Tag Archive: food

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Sometimes exploring is about revisiting your tried and true favorites all at once. Expressing gratitude toward experience. Beef, gnocchi and veggie medley. How often do you combine all of your favorite foods onto… Continue reading

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Ever get bored of your grocer’s standard fruit selection? Move on to exotic fruit. From 12 o’clock, clockwise: Kiwano melon (orange, green) – Alien food! Has very little taste, but indulges eyes with… Continue reading

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Geoduck (pronounced gooey-duck) from Taylor Shellfish Farms in Seattle, WA. Massive, phallic clams served in sashimi form. Tasted slightly salty and was easy to bite through.

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Zesty garlic marinated beef sirloin from Wegmans – additionally rubbed in crushed red and black peppercorns, seared and baked. Tumbled butternut squash + yams – par-boiled, baked and pan-fried in clarified butter and… Continue reading

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Roasted asparagus tips – doused and baked in fresh tarragon, lemon juice and shallots Moroccan couscous – cooked in shallot broth and currants Moroccan-spiced lamb leg – rubbed with fresh garlic and a mixture of cumin, cardamom, allspice, black… Continue reading

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Buttery escargot, cajun-style crawfish, and oysters OH MY!

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Mediterranean dinner. Spicy hummus; food-processorized chick peas, tahini paste, olive oil, lemon juice, jalapeno peppers, cumin, coriander. Lebanese yogurt and feta cheese dip; blenderized greek yogurt and feta cheese, garnished with olive oil… Continue reading

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Shad (fish) roe to ring in the spring. Fried in butter and extra virgin olive oil, S&P, and garnished with parsley and lemon.  To read more about shad roe, see here, here, and… Continue reading

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Goose eggs for lazy Sunday brunch. Picked up 2 eggs from the Lancaster County Farmer’s Market in Wayne, PA, USA. The suckers were $4/each, 2-3x the size of a hen egg. See the… Continue reading

What serving food at a homeless shelter taught me

Last Friday, my friend, David, invited me to come with him to drop off leftovers from our 30-person dim sum dinner at a homeless shelter. That was my first time going to a… Continue reading