To me, the difference between a good place and a great place is how they handle the simple things. The traditional Vietnamese char-grilled pork sandwich (bahn mi), for example, is markedly simple. French roll buttered inside and stuffed with cucumber, carrot, and maybe some diakon mixed into a tangy slaw, sliced jalapeño, char-grilled pork, and [...]
Don’t get me wrong, I love the standard rotel-velvetta queso that dominates the queso landscape, but there are times when I want a queso that doesn’t come from a can and a box of cheese that is shelf stable. So I went on a search for queso recipes with fresh and perishable ingredients to fulfill [...]
Got some Starbuck’s Via Ready Brew for Christmas – the Starbuck’s venture into instant coffee that boasts a flavor as good as regular coffee. Cost comes to $1 per 8 oz cup, or roughly the same cost of their regular drip coffee. So, is it really as good as they boast?
Not so much.
It has a [...]
One of the great things about living near the Gulf is having access to quality seafood. This is both a blessing and a curse because if you have never had good seafood then you never really know what you’re missing. But if you’re like me and you’ve had it, then you just can’t go back [...]
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