Forking Tasty

Making Mom Happy

It seems that in recent years my mother has acquired quite penchant for Osso Buco, the Italian peasant food that is now a top priced menu item. If you as her she will tell you she has always loved it. Regardless, If a restaurant has it on the menu we are there. It doesn’t matter what the restaurant looks like, smells like or where it is, we must go in and order the osso buco. In a lot of ways I think this is a fun little game but on the flip side, I can not help but think how easy it is to make the dish. So, today…

St. Thomas Sushi Iguana

Living on a ship for months at a time can sometimes cause you to miss certain cuisines. One that I miss a lot is sushi. While in the Caribbean I would go to St. Thomas, Virgin Islands once a week, and decided to spend a couple of bucks and go to a place I heard of called Beni Iguana’s…

The cookie mine of chocolate

Have you had these cookies at General Greene. I am not even going to really get into it. Go there and get them! They come warm, each bite has an eruption of melted chocolate chips in it and when your done they also have this ridiculous homemade ice cream to wash it down with. My choice is definitely the salted carmel

The General Green
229 Dekalb Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11205
(718) 222-1510

SXSW Pigout

Last week I spent some time in Austin at my first SXSW conference. Although it was filled with networking, film, dev geeks and some amazing parties, I am going to focus on the BBQ in this post. In Texas the ‘que is nothing to sniffle at and you can pretty much bank on it being good no matter where you go. That said, there has to be a “best”. Roll up your sleeves and lets dig in…

The 22 course lunch

It takes forever to get a reservation and it takes 3 hrs to eat once you do get one. My friend Aimee scored one this week and lucky for me her husband Eric was fishing in the keyes. I accepted teh invite and we took a 4 hour hiatus from the world to duck into the thin, dark bar that is Momofuku Ko. $163 and 22 courses later we emerged bigger but better than when we arrived. Here is what we ate in order…