christmas card, merry christmas, savory reviews, Tucker with Santa 5 Comments »December 24th, 2009
Homemade Chocolate Fudge
I am continuing with Holiday Appetizer Week. This time we are changing things up a bit. When it comes to bite size food, people usually forget about dessert. Granted most desserts are finger food, but not many are bite size. So I decided to make little bite sized squares of fudge. Fudge is the perfect [...]
Posted in Appetizers, Dessert, Recipes Tags: chocolate, chocolate fudge, dessert, fudge with nuts, homemade fudge, perfect treat for santa No Comments »December 23rd, 2009
Homemade Egg Nog
There is no drink that is more in the holiday spirit than egg nog. Today I am going to be making it from scratch. I know you can pick up the pre-made stuff from 7-11 to the pharmacy, but this stuff is 100 times better. I have only had the pre-packaged egg nog till today [...]
Posted in Cocktails Tags: bourbon, egg nog, egg nog from scratch, holiday cocktails, homemade egg nog 2 Comments »December 22nd, 2009
Mini Beef Wellington
I am continuing with Holiday Appetizer Week. With all of the snow in DC, Tucker and I have been cooped up in the house. So, I wanted something warm and delicious to eat. Nothing says warm and delicious like Beef. When I used to work as a caterer we served mini beef wellingtons as an [...]
Posted in Appetizers Tags: Appetizers, beef wellington, mini beef wellington, puff pastry, Tenderloin 2 Comments »December 21st, 2009
Bacon Wrapped Pineapple
Around the holidays my family usually gets together for dinner, but before we eat we usually have appetizers. So this week I wanted to showcase some great appetizers. Today is the simplest appetizer of all. It just happens that it might be the most delicious too. These lasted about 2 minutes. Yep, they are good.
Posted in Appetizers Tags: Appetizers, bacon, bacon wrapped pineapple, easy appetizers, pineapple 3 Comments »December 20th, 2009
Bottling Beer
Back in October I brewed beer with a couple friends at Shenandoah Brewery. Here is the link. Last week before the giant blizzard we went back to bottle it. It was a pretty simple procedure taking about an hour and a half for 120 bottles. In the end we ended up with a fine product. [...]
Posted in Beer Tags: brew your own beer brewery, brewery, hellesfest, homemade beer, oktoberfest beer, shenandoah brewery 1 Comment »December 19th, 2009
DC Weather
So I was going to cook yesterday to make a nice post for today, but the lines at the grocery store were 50 people long. Why you ask, supposedly there was going to be a big winter storm rolling through. So I put my groceries back and decided to risk it. I did not want [...]
Posted in Best Of..., Uncategorized Tags: dc, snow, snow in dc, Virginia snow removal guidelines 2 Comments »December 18th, 2009
Make your reservations now. Restaurant Week.
It is that time of the year again. DC Winter Restaurant Week. Here is the gist of it. Restaurant Week consists of the best DC area restaurants offering a 3 course prix fixe meal for $20.10 for lunch and $30.10 for dinner. Restaurant week is from January 11-17, 2010. So making a reservation at your [...]
September 2, 2010 (12:24) Homemade Hashbrowns I love crispy edged hash browns but have had trouble making them consistently. Great tip on getting the starch out!
August 30, 2010 (11:40) Homemade Hashbrowns Waffle House hash browns have nothing on these suckers. Delish.
August 30, 2010 (9:12) Homemade Hashbrowns YES. Excellent man. Nothing like a good hash brown.
August 29, 2010 (8:13) Grilled Chicken over Cellantani Pesto Chris - It is totally time to start using up that fresh basil. If you can move it into the house. That basil is good all year.
August 27, 2010 (10:49) Grilled Chicken over Cellantani Pesto Fresh basil is the best. It's getting that time of year that I need to start using up our basil plants, they have been productive this year.