Sorry for no post today but I had a local draft and didn’t get time to post it. Last night a drunk driver hit a power pole by my house and now I am without power and without a post for today. To make matters worse I can’t leave my driveway to get ice to [...]
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June 7th, 2009
Food & Wine Festival At National Harbor
Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending Food and Wine Festival at National Harbor. It was a lot of fun. There was wine tasting, beer tasting, liquor tasting and food. Lots and lots of food. Plus, I got to hang out with Carla and Ariane from Top Chef Season 5. The National Harbor was the [...]
Posted in Cooking, Events, Things to do in DC 
Tags: BBQ, Beer, cheese, Food, food and wind festival, fun, national harbor, stella artois, Things to do in DC, wine 
5 Comments »June 6th, 2009
Ultimate Stuffed Brownies
I love a good brownie. A good brownie is moist and chewy. I hate cake brownies with frosting. If I wanted to eat cake, I would have gotten a piece of cake, not a brownie. So I have been working on my ultimate brownie recipe. There are two basic recipes for brownies. One using melted [...]
Posted in Brownies, Cooking, Recipes Tags: best brownie recipe, brownies, caramel, caramel brownies, carmel, chocolate, melted chocolate, Recipes, stuffed brownies, ultimate brownies, walnuts 4 Comments »May 29th, 2009
What to do this weekend in DC (May 29-31)
Every friday I pick the best culinary events in the DC area for my readers to enjoy. This weekend there are some great events to attend. Cochon 555 5 Chefs, 5 Pigs and 5 Winemakers. Each chef will prepare a 70 lb heritage pig from head to toe for judges and the crowd. In the [...]
May 18th, 2009
Championship Hot Wing Sauce
On Saturday I won the Wingtacular Hot Wing Competition with this recipe. It starts sweet and ends with heat. It also has that awesome hot wing color that many look for. I am lacking pictures of me making the sauce as, ok no excuses, I forgot to take pics. I have plenty of pics of [...]
May 16th, 2009
Wings on the Web
Today is the Wingtacular!!! Instead of debuting my sauce to the world giving the other competitors my recipe I am going to post some links to some great hot wing spots on the web. These websites include great wing recipes, stories and pictures. How to make hot wings step by step The hot sauce blog describes [...]
May 5th, 2009
Chicken Tacos with Homemade Tortillas
Happy Cinco de Mayo! In honor of today I wanted to make a classic mexican dish. At first I wanted to make steak tacos with homemade tortillas. But, it just so happened that everyone around me had the same idea. There wasn’t a single flank steak to be found within 10 miles. So I changed it [...]
May 4th, 2009
Recreating the bread bowl pasta
If you have been watching TV lately, Dominos has been advertising their new Bread Bowl Pasta. It is Carbs on Carbs, so basically it is amazing. So I wanted to make my own version to see how great pasta in a bread bowl could actually be. Spoiler Alert – It was amazing. The bread bowl [...]
Posted in Baking, Bread, Cooking, Italian, Pasta, Pizza, Sauces, Sourdough Tags: bread bowl, bread bowl pasta, carb overload, dominos, Food, Marinara, Pasta, pizza, recipe, Recipes 28 Comments »May 2nd, 2009
The Slapchop Remix
Nothing says saturday like Infomercials. This is quite possibly the funniest thing I have seen on youTube lately. The slap chop has its own remix and Vince is the man. You will love how they remake the unforgettable commercial.
April 27th, 2009
Grilling Tuna to Perfection
Grilling fish can be extremely hard. Many questions come to mind. Do I need a basket? Do I need to oil the grill or the fish? How do I season the fish? Do I cook it on high, medium or indirect heat? How long do I cook it for? I had all of these questions. [...]
Posted in Cooking, fish, tuna Tags: fish, grill, grilling fish, how long to grill tuna, how to, how to grill tuna, perfect tuna, Recipes, salad, tuna, tuna salad 3 Comments »April 26th, 2009
Mandu
Last week my friend Tom came over to share his family recipe for Mandu. What is Mandu you ask? Well it is a traditional Korean dumpling. They are served fried crisp and are absolutely delicious. Crispy and delicious
April 25th, 2009
Sourdough Pizza
Last week on friday I made a sour dough starter. After stirring it today I noticed it was ready to go. The first thing that came to mind was sour dough pizza. When I was in college there was a pizzaria by my house with the best sour dough pizza. After years of trying I [...]
April 23rd, 2009
Awesome Chocolate Chip Cookies
I have been on a quest for the best chocolate chip cookies for a while. After a while I have figured out the ingredients needed to make a really good cookie. You need to use both butter and shortening. If you use all butter your cookies come out flat and crunchy. If you use all [...]
Posted in Baking, Chocolate Chips, Cookies, Cooking, Recipes Tags: awesome cookies, Baking, chocolate, chocolate chip, Cookies, Cooking, howto, Recipes, vanilla, worlds best 2 Comments »
