Okay, more details to follow, but tonight I got to eat at Jasper‘s Restaurant of Kansas City and in attendence selling his new cookbook (a work of both food porn and some awesome recipes) was none other the Next Iron Chef competitor and all around awesome guy Chef John Besh. Pictures and recipes and reviews […]
Kansas City Cuisine
#MeatlessMonday meets 2009 Nude & Eco-Cheap Cooking Initiative Recipe 13: Eggplant Rolltini
Okay, it’s #meatlessmonday again, which means it’s time to do right by yourself and the earth by going twenty-four short hours without meat. Sound tough? Not when you have Eggplant Rollitini I just love eggplant and I swear after this, so will you! Also, you may have noticed, this is another fantasic 2009 Nude & […]
The Best Meal I Ever Ate
Eating with Chef Jasper Mirabile Those of you who follow me on Twitter may have seen me mentioning a meal I recently had at Jasper’s in Kansas City, MO. Some of you may have even gotten the chance to see the picture I took of some of the amazing food Chef Jasper made for us. […]
The American Restaurant (or The Best Lamb I Ever Had)
Fine dining is very much alive in Kansas City, MO at The American Restaurant. Located right next to Crown Center, The American is making a name for Kansas City upscale/fine dining cuisine and serves wonderful contemporary American food. The American and Chef Debbie Gold Returning to helm the kitchen at The American is Chef Debbie […]
Asian Braised Tofu
Braised tofu. For some reason, the very concept terrified me. In fact, despite doing some very good braised dishes in my life (if I do say so myself), the whole technique seems exotic and difficult. Then again, sometimes you have a meal (like the Fire Bird from Blue Koi made with braised tofu instead of […]
An Evening At Aixois
Recently I was honored to sit down with Chef Emmanual Langlade, head chef at Aixois French Bistro, near the Brookside area in Kanas City, MO. For those who live outside Kansas City or have just not been, Aixois is an experience. It’s elegant, yet not ostentatious. I could take my wife on a romantic date […]
Blog Action Day: Poverty
Poverty is not something I talk very much about on Blog Well Done, but given the importance of Blog Action Day, I thought I would take a moment to discuss it. As my friend at the Peanut Butter Project has rightly said, it is difficult to eat well when you are in poverty. This statement […]
El Rincon Columbian
I went to my friend John’s wife’s birthday party at a resturant in Strawberry Hill called El Rincon Columbian, which translates to The Columbian Corner. We had a great time and the food was excellent. My wife ordered chicken in a Columbian sauce of chopped onions, tomatoes, and saffron for which I am going to find a recipe. […]
Recipe: Soyrizo Taquitos
In a episode of Dinner: Impossible, Chef Robert Irvine was tasked with preparing a cocktail party for a fashion designer in New York. During this challenge, he put together an amazing spread of finger foods including some awesome looking chorizo taquitos (he also did a salmon mousse which inspired the one I blogged on earlier.) A […]
Poached Fruit
As part of the overabundance of fruit from a week ago, I decided to poach some of the apples and peaches I had left from Waverly. I found that poaching was very similar to the process I used to make pickles where I produced a flavorful liquid, put the fruit into the liquid, and made a fantastic […]