Entries from July 2008

July 31, 2008

Munchie box, Glasgow, Scotland: A wee bite after lagers

Munchie box gold, including tandoori chicken, doner kebab meat, pakora, fries and saladish mulch. (Photo by Flickr user surrealist303.)

As a group, Buffalo eaters don’t flinch from meals that take on aspects of a caloric cage match. Watch four husky fellows pillage a steaming bucket of Duff’s hot wings, and you find yourself making sure to [...]

July 22, 2008

Panaro’s, a Buffalo N.Y. restaurant that gets more than red sauce right

Even the cannoli was done right, filled with sweetened ricotta only after ordering.
Braciole is a special-occasion dish in Italian-American households, the sort of dinner centerpiece you might see on a birthday or anniversary. That’s partly because of the amount of kitchen labor it requires.
Recipes usually call for pounding out beef round or a similar cut, [...]

July 13, 2008

Taste of Buffalo 2008: Finger food fiesta

A bit too much roll, but Fiamma’s Tenderloin Slider with herbed ricotta, sun-dried tomatoes and arugula was a great introduction from a first-time server.
Kevin Purdy is an associate editor at Lifehacker and freelance writer.
For 363 days of each year, Buffalo’s street food options–the kind of stuff you can eat while walking, talking, or, for the [...]

July 10, 2008

Recipe: Chicken sate, Indonesian style – Hit me with your chicken stick

Savory glaze, exotic spicing, but no spicy-ness to speak of.
Turns out that chicken sate I’d gotten to know on Thai menus is only one of a sate galaxy. Across Asia, people are marinating chicken with whatever’s handy and throwing it on a fire.

Here’s a simple but satisfying entrant from Indonesia, distinguished by its use of [...]

July 3, 2008

Recipe: Strawberry shortcake – Celebrate the season

This specimen was made with chewy California berries – the real thing ought to be even juicier.
Just once this season, treat yourself and the people you love – or just yourself, if you’re real ornery – to real strawberry shortcake with whipped cream.
The biscuits that this recipe makes are worlds better than the yellow spongy [...]