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Silkie Chicken

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Silkies are named for their silky fluffy white feathers, but they have black skin, black meat and black bones. Looks amazing on a dinner plate or in a soups, hot pots, stir fries, confit, anything that will highlight the chicken and not bury it.

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Restaurant Review: The Boiling Crab

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Folks, sometimes you’re in the mood for a bag of seafood.  Not a plateful of seafood, a bagful.. Trash bag to be exact.  The Boiling Crab restaurant has locations all up the California coast as well as Dallas and Houston in Texas so you can pretty much find them when you need them.

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Claire-ification: Living the American Dream

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So that mentality that we had when we were just a bunch of Colonials with pitchforks and we got mad and kicked the collective butts of those that were ordering us around and oppressing us?  Do you really want to admit that that mentality, that freedom thinking mindset, that strength is gone?

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Restaurant Review – Karl Strauss Brewery Gardens

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There are a few Karl Strauss locations in San Diego but my favorite is the location on Scranton Rd. in Sorrento Valley.  This place has a cool wooden bridge deck area with fountains and a giant serene coy pond that will calm you down after the most evil day.  They have awesome specials on tap for every taste ranging from a banana scented hefeweissen to dark bitter types that only die hards can stand.  Read more »

Restaurant Review: Yoshino

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So Yoshino is a little brick restaurant in a bland looking building that you’d never spot if you weren’t looking for it.  And they’ve had a dirty banner up for years advertising their sushi so at first glance it’s a bit scary- that is if you’re easily scared by food.  Read more »