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: Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse

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Walking into Ruth’s Chris is about what you’d expect of a nice steakhouse, it’s dimly lit and full of dark wood furniture and deep dark romantic hallways.  You get lead down a corridor and you can faintly here the sizzle of the steaks as they arrive to people’s tables.  “That’s what I want, you say to yourself”.

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Was That You?: How to Make a Stinky Cheese Plate

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At this point in your life it is imperative that you have a trusted cheese man, someone at a good market you can go to who knows what you like and who can recommend things for your tastes.  A cheese man- if you don’t have one, get one!

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Food Fight Radio – February 24th, 2013 – Part 2

On the second half of this week’s episode…

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Food Fight Radio – February 24th, 2013 – Part 1

This week on Food Fight Radio!

  • When berries make you sick
  • How to get your kids to eat real food
  • Tiny turduckens for Easter dinner
  • Our interview with the one and only Dan Akroyd!

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Claire-ification: Room Service

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What happens to hotels where the service of bringing someone a sandwich and soda to their room becomes paramount to engineering a bridge or erecting a monument?

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