by perfectlittlebites | Aug 1, 2014 | Assorted, Cooking, fish, Food, Gardening, health, Nutrition, Photography, Recipe, restaurant, seafood
I want to share my love for Maryland Blue Catfish. It’s an invasive fish, and more people should be cooking and eating it. A lot of people think of catfish as having a dirty, “muddy” taste, but I’ve never found this to be the case with this...
by perfectlittlebites | Jul 30, 2014 | Assorted, Cooking, Food, health, Nutrition, Photography, Recipe, restaurant
Yesterday I had the opportunity to head out onto the Chesapeake Bay on a chefs’ trip, led by Steve Vilnit. Steve is the Director of Fisheries Marketing at the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, and is doing a lot to help educate both chefs, and the...
by perfectlittlebites | Jul 27, 2014 | Assorted, Cooking, Food, Gardening, health, Nutrition, Photography, Recipe, restaurant
I like ribeye steaks. They have a lot of fat and a lot of flavor, and cooking individual steaks means that there’s a higher ratio of well-seasoned, nicely browned meat. But sometimes I want a nice slice of prime rib. It’s one of those things that people think of as...
by perfectlittlebites | Jul 25, 2014 | Assorted, BBQ, Cooking, Food, Gardening, health, MasterChef, Nutrition, Photography, pork, Recipe, restaurant
This week Certified Master Chef Richard Rosendale was in Baltimore doing a 2 day sous vide workshop at Stratford University. If you’re not familiar with chef Rosendale, he has been the executive chef of The Greenbrier, was the lead chef for the United States in the...
by perfectlittlebites | Jul 24, 2014 | Assorted, Beverage, Bourbon, Cocktail, Cooking, Dessert, Food, health, Nutrition, Photography, Recipe, vegetarian
I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not that patient, and kind of cheap. Over the past few months I’ve seen a few different recipes for quick-aged bourbon, but hadn’t tried it yet. It wasn’t until I read Craft Cocktails at Home that I...
by perfectlittlebites | Jul 13, 2014 | Chinese, Cooking, Food, Gardening, health, Nutrition, Photography, Recipe, restaurant, Sichuan, Spicy
Once we made the leap from tofu to chicken wings, it was a short hop to frog’s legs. The sauce recipe can be found here. I only wish we weren’t shorted scallions, so we used chives. It was still sticky, spicy deliciousness.
