Chicken Pot Pie
A rotisserie chicken is a perfect starting place for a pot pie if you don’t have leftover chicken already in your fridge. Continue reading Chicken Pot Pie
Category: Food Memories
Dining with Reservations
We will try eating outdoors at our favorite places as long as comfortable temperatures allow and order delivery and take out to support local restaurants as much as we can. We will not order food through third party apps like Uber Eats, DoorDash, etc. Continue reading Dining with Reservations
One Gallon of Mayonnaise
Inferior condiments like ketchup and ranch dressing lined the edges of the field of view or disappeared into the deep recesses of the fridge while the Duke’s jar asserted its dominance at the center. It was only a 32-ounce jar, but it formed a culinary axis mundi connecting her with the divine. Continue reading One Gallon of Mayonnaise
Remembering Dad, Family and Vanilla Muffins
As I sifted the flour, baking powder and salt and beat the eggs, sugar and vanilla extract together, I thought about a mother making muffins for her young son who would grow up to become a man, an airman in the Air Force, a husband, an attorney, a father of three boys, a scoutmaster, and a grandfather. Continue reading Remembering Dad, Family and Vanilla Muffins
A Review of Peking Garden in Hong Kong
We chose Peking Garden, one of Maxim’s Chinese Cuisine’s longest-standing among its many provincial themed restaurants that serves authentic Peking cuisine Continue reading A Review of Peking Garden in Hong Kong
Celebrating Chinese New Year with Family and Homemade Dumplings
Northern Chinese families celebrate the new year reunion dinner by making dumplings together. Continue reading Celebrating Chinese New Year with Family and Homemade Dumplings
Mission Impossible?
Can scientists manufacture sustainable meat in a laboratory? Continue reading Mission Impossible?
Recipe Reconstruction: Collard Green Melt
The Collard Green Melt is a vegetarian interpretation of a Reuben Sandwich. Continue reading Recipe Reconstruction: Collard Green Melt
Beginning something new with Alinea
Dining at Alinea stimulates all of the senses (taste, touch, scent, sight, and sound) and explores elements of earth, wind, water and fire. Continue reading Beginning something new with Alinea
Taste Testing the Great Depression?
A peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwich tastes like a tangy peanut butter sandwich. Continue reading Taste Testing the Great Depression?
Place at the Table 