picked up food as a hobby in about 2003!
red robin. yummm.
Red Robin - Blue Ribbon Burger, no pink, no lettuce and tomato and swap the onion bun for sesame seed. My favorite.
We went last summer (?or fall?) to the Top Chef Tour and Richard Blais made ice cream in the Kitchenaid. He used smashed up dry ice and some basic type ice cream base he has made with cream and sugar. It had a slightly 'fizzy' quality if you got a tiny bit of the dry ice but other than that it did a pretty good job. You could give that a shot.
By the way, he made blue cheese ice cream - I didn't mind it, my husband less so. :) Lately, I've been dreaming of some sort of tequila margarita ice cream...maybe on on Memorial Day! Have fun.
When I was in college I dated someone from Evanston and we went to this place that had sort of subs, one I believe was called the 'Gloria'
Does anyone know what this place is?
Recently read Cooking for Mr Latte by Amanda Hesser and there is a chapter where she talks about bringing good food on the plane. It is definitely my new mo. I also remember having read about Gordon Ramsey's hampers to fly w/ http://www.gordonramsay.com/planefood/
fish taco's at illegal pete's in denver. home sweet home.
My grandma had a drawer of flour in her kitchen and I would always beg to make biscuits at her house. Mainly it was an excuse to play in the flour drawer. She had 27 grandkids and I cannot imagine the fingers that went into that drawer. She recently passed away and my aunt sent me photos of the flour drawer.
San Francisco/Napa/Sonoma if you are a wine and food type. I went last October and it was phenomenal.
I also went to New Orleans last year and didn't see as much as I would've liked and am jazzed to go back. The food is just so amazing.
My husband is immunosuppressed and we had to modify our carbonara per doctors orders. We use the egg beaters w/ yolk as it is out of shell and is pasteurized. It is a slightly less creamy effect but is definitely worthwhile if you are compromised.
All that said, unless you do have a weakened immune system I think you would be alright as we made it many many times before he was ordered not to when he was transplanted.
An updated Monte Cristo with homemade raspberry preserves
Parisi (really great upstairs lowcost italian) (parisidenver.com)
Trattoria Stella's in the Highlands - great seating outdoors and great specials, good for people watching - not to be confused with the coffee house...
Bang (modern southern - also in the Highlands) -need to go down the corridor to find it, the kitchen is on the street. (www.bangdenver.com)
Jerusalem (jerusalemrestaurant.com is great I agree, close to that is
Pete's University Cafe where they have monstrously good large Greek type home cooking (petesrestaurants.com)
close to Jerusalem is the original (tiny!) Chipotle and it is the best one even if it is chainified.
Enjoy Denver. I miss it. :)
My husband is immunosuppressed from a liver transplant. We had to modify our carbonara (w/ fairly good results) because if he gets salmonella we are in for many days in the hospital and many dollars towards the economic stimulus of someone other than ourselves.
We make Pasta alla Amatriciana with Rotel type tomatoes- you know the kind with tomatoes and chillies. Yummy.
well, I don't know how you would feel about a non-alcoholic option but we had limeade with fresh strawberries and strawberry syrup and it went over amazing!
It is strawberry season now in Plant City Florida and our local veg stand (equivalent) to a Farmers Market has nice ones. Funny thing here is that when it gets hot the markets go the way of snowbirds.
Sitting at a tiny topped table having gyros in Zaragoza Spain with a team of people I was working with. We had stopped after about 24 hours of travel. Exhausted and eating messy wraps one of the guys I was with grunts out, 'dese napkins sok' in his italian english because the napkins on the table were equivalent to single ply kleenex or tissue paper. I will always remember it.
not at all gourmet but tasty, filling and inexpensive...
bocadillos. Long thinnish baguette w/ different fillings.. jamon, tortilla, egg salad, lomo, etc.
Papas Fritas w/ Pimiento and Spicy Mayo
I'd also agree that the pastry is better than France as per Embackus comment.
The Cidrerias in San Sebastian serve amazing beef, bacalao, manchego, quince paste and walnuts.
My mouth is watering just thinking about it.
Maytag Blue Cheese.
Eat as locally as I can.
My husband has to have a low sodium diet and we find work arounds to gain flavor. I have found that I get used to the lower salt and now find foods merely salty rather than flavorful when we eat out or at others homes.
If you work around with fresh garlic and ginger and quality olive oil I bet you could make a fresh kind of satay that would lift his spirits.
Manchego Cheese w/ Grapes and Pecan Halves (I'm allergic to Walnuts)
I had seen Anne Burrell on TFN use it on her show - I sort of remembered that she had put it on steaks but then just checked the website and see she used it on chops.
I'm sure it's a bit late for this but we dredge shrimp (med shelled deveined) in corn starch and deep fry for about 2 or 3 minutes and then toss them in some mayo mixed with sweet thai chilli sauce and some sriracha to taste for bang bang shrimp. It's great and seems a bit impressive even though it's a snap.
Fresh sweet clementines.
We are on a quest to try new vegetables and the other night we made brocoli rabe. It was terribly bitter. Did I overcook it or is this the standard? We boiled it in water for a couple of minutes and then sauteed with olive oil, red pepper flakes and garlic. I would say it could have been the garlic but it was not burned. Does anyone know about this bitterness?
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I thought that for a while as well but am starting to find a few places here and there. Harmoni Market in College Park, Crabby Bill's in St Cloud (great people watching crab shack), Croissant Gourmet in Winter Park, Luma on Park Ave, and I have a list of places to try, Citrus, Hue, Graffiti Junktion. We kind of like Brick and Fire on Orange for Pizza - the dough is pretty good but it isn't foodie fare exactly. I think Orlando's coming around but do agree with you that most restaurants cater to tourists and passers through and things they could get at home. I recently started getting Orlando magazine and that has given me some good ideas. Check out magical dining month too. Happy hunting.