Category: Food

I've lost track of how many undercooked Creme Brulees I've had. Too often they are soupy or like pudding. Properly cooked, it should be dense and your spoon or fork should leave a well defined mark in it. We had a wonderful Creme Brulee at Flemings this week. We were using up a $25 coupon on a few steaks and...

DH was not too hungry tonight so I took the opportunity to try a new Thai place. Thai has been my go-to for many years. Spicy, but not heavy like Indian, Mexican, or Italian. Not bland like sushi. And, has rice. What more can an Asian want. Chaba Thai is a tiny, tiny Claremont Mesa Dr eatery with a waiting...

Our very favorite Indian restaurant in San Diego is setting up a second location in Rancho Bernardo! Less than 5 miles from our house! Woooooo! What we love about CNM are their unique home recipes like Jal Fresi (Samantha and Megan's favorite) and Murg Awadi Korma (my favorite), and the classically executed Chicken Mahkni (DH's favorite). I also love their...

No eggs, dairy, butter. So what's left? Apparently just flour, sugar, and and fruit and veggie juices. And cellulose gum, lactic acid, and lecithin. The smell, texture, and taste are actually not that bad – it tastes much like a soft Chips Ahoy. I've had worse cookies. But they don't have that salty buttery goodness of real homemade cookies. So...

Cheap and disgusting, yet highly satisfying, English muffin pizzas are easy to make, and they’re family friendly too. We tried putting leftover bacon on a few. Sounded like a good idea, but nothing beats Boars Head pepperoni.  And any type of seasoned tomato sauce will do – this time we used a bolognese sauce, because that’s all that was available...

Last night, we put up Horin against another longtime favorite, Ozeki Karatamba “Dry Wave”. Horin is much heavier bodied whereas Karatamba is lighter and dryer (+7). Which is what we prefer. Karatamba is the winner! Just as with wine, every restaurant that has a cold sake list, has a very short one that changes frequently, so you can never expect...

Our favorite Sunday morning event is the Rancho Santa Fe Farmers Market. Open from 930 to 2, it is small but mighty. RSF has glammed up their farmers market with plenty of shaded seating and live music. No other outdoor market in San Diego has that.  They also have several outstanding vendors that we rely on for breakfast. Unfortunately I...

Red Moon is one of our favorites in the Kearny Mesa area. It’s a tiny family run place that doesn’t get a lot of press, but we love their dishes, always consistent.  We dashed down here with Megan’s family tonight for* Red Moon Beef – crispy, tangy, and sweet, almost beef jerky like* Ginger Fried Chicken – lightly breaded, tender...

If you’re at North County Fair and feel like some Pho, try Pholicious in the food court.  Delicious broth, nice and crunchy egg rolls filled with pork and shrimp (not filler rice noodles like some place), and smoothies (with or without boba).  A good choice.  And gets DD’s seal of approval.

Horin. The magnificent black beast. One of our most favorite cold sakes.  Kaina and Kelly turned us on to this one. They can buy it at their Costco in Hawaii! Just another reason they are so lucky live Hawaii.  We played And Thus Sprach Zarathustra from Youtube as we were opening the black monolith: A wonderfully balanced sake, not too...

http://www.eatinglv.com/2016/01/chow-time/#more-40160 While setting up Inoreader (RSS reader for Android) this weekend it led me to eatinglv.com which covers eating (my favorite pastime) in one of my favorite cities (Las Vegas). This is what vicarious eating is all about: “All of this [Mr Chows] finery came to a cool 200 samolians, upon which we heaped another $132 for wine. Add a $64...

It seems every time we go to Pegah’s, it rains. So our new plan to relieve the California drought is to go to Pegah’s as often as possible.  We love their huge portions and home cooking but it can be a bit noisy. Another great family run restaurant, much preferred to Dennys or Cocos. Dad remarked that there are hardly...