France posts on Food in Mouth
If there’s one French food item that I think should be easy for most Asians to really love, it’s escargot. The reason is that escargot is kind of a texture dish, which you normally don’t see in French cooking. Snails don’t taste like much, I don’t think, but they are transformed into something awesome when you add butter, garlic, and parsley in the correct proportions. Just like how a Chinese guy might order some tripe at dim sum, it’s kind of the same thing. The item simply is a sauce delivery vehicle…. [Continue reading]
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December 30, 2014 at 7:18 am
Any time a city boy can wake up and chunk bread at willing sheep in the morning is a good morning. I mean that in the most literal sense. Steph’s parents have (from what I can see) two sheep next door. They were just hanging around and we gave them some bread and they ate it pretty hastily. Also they got scared before and after we gave them the bread. Scardy cats. Anyway, we followed that up with a lunch at a seafood restaurant that sat on the beach at St. Malo, France…. [Continue reading]
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December 28, 2014 at 7:16 pm
For the Christmas day lunch, we started with some toast and foie gras because we could. I actually eat as much foie gras as I can to spite animal rights nutsos. I think foie gras is the original meat butter. At Del Posto, they provide some lard when your bread comes, but nothing beats dead duck liver. Mmmm, McDonalds needs to get on that. Fast food liver. We paired the foie with some red currants. Mmmm, I’m loving it…. [Continue reading]
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December 27, 2014 at 7:58 pm
Twenty years ago when I was a youngin, if you were all like Starter Jacket or Sega, I would have said it’s an excellent Christmas. Now, if you show me a pile of food, I think it’s an excellent Christmas, especially if it’s spent in France! Expectations and enjoyment definitely have changed over time. It works out perfectly now that my adult holidays are usually filled with food. Christmas eve meal with Steph’s parents was special and abundant. We started with some oysters from Cancale. I wondered how they settled on the particular poissoneire, but when we arrived to pick up the oysters, it was easy to see because Cancale has many places that sell oysters, but this one had a line of fifteen or so that waited patiently…. [Continue reading]
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December 26, 2014 at 9:49 am
I’m fortunate enough to have been to France multiple times, and not many Americans can say that. So it’s easier for me to say that while the French are known for their culinary creations and traditions, it’s obvious to anyone that regular everyday folks eat junk food. They sell Cheetos in France. We were in the local supermarket so Steph and I picked a bag of store brand bacon snacks! Woo! French junk food y’all…. [Continue reading]
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December 25, 2014 at 5:58 pm
One of the things that is really new about being a parent is the little things that make you geek out and have a positive reaction. I can imagine this… [more]
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April 30, 2016 at 11:30 am 
After two months of being a parent, I can say that it doesn’t get any easier! The food blogging pretty much has stopped but it’s nice to take… [more]
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March 30, 2016 at 11:30 am 
I am a dad now! It’s only been about a month, and it’s as surreal to write that now was it was when my son first came into the world. Being… [more]
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February 29, 2016 at 2:27 am 
For the food loving couple that’s hobbled by the exclamation of, “I’m getting too old for this,” there’s some usefulness in food courts…. [more]
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January 10, 2016 at 1:12 am 
When the semester cycles to an end, my brain basically cannot fit everything all in, and that’s why the blog has really suffered. My plan for the… [more]
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December 31, 2015 at 8:39 pm