I will be in Vegas next weekend and have reservation for Bouchon at the Venetian. Any recommendations for buffets? I hear the Bellagio has a good one. Also, we won't have a car but is there any recommendations for non-hotel places to eat? Local favorites or just good reasonably priced food? Thanks a lot.
My local D'Agostinos makes excellent rotisserie chicken - very juicy and tasty. I agree, you have to go when it's peak shopping times - they'll have every row of the oven filled up with birds and they can't cook it fast enough for the customers waiting on line at the deli counter to snap them up as soon as the timer goes off and the ladies take them off the rods and pack them in the containers. I notice during non-peak hours there might be just 2 or 3 dried looking birds spinning around. They make really good Italian and Spanish spiced ones also. And with my Dag points I can get a whole cooked chicken that will last at least two meals for less than 5 bucks!
It is gorgeous! I hope it comes out in the market some time.
mmmmmmmmm, longan.........
I have never used grapeseed oil and probably never will have use for it but I am soooo getting that!!!
That's about the cutest gross thing I have ever seen.
I like my thck cut bacon to be crispy along the edges while the middle is cooked through to a beautiful browned shade.
Del Frisco's New York - if you have the money to splurge then this is the place to get your steak. I start with the fried oysters and the mountain of onion rings to accompany a couple of cocktails. The rib eye with the skillet potatoes and onions, sauteed mushrooms and spinach sides get washed down with Jordan Cabernet Sauvignon for dinner. The meat is juicy and the portions are huge. By the end of the meal I'm always so stuffed I never get to dessert.
I agree, I will be in Florence and Siena in September also and love The Food Lover's Guide to Florence. She also has a blog now and there are some updates to the book on it. It's worth getting if you will be in the Florence area for a bit.
I am a Costco chix fan. I make chicken salad, quesadillas, pasta salad with chicken, and sesame chicken salad wraps. It is all good and those chickens are very good. Price went up recently to 5.99 (up a dollar) but they still are good and cheap for chix.
fuuchan: I'm with you! There's a whole wide world of fruit that have been ignored by chefs for too long... But I'm thinking that maybe it's because bottled lychee essences and syrups are readily available in bakery stores, but I've yet to see a longan equivalent for people who can't get hold of the fresh fruit?
On a tangent, another fruit -- the Japanese yuzu -- is everywhere, yet I see no trace of the fragrant kumquat! I was in Hong Kong this week and tried the most amazing kumquat pastries and jellies. I can only hope I'll be seeing it on menus soon...
@Southern_bella - eggs ack ry! (hiccup)
@Perky, that explains why cops always try to take your brown paper bag, to protect you and your vintage? Then the slip of paper they give you, asking for your presence in a friendly court room on such and such a date, is to simply retrieve your wine, they've kept it in storage and will release it to you for a "corking" fee.
aka "open container law and public intoxication fine" :P
@Southern_Bella - that's the beauty of the brown paper bag, see? Most people would assume it's a vintage very expensive wine that I don't want want stolen, don't care to share, and don't want to appear like a wine snob. At least I think that's what they'd think seeing me drink out of a brown paper bag, don't you? Does Boone's Farm fit that category???? ;-D
Agh!! Finally...the lychee's shadowed cousin gets some attention!
There's lychee martinis, lychee sorbet, lychee lychee lychee on haut menus all over, but the lowly longan...no attention. Until now!
Seriously, this fruit is what I wait for summers for. Screw lychee, bring on the longan.
And I was just plotting a blog post about longan season being upon us, too!
johnnytakes5: They call small seeds in lychees "chicken tongues"... I wonder if the same applies to small-seeded longans?
White on Rice Couple: I LOVE jackfruit! I've been trying to get a pic of the massive green fruit -- in its entirety -- for SE. And I'd love to have neighbors like you and your dad ;)
We are totally indulging in longans right now, along with lychees, mangosteens and jackfruit.
There's an ongoing battle between my dad and I. He has a longan tree, I have a lychee tree and we are always debating over which one is better.
I actually like both very much, but since I only have room for one tree, it's fun to take the lychee side! Food fights are awesome!
My mum and dad both have green thumbs but have never been able to get one of these these trees to bear fruit.. Growing up, it was always a treat when they brought home a box of fresh longans from the local asian supermarket.. The ones with the small seeds were the best!
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