Chunks of tender, spiced pork, braced with sliced pickled jalapenos on a crusty, griddled bun - muy sabroso.
After all that driving around and lame tourist cheesesteak, the best sandwich of my trip was from a little counter in the back of a Mexican grocery, two blocks from Sean’s house.
Jalisco Mexican Grocery (1722 W. Gilpin Dr., [...]
Neon so over-the-top, it’s almost like they have to compensate for something.
My college buddy Sean was turning 40, down in Wilmington, Del., and I couldn’t miss the wake, er, festivities.
So I made some pork souvlaki and froze it in a quart Ziploc, making it easy to transport in a cooler without worrying about food safety [...]
Blueberries so plump they threaten to burst, and first-class organic yogurt from a dairy whose cows have names. No high-fructose corn syrup needed.
In Syracuse a few weeks ago, Kathy took me to the farmer’s market located not far from the Galleria Mall. Its breadth and depth surprised me, and made me realize I don’t know [...]
Crunchy, tasty offerings surround the main event of chicken, egg and coconut rice.
Before the summer’s over, I wanted to share the last two dishes of the mindbending meal I shared with my friend Bud at Fatty Crab.
The third dish was Bud’s choice: Nasi lemak, rice cooked with coconut milk. It’s sometimes called Malaysia’s national dish, [...]
One way to counterattack overabundant zucchini is to fire up the grill
Kevin Purdy, a journalist working in Niagara County, wrote the following post.
I found 101 Cookbooks about two years ago, while I was desperately searching online for a way to make an interesting dish out of quinoa, a grain my wife adores and I thought [...]
The red smoke ring is there around the Dinosaur’s brisket, but its loose texture and lack of flavor intensity makes me wonder if there’s steaming involved.
A couple weeks ago I was in Syracuse for the weekend. As is so often the case, that meant I spent part of the weekend at the Dinosaur.
For most of [...]
This dish deserved better than a plastic fork.
My mission to find the most praiseworthy Chinese dishes in Western New York continues.
Today, a few words about the dong po pork at Gin Gin.
Dong po pork is pork belly braised in a five-spice broth, then chopped and stir-fried with big black (formerly dried) mushrooms. It goes for [...]
If you look at the scrape underneath the rosemary sprig, you can see the skins of new potatoes detach easily.
Here’s a recipe guaranteed to allow anyone - even the truly kitchen-phobic - to turn out a stunning dish.
There is only one step of any difficulty. It is the first: Get new potatoes. That means potatoes [...]
