Food Reviews

Jamie’s Italian Restaurant in Leeds: Appetizer Review

Jamie's Italian Restaurant Sign in Leeds

I can count on less than one hand the number of restaurants owned and operated by famous television chefs I have eaten at in my lifetime. There was Nola’s by Emeril Lagasse 1998 and…I am thinking, thinking, well Jamie’s Italian in 2012. I think that I have made it clear that I am not a …

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Be Your Own Butcher, How to Cut and Package a Rib Eye Steak Primal

Stack of Hand Cut Rib Eye Steaks

In my opinion, a Rib Eye is the best steak. Sure, there are more than a couple dozen of cuts of beef available from the nine to thirteen primary cuts (primal) in the United States and Canada with a new cut of beef being marketed every few years; i.e. Flat Iron Steak. However, when I …

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Las Chabela’s Chilis Gueritos con Camarone

Google Translate provides the following translation from Spanish to English of “gueritos” to mean “little white boy”. Personally I think this is humorous. The dish that I have been recently ordering at Las Chabelas in Brawley, CA is Chilis Gueritos con Camarone (White Chiles with Shrimp). Guerito Chilis, also known as Guero or Santa Fe …

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Reuben Sandwich Review – Blue Hereford Restaurant (Ford, KS)

Blue Hereford Restaurant Road Sign in Ford Kansas

Among the fields and pastures of southwest Kansas, there are small towns distanced 10 to 20 miles from one another. It is these towns that remind of a time when things were simpler, slower and less complicated that you find local restaurant that serve as a local focal point for the community and may even …

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Smokehoss Reuben Sandwich Review (Meade, KS)

Reuben Sandwich from the Smokehoss

With much time spent driving on the road after arriving at an airport, I am always on the looking for unique restaurants, coffee shops and regional specialties. Little did I know once I finally stopped at the Smokehoss: Jerky – Coffee – Bistro that I had found diamond among the prairies, ranches, farmland and small …

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