January 1 offers an opportunity to forget the past and make a clean start of the year. Many of the world’s most persistent New Year’s traditions revolve around eating, with certain foods acting as symbols of the eater’s hopes and wishes for the future. Since we live in Nevada we all understand “the odds” – so increase yours in 2017 with these foods. Circular Foods: This is … [Read more...]
Obligatory Holiday Gift Guide, With a Twist
All food and drink writers are destined to do the annual what to buy as a holiday gift. They will show you cutting boards, knives, and, my favorite this season, a Marna Pink Piggy Steamer. I’m going in a different direction and offering items you can use for holiday cocktails, all Made in Nevada. Over the years in our family we always have a different holiday drink concoction … [Read more...]
Is Kimchi the New Miso?
To say Siu Korean BBQ/Asian Express has an unassuming exterior would be the understatement of the year. While there is a sign, so you know you’ve reached your destination there seems to be little or no activity. My dining companions wanted to leave, to come back another time, and I wouldn’t let them go. Once inside we were enveloped by the scent and the sleek decorating style, … [Read more...]
Parmesan Marks the Spot
So I’ve got a friend who goaded me into visiting Blitz. Now usually I’m more millennial main-stream, you know I have to be somewhere others will envy. My thoughts turned to how no-one would look at my Instagram’ed photos and what would I pin on Pinterest? Much to my surprise this is not a hidden hot spot it is simply a hot spot, the restaurant is humble but not a whole in the … [Read more...]
Foods in the Fall
When I was a kid my father used to haul me with him on a Saturday to get me out of my mom’s hair so I wasn’t underfoot. After I had children, I figured my mother had a martini and celebrated a few hours of peace the moment she heard the garage door close. My father would refer to these Saturdays as “our meanderings.” We would go to the liquor store, cigar store, dry cleaners, … [Read more...]
Oktoberfest and Chinese Food
I’d eat Chinese food every day. It’s my absolute favorite and when I’m in China I mainly eat from carts or street vendors, so I can get my fill of chicken feet, fish livers and scales, jellyfish or beef stomach. We forget that China has always been an overpopulated country, so people were forced to be creative to survive and, centuries ago, livestock farming was less developed … [Read more...]
Shawarma Me.
The minute I walked in the door at Suri’s Mediterranean they had me and I knew I’d be back, it was the scents of roasted meats, tahini, feta, lemon juice; the restaurant is immaculate. Suri’s Mediterranean features Shawarma which is a Levantine traditional cuisine where meats are prepared on a spit (commonly a vertical spit in restaurants). When sliced the meat has crisped … [Read more...]
Over 55 Lives
When I was a kid I always wanted to order from the Over- 55 menu and now that I’m an adult I want to order from the Kids Menu. I haven’t reached 55 yet, but I’ve noticed it’s hard to find special menu items anymore so I was extremely pleased to see a full page of “Over-55” items served all day at Baldini’s. That was only the beginning of a very pleasant lunch at Baldini’s. My … [Read more...]