Category Archives: Travel
Foodbuzz Fest | Foodies Celebrate Street Food
Foodbuzz brings together a great community of over 4,000 food bloggers who share a passion for food with their audiences and each other. They hosted 350 of their featured publishers to attend their second annual Foodbuzz Fest, a weekend of … Continue reading
Camino Chronicles: Arrival in Madrid
I always forget what an awful experience it is to fly overnight to Europe in coach. Don’t get me wrong, it’s worth every painful minute. Maybe it’s like childbirth, it is cramped, sleepless, lots of screaming happening all around you … Continue reading
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Tagged camino de santiago, jamon iberico, jamon serrano, madrid, pinchos
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Meritage Wine Dinner Featuring Luna Vineyards
Every year the Meritage Resort and Spa in Napa hosts a Wine Dinner with a multi-course menu created to compliment and highlight the wines from the featured winery, a different wine with each course. The featured winemaker was Luna Vineyards. … Continue reading
Foodbuzz 24×24: New New Orleans Classics, Recreated
I was thrilled to learn that my Foodbuzzz 24×24 proposal had been selected this month … and truly honored to be part of the group celebrating the richness of the Gulf Coast culinary history and scene. In addition to a … Continue reading
Posted in Food, New Orleans, Recipe, Restaurants
Tagged bananas, bananas foster, bayona, cajun spiced pecans, crescent city cooking, cucumber, duck, feta, jacques imos, lime daiquiri, palace cafe, pepper jelly, puff pastry, salad, smoked duck, susan spicer, tales of the cocktail, watermelon
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Restaurant Review: Jacques Imo’s (New Orleans)
Jacques Imo’s is one of my very favorite New Orleans restaurants. It reflects the city in so many ways … it is outrageous, the food is over the top sublime and it is always packed with people having a good … Continue reading
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Tagged austin leslie, fried chicken, jacque leonardi, jacques imos, New Orleans
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Bananas Foster
My favorite dessert in the entire world – bar none – is Bananas Foster. Being raised in New Orleans, it was something we were treated to on special occasions and I’ve always loved it. Of course, the Brennan restaurants in … Continue reading
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Tagged bananas, bananas foster, brennans, cooking up a storm, New Orleans, palace cafe
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Blackened Catfish with Tabasco Buerre Blanc
The inspiration for this dish came from a meal I had at Jacques Imo’s in New Orleans. They serve a blackened redfish with a chili crab hollandaise that is one of my favorite items on the menu. (for more about … Continue reading
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Tagged blackened catfish, buerre blanc, catfish, cooking up a storm, jacques imos, paul prudhomme, tabasco, tabasco buerre blanc, times picayune
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Arugula Salad with Watermelon, Cucumber and Feta
This is the kind of thing that sounds weird, but it is delicious. If you like putting salt on watermelon, you’ll love this salad. It’s bright and fresh and beautifully summery. The salad comes from Susan Spicer’s restaurant, Bayona and is … Continue reading
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Tagged bayona, cucumber, feta, New Orleans, salad, susan spicer, watermelon, watermelon cucumber feta salad
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Smoked Duck “PBJ” in Puff Pastry
One of Bayona‘s most well known dishes is an amazing Smoked Duck “PBJ” sandwich. I’ve adapted the recipe from Susan Spicer’s Crescent City Cooking. In this appetizer I’ve encased smoked duck breast, wilted red onions and homemade cashew peanut butter in … Continue reading
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Tagged bayona, cashew butter, crescent city cooking, ferry building, golden gate meat, pepper jelly, puff pastry, smoked duck, wilted onions
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