King Cakes are a vital part of history of the New Orleans Mardi Gras tradition. The King Cake is baked with a small plastic baby hidden inside, the person who gets the slice with baby in it has to host the next party. Make sure to buy a new small plastic baby so you can [...]
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Recipe: Mardi Gras King Cake
Posted in baking, Baking and pastry, cakes, chefs, cooking, cooking classes tampa, food, food blogs, food pics, foodies, French cooking, fun food, gourmet food pictures, guilty pleasures, king cake recipe, mardi gras, miami chefs, new orleans, personal chef tampa, personal chefs, random, recipes, strange food combinations, tampa caterer, tampa catering, tagged baking, baking bad, baking recipes, Cake, cooking, Dough, Flour, food blogs, Home, King cake, Mardi Gras, mardi gras king cake, mardi gras tradition, New Orleans, new orleans mardi gras, orleans mardi gras, recipes, Sugar on February 19, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Recipe: Gulf Shrimp Ceviche
Posted in ceviche, chefs, close up food, cooking, cooking classes tampa, couples cooking classes, food, food blogs, food pics, food pictures, foodies, fun food, haute cuisine, healthy cooking classes tampa, personal chef tampa, random, recipes, seafood, tampa, tampa caterer, tampa catering, Tampa cooking classes, Uncategorized, tagged Ceviche, chef, chefs, Chicago, conch ceviche, Cook, cooking, cuban ropa vieja, culinary genius, ethnic dishes, Florida, Frontera Grill, Home, Key West Florida, lime, Mexico, Mexico One Plate At A Time, norman van aken, Olive oil, ox tail stew, Oxtail, recipes, Rick Bayless, Shrimp, Tortilla chip, Tostada on February 8, 2012 | 2 Comments »
As a young man growing up in Key West Florida, I was exposed to a variety of fantastically flavorful ethnic dishes from an early age. Dishes that I would, over the years, constantly try to recreate or infuse into new ideas. South Florida in general is home to a diverse multi-cultural landscape of people, rich in tradition and [...]
Things you should probably never, ever eat vol. 1
Posted in chefs, cooking, food, food blogs, foodies, fun food, random, reviews, strange food combinations, Uncategorized, tagged Bean, bizarre foods, chef comedy, chef humor, Cook, cooking humor, fermented soybeans, funny chef stuff, Home, Japan, Michael Jackson, Nattō, Soybean, strange foods, weird foods on February 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Natto I recently came across a container of fermented soybeans in the supermarket. I don’t mean an old container of soybeans some stock-boy forgot to toss. These are fermented-on-purpose soybeans from Japan. That’s what Natto is. I remembered hearing about this stuff on Iron Chef one time when it was the secret ingredient. The judges [...]











