Say Aloha to poke

Written on November 16th, 2011 by Katie. Filed under Eating Out, Travel

Sometimes during exciting travel adventures, people fall in love with a mysterious local and share naughty nights and lurid adventures together until it's time to go home. I, however, connect with food (and booze) and bring my lurid voyaging affairs to the table in a most open manner. My latest local foodie crush from my trip to Maui - poke.  Raw chunks ...

Fit for space: NASA food for the STS-135 crew

Written on July 22nd, 2011 by Katie. Filed under Recipe Geekout, Travel

Look at that meal above.  Jealous much?  Is your mouth salivating at the very thought of its thermostabilized goodness? This NASA blog post on feeding the STS-135 crew is pretty awesome.  I'm bummed to just now be reading it as NASA was encouraging folks on Earth to cook and eat along with their July 14th 'All-American Meal' time. You can click here to ...

Eating salad in West Texas

Written on April 22nd, 2010 by Katie. Filed under Eating Out, Personal, Travel

First off, I am fresh back from a trip to West Texas to celebrate food writer and radio show host John DeMers' novel Marfa Shadows (the first in his Chef Brett series) and I am wholeheartedly in love with this little far off corner of my home state. Second off, YES.  I am totally writing a post about eating salad in ...

Across the table: Bananas Foster in NOLA, baby

Written on December 15th, 2009 by happykatie. Filed under Cajun, Eating Out, Travel

Bananas Foster as prepared by a master at Emeril's Delmonico from happykatie on Vimeo. More posts to come on a foodie blogger experience in New Orleans with Harrah's NOLA - but I wanted to share a bit of 'at the table cooking fun' at Emeril's Delmonico restaurant. Have you tried making Banana's Foster before?  It's really not hard at all (in fact, ...

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