Well, since the Year of the Monkey started on February 8, why not use the mystery ingredients from episode 5’s second round (frozen sausage patties, Long Island Ice Tea, heirloom carrots and figs) to make dumplings? Not too hard to think of something, right? And to make it more main course-like, it can be served […]
The mystery basket ingredients for the appetizer round of episode 18 wasn’t all that difficult if one is very creative. They were: hot chocolate, cooked oxtail, harissa and black plums. With hot chocolate as one of the ingredients, the first thing that popped in my mind when I was watching was a mole sauce. Since […]
If you recall, a while back, I wrote about dining at Scarpetta in Vegas, located at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Another restaurant in the same hotel is China Poblano, which features Chinese-Mexican fusion. This unusual version of fusion is only the second of its kind I’ve been to – the other one was Sidedoor in Ottawa, […]
