by perfectlittlebites | Sep 18, 2014 | Alcohol, Baking, BBQ, Beverage, Bourbon, Cocktail, Cooking, Food, Gardening, health, Photography, Recipe
Corn on the Cob Bourbon, Corn Husk Syrup & The Street Corn Sour If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you might have seen my original post on Corn on the Cob Bourbon, ISI Infusions and Fat Washing from 2012. This summer, I started talking with Jed...
by perfectlittlebites | Sep 8, 2014 | Assorted, Cooking, Deli, Food, Gardening, health, Jewish, Nutrition, Photography, Recipe, restaurant, Spicy
Always the bridesmaid, chopped liver is an under appreciated dish. I’m not Jewish, and didn’t grow up eating it, yet it’s something I crave deeply. A decade ago I spent a few years running a couple of kosher kitchens. Unfamiliar to me at the time,...
by perfectlittlebites | Aug 26, 2014 | Baking, Cooking, Dessert, Food, health, Ice cream, Nutrition, Photography, Recipe, restaurant, vegetarian
If you’ve been following along, you know that I’ve been on a roasted corn husk kick lately. Admittedly, it started a few years ago after seeing everything Alex Talbot was doing over at Ideas in Food. To me, this ice cream has a caramel corn or popcorn taste to it. I...
by perfectlittlebites | Aug 9, 2014 | Assorted, Baking, Cooking, Dessert, Food, Gardening, health, Nutrition, Photography, Recipe, restaurant, vegetarian
Right now, there are a few items on my menu that use fennel bulbs. To get the amount we need, we have a ridiculous abundance of the fronds and stalks. The past few weeks have been full of fennel experiments. My favorite use for the stalks is to make a stock with them...
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...
