Fried rice falls into the "Grandma food" category -- aka dishes that came from my Grandma that you have no hope of ever getting an actual, exact written recipe. It's not a new phenomenon - every family seems to have a dish that you can't pinpoint why it comes out so wonderfully when your [INSERT…
Thanks to Alton Brown, I just learned that corned beef and cabbage actually has nothing to do with the Irish from Ireland and is more likely an Irish-American invented dish borrowed from Jewish Americans...hence how NY delis turn out tasty corned beef on rye that few others can match.
Anyway, the big question about corned beef…
Every March the Russian River Wine Road puts on its annual barrel tasting event where you can throw down $10 and get in two days of barrel tasting at a huge number of Sonoma wineries. We've found some great wines through barrel tasting -- like Armida's Keefer Ranch Chardonnay and Dutcher Crossing's Nevins Cab. But…
In the last few weeks huckleberries have been popping up on menus everywhere I look...we had the wild huckleberry bread pudding at Coco500 (with caramel sauce - to die for!), the pear baba at Village Pub also had huckleberries and the tart tatin at Piacere in San Carlos was garnished with 2-3 huckleberries. I'm not…
Maybe I should just start calling this the Saturday Waffle...
At long last, signs of life are final starting to emerge after a winter that seems to go on forever and ever. I shouldn't complain - Denver has had a hell of a winter and so have folks back East -- just ask Jet Blue. The…
Daily Waffle was hit with a seemingly unrecoverable error on its former host server. So after 6 months I finally said screw this and we went back to Blogger. Are you ready for a montage?!
It seems to have become chic to just be over Valentine's Day. Whether you protest it as a consumerist holiday perpetuated by the greeting card/candy/flower companies or you just think it's ridiculous to hand over your first born for a 4-course prix fixe meal that you have to choke down in 40 minutes so the…
Last weekend some friends were in town from Denver, which gave us a good excuse to spend the day eating and drinking. We kicked off the day with brunch/lunch at the Half Moon Bay Inn and Kitchen. The place was empty when we walked in at 11:15, but by 11:45 it was full up.
The burger's…
>I don't know what those guys at California Pizza Kitchen know about Thai Chicken Pizza that I don't, but I'm convinced it's all in the sauce. I took a shot at basically recreating their Thai Chicken Pizza -- whole wheat crust from Trader Joe's using this sauce recipe as a guide, and then topping…