Blue Orbiting

Asking a chef to choose one knife is like asking a golfer to pick one club to use for driving, chipping and putting…or asking a carpenter to choose one tool that is best for cutting, measuring and drilling.

What is lunch? Whether working in a garage, on Wall St. or in an operating room, we need fuel when we’re away from the nest. Around, oh say 11:30, we want something fast, easy to eat, cheap, and most of all, tasty. Since I can remember, the usual hand-to-maw fare has been burgers, pizza, [...]

Recently I was trying to figure out how to do a “banana creme brulee canoli”…it just sounds good…get some banana creme pie filling with fresh chunks of bananas and somehow candy the ends like a creme brulee without burning the canoli shell, then drizzle with honey.

This blog deserves much more time than I’m going to give it right now…but I was reading an article in Nation’s Restaurant News on El Pollo Loco picking a fight with KFC (I post feeds on my website to some great blogs so I can go there every day to keep up with what’s going [...]