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When I worked at a “Southwestern” restaurant in Madison, Wisconsin, we would sometimes offer these as a special.
If I remember correctly, we would call them New Mexican Enchiladas.
Instead of rolling the ingredients in the corn tortillas, you would build a stack.
Put down a sauced corn tortilla, add an ingredient, add another sauced tortilla, then an [...]

Apricot Cocktail (Dry)
(6 People)
Cut 2 Apricots (1 Apricot) in half, break the stones* and let the whole soak for 2 hours in a glass and a half of Cognac (2 oz Korbel VSOP Brandy). Add two teaspoonfuls of Peach Bitters (1 tsp. Fee’s Peach Bitters), 2 glasses of Gin (2 oz Beefeater’s Gin) and 2 [...]

Russian River Brewing makes some of my favorite beers. Pliny the Elder, Blind Pig IPA, Pliny the Younger, and others are among the best beers brewed in Northern California.
But, where they have set themselves apart are brewing Belgian Abbey style ales. For this type of beer, Russian River seems to capture more of [...]

We belong to the Beer Club at Plump Jack Wines.
It’s usually pretty fun, and it gets us to try beer we wouldn’t normally purchase.
But, obviously, some months are better than others. The fiasco that was the Sam Adams “Brewer Patriot Collection” springs to mind. Today, I was chatting away with the store manager [...]

The usual Mac and Cheese…
1 cup milk, 1 cup chicken stock. I only use two tablespoons each of butter and enough flour to make a stiff roux. Add the milk and stock to the roux. I add a bit of nutmeg and cayenne to my sauce and stir in a bunch of cheese. [...]

Apricot Cocktail
1/4 Lemon Juice. (1/2 oz Lemon Juice)
1/4 Orange Juice. (1/2 oz Orange Juice)
1/2 Apricot Brandy. (1/2 oz Vedrenne Liqueur de Abricot)
1 Dash Dry Gin. (Beefeater’s)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
I was afraid this mild proto-Fuzzy Navel would be too sweet. However, the lemon balances out the sweetness of the Apricot liqueur nicely and [...]

Approve Cocktail
3/4 Wineglass Rye or Canadian Club Whisky. (1 1/2 oz Sazerac Straight Rye)
2 Dashes Angostura Bitters.
2 Dashes Curacao. (1/2 teaspoon Brizard Curacao)
Shake (stir, please) well and strain into wineglass. Squeeze lemon and orange peel on top.
Oddly, when I look back at my notes for this one, I said I would have preferred a glass [...]

Check the post from yesterday for the whole recipe for Chicken, Okra, and Sausage Gumbo.

2 Medium Onions, Chopped
1 Large Bell Pepper, Chopped
3 Ribs Celery Chopped

5 Cloves Garlic, Minced

½ Pound Okra, sliced

2 Bay Leaves
1 tsp. Black Pepper, ground
1 tsp. White Pepper, ground
1 tsp. Cayenne Pepper
½ tsp. Sage
1 tsp. Thyme

2 Quarts Chicken Stock (I had cooked the [...]

Was reading Marcia Gagliardi’s local restaurant e-newsletter Tablehopper and noticed the following event:
Slow Beer Festival San Francisco
Date: Saturday, March 1st , 2008
Time: 12 noon to 4 PM
Location: County Fair Building - Golden Gate Park
Lincoln Way and 9th Avenue
San Francisco
Tickets: http://brownpapertickets.com/event/26113
Join us for a tasting and pairing of San Francisco’s craft beers with some of the [...]

Odd that I haven’t posted this on the blog, I get asked for it so often.
In any case, it is based on a Chicken and Sausage Gumbo recipe by Mr. Chuck Taggart over at the the Gumbo Pages. Be sure and check out his excellent blog, Looka! while you are over there.
Here’s a [...]