Patty Canedo is a pastry chef at a famed, private country club on Palm Beach and writes weekly about her kitchen exploits.Chef de Cuisine Luke is struggling with boxes and sweating, so I run over to offer help. “You know how to cook lobster?” He opens a box and pulls…
“It was a brave man who first ate an oyster.” Jonathan Swift said that, but he could have just as easily been talking about the artichoke, a member of the thistle family with spiky little thorns that looks like the Jolly Green Giant’s fist. You gotta give credit for at…
This week on the blog:Make your own corn tortillas at home with Maseca Corn Masa. Our new columnist Patty Canedo has another edition of Half Baked.We start off this week’s 100 Favorite Dishes with sliders from Zed451.Charlie cooks a feast using dried Mexican chilies. Part one teaches you how to…
Thankfully, there are a few places around town that cater to the procrastinators. In all of its commercial holiday greatness, Valentine’s Day is about showcasing how much you love someone. If you haven’t sprung on that trip to Jamaica, the diamond earrings, or the hot-air balloon, the most convenient plan…
Tell us what is the best pizza in Broward and Palm Beach counties in the comments section below. Voting ends May 26.Need some suggestions? Click here to view our pizza guide with critics’ picks.And click here for a master list of all Readers’ Poll items…
As a countdown to the Best Of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to John.Linn@BrowardPalmBeach.com…
David Eyre and Mike Belben are two blokes who own the Eagle pub in Clerkenwell, London. And by blokes, I’m talking British bitches. Anyway, David and Mike were looking for a new term that would imply that their pub’s food was better than every other pub’s food. It was not…
If there’s one food trend that never seemed to gather much steam in America, it’s the chew-while-you-drink deal. I can’t say this really surprises me, though I was one of the first (and still remaining) huge fans of bubble tea. So it was with only slight trepidation that I threw…
Welcome back to Charlie’s dried chili adventure. In previous installments, we talked about how to prepare dried chilies as powder or puree and how to transform those ingredients into award-winning chili con carne. Today, we’re going to use our chilies to make pork al pastor, a Mexican dish I put…
Grenache is a grape in search of a bandwagon. It’s one of the most widely planted grapes in the world, but most wine drinkers know it — if they know it at all — as one of the varietals that make up the blends of France’s Rhone and southern regions…
Unrepentant beer drinkers, rejoice! Each week, Clean Plate Charlie will select one craft or import beer and give you the lowdown on it: How does it taste? What should you drink it with? Where can you find it? But mostly, it’s all about the love of the brew. If you…
As a countdown to the Best Of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to John.Linn@BrowardPalmBeach.com…
If you’ve ever had a poor boy in New Orleans, you know that it’s not the freshly fried seafood that makes the sandwich. That honor goes to the flaky, airy bread shipped around the Crescent City by the G.H. Leidenheimer Baking Co. It should come as no surprise, then, that…
I barely even have to chew,” my friend Jeffrey said, pausing for a moment from sucking sticky-sweet barbecue sauce off the business end of a baby back rib. “They fall right off the bone.” He and I and about a dozen of my friends were hovering over aluminum trays outfitted…
We’ve added a bunch more special menus and Valentine’s Day deals going on at local restaurants to our already long list. If you don’t have plans yet, now is the perfect time to check out our full list and make a reservation for the most romantic night of the year…
Jamie Pruitt has come a long way from cracking crabs legs in Maryland, though we’re pretty sure he still gives the occasional crustacean a whack as chef at Wild Olives by Todd English in Boca. He has been in Florida for nearly a decade now, working at Gigi’s, Prezzo, City…
As a countdown to the Best Of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to John.Linn@BrowardPalmBeach.com…
If there’s one way to your Valentine’s heart, it’s through candy. Chocolate, caramels, suckers, toffee…there are so many ways to say “be mine” that involve sweets. At To The Moon Marketplace in Wilton Manors, you’ll undoubtedly find the most interesting, quirky selection of candy around, from novelty treats to fine…
• Well, that didn’t last long. Carousel Can Can Café, the CityPlace restaurantainment venue whose high-kicking can-can babes were supposed to make its ersatz French food go down easier, has kicked the bucket after only six months. Reportedly the CP folks are negotiating with a new tenant, whose concept will…
As a countdown to the Best Of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to John.Linn@BrowardPalmBeach.com…
That’s right, folks. This week in Dish we finally hit the metal and review the rib and ‘cue joint from Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain, Rock ‘N’ Roll Ribs. We first took a look at the now mega-popular rib shack when we interviewed owners McBrain and Rick “Moby” Baum back…
Yesterday, I talked about how to turn dried, Mexican chiles into powder or paste that can be used in any number of dishes. Today, we’re going to put those ingredients to use in a batch of chili con carne, Texas-style. I haven’t always made chili sans beans, the method most…
