Silkie Chicken

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 [...]

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Restaurant Review: The Boiling Crab

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 [...]

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Claire-ification: Living the American Dream

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 [...]

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Restaurant Review – Karl Strauss Brewery Gardens

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 [...]

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Restaurant Review: Yoshino

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 [...]

 

Restaurant Review: Taste of Thai

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We visited the Del Mar Taste of Thai location in San Diego and looking at the menu, you see some things you recognize and then some things you don’t.  You’ve seen meekrob before but have you ever really tried it?  It’s unique.  Its crispy fried plasticky looking noodles with a sweet and sour sauce, very tasty.

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Claire-ification: Berries and Chocolate Desserts

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I don’t understand why chocolate desserts should include raspberries or other minds of annoying berries with the pesky seeds or the odd tart flavor that always seems to conflict with the sweet enveloping awesomeness that is a well done chocolate dessert.  Intrusions of that type spoil the dessert.  Leave the chocolate alone, it was doing fine by itself.

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Claire-ification: Las Vegas

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A couple things about Las Vegas…

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Restaurant Review: The Palms

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On a recent mid-week trip to Las Vegas, we made plans to stop at a landmark restaurant: The Palms.

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Food Fight Radio – March 17th, 2013 – Part 2

On the second half of this week’s episode of Food Fight Radio…

  • “Farm to Everything”
  • Homemade aioli: Worth it or waste of time?
  • GMO’s and Fertility
  • Restaurant Review: Palm Restaurant: San Diego and Las Vegas
  • Claire-ification: Las Vegas