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 [...]

 

Food Fight Radio – March 17th, 2013 – Part 1

This week on Food Fight Radio…

  • The Wonderful World of Salt!
  • Where to get and how to make the best ice cream shakes
  • What to do with leftovers
  • Marcus and Jeff try Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans

 

Dave the Vitamin Guy – Gallstones and Kidney Stones

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Gallstones and kidney stones.  They’re a pain in the…well never mind. There are four types of them. I’m Dave the Vitamin Guy and here’s what you need to know about kidney stones and how to prevent them.

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Food Fight Radio – March 10, 2013 – Part 2

In the second half of the show…

Food Fight Radio – March 10, 2013 – Part 1

In this week’s episode of Food Fight Radio…

  • Things you can schmear on other things
  • What the heck is molecular gastronomy?
  • International Women’s Day stuff
  • Why do bees only sting the vegans with allergies?

Claire-ification: Other People’s Homes

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Why would you ever ruin a perfectly good superficial relationship by going into someone’s home.  It’s like a client or work associate.  They’re pretty much normal, they’re professional, you’ve even had lunch with them and they seem fine.  You look forward to the possibilities, the after work drinks, the golf games, the bbqs and of course the referrals…

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