I am a New York Yankees fan and have been since 1970. And I don’t have a next favorite team; it’s all or nothing with me. However, I do have a few teams upon which I wish catastrophes, or at least a demotion to AAA baseball, and one of those teams is Continue reading “Boston, Barbara Lynch and The Red Sox (Part 1)”
Riverside Pizza: The Best Crab Cakes Anywhere!
It’s a pizzeria. Nothing special. There are about 1,000,000 of these all over the country. And, to be honest, I have no idea if their pizza is even edible. It doesn’t matter, because I will never order it. But…their crab cakes are the best I have ever eaten, and I eat a lot of crab cakes. My wife loves them, but has the appetite of a small bird, Continue reading “Riverside Pizza: The Best Crab Cakes Anywhere!”
Rillettes: Not Just For Breakfast!
Wander into a charcuterie anywhere in France and you will see a dizzying variety of meat concoctions of various consistencies, generally known as pâté, made from an equally confusing selection of animal parts. Some are elegant, expensive, and intended for special occasions. A few are great looking but vile, Continue reading “Rillettes: Not Just For Breakfast!”
A New Restaurant For Ho-Ho-Kus
The restaurant scene in my neck of the woods can’t even be described as bad; it’s more like a wasteland, reminiscent of The Road Warrior. We aren’t served dog food from a can when we go out to eat, but most local restaurants’ output is just semantically different Continue reading “A New Restaurant For Ho-Ho-Kus”
As Simple As It Gets: Burgers!
My life has recently been hectic in a way that kept me out of the kitchen; in part because there were occasionally no other diners besides me (and I have awful manners and wouldn’t want to eat with myself. Pace, Lucullus), and in part because I haven’t Continue reading “As Simple As It Gets: Burgers!”
Smoked Pork Butt
There isn’t much to say about this topic that hasn’t been said thousands of times by amateur and professional smokers across the country. But that never stopped me; I am nothing if not a pontificator. Continue reading “Smoked Pork Butt”
Cold Weather Cocktails
Everyone knows what’s on the list of summer drinks. Beer, G&Ts, rum punch, the classic margarita, even an ice-cold martini on a hot night is appropriately included on that list. But what to do when the days grow short and there is a nip in the air, Continue reading “Cold Weather Cocktails”
Acorn Squash Is Good!
Tommy, of tommy:eats, and I were commiserating about the particularly hard and speedy acorns of this fall season. For some reason, perhaps there is a cabal of squirrels throwing them, the acorns seem to be hitting our homes and cars with unreasonable violence. Continue reading “Acorn Squash Is Good!”
Bistro 55 — Rochelle Park, New Jersey (Or, Tommy, You Ignorant Slut!)
Tommy, of the justifiably well-known local food blog, tommy:eats, has become unhinged and is currently raving about a new local restaurant that, if it fixes its many flaws, very well may be the local equivalent of Blue Smoke or the late, much-lamented Continue reading “Bistro 55 — Rochelle Park, New Jersey (Or, Tommy, You Ignorant Slut!)”
A Local Food Drive: Sunday, October 4th
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