Archive for July, 2007

Macerated Berry Parfait

By Jerry • Jul 31st, 2007 • Category: Recipes

Summer is upon us, and with it the need for lighter meals and cool refreshing desserts. For many this means ice cream, gelato, sorbet or a float, all of which are wonderful indeed, but to me it means fruit, preferably with a bit of a kick.
This recipe stemmed partially from the fact that I have [...]



Shrimp with Lemon and Cilantro on Ramen Noodles

By Jerry • Jul 27th, 2007 • Category: Recipes

If you’re looking for a quick, light lunch for those warm summer days, look no further than your freezer and pantry to deliver something insanely satisfying in just a few minutes time.
Here on the Texas/Oklahoma border, summer has been late arriving. We finally got one of the first really “summery” days about a week [...]



Thursday Thirteen #12 - Thirteen Things about Chef Tyler Florence

By Jerry • Jul 25th, 2007 • Category: Blog Events

Thirteen Things about Food Network’s Tyler Florence
Welcome back to my continuing series on the The Food Network’s stable of celebrity chefs. As promised, the tone this week will be positive, as I highlight one of the people whom I firmly believe redeems Food TV for some of its Bobble-Headed-ness, Chef Tyler Florence.I’m sure that [...]



Ack!

By Jerry • Jul 23rd, 2007 • Category: Personal Ramblings

Please excuse my lack of updates over the past few days. My computer suffered a complete failure, and I’ve just gone through the process of getting everything backed up-burned to DVD, switched, swapped and safely stored.
Hopefully I’ll be back to a routine in the next day or two, because of course, the fact I [...]



Thursday Thirteen #11 - Thirteen Things about Sandra Lee

By Jerry • Jul 18th, 2007 • Category: Blog Events

Thirteen Things about food Network’s Aunt Sandy

You’ll note that I’m alternating my TT’s on the Food Network stable of Celebs. I will continue switching between those I like and those I find to be a complete waste of time and resources until I run out of one or the other. This week’s topic [...]



The Food Snob Chronicles Volume 3: Would you like some food with that?

By Jerry • Jul 17th, 2007 • Category: Food Snob Chronicles

I can’t help it, it makes me crazy. It doesn’t really matter who prepared the dish, be it myself, a friend, a chef, or a restaurant line-cook. It really doesn’t, I still get aggravated and the food snob in me wants to shout at the top of my lungs:
“HEY! Would you like [...]



Your Pantry or Mine No.3 - Part 1 - Drunken Chili Shrimp with 3 Bean and Cucumber Salad

By Jerry • Jul 16th, 2007 • Category: Recipes

Summer has finally rolled into our part of Texas, hopefully leaving the thunderstorms and driving rain that have been our constant companions since March behind us for a while. With the mercury rising rapidly, it was a perfect excuse to fire up the grill and go with a side dish that was on the [...]



Say it isn’t so, JAG!

By Jerry • Jul 16th, 2007 • Category: News and Reviews

For those of you who might have missed the Next Food network Star last night on FoodTV, you probably shouldn’t have. It was a wild, if extremely disappointing ride.
JAG (Joshua Adam Garcia), my personal favorite to win, ended up having to resign from the competition after it came to light that he’d misrepresented himself [...]



First impressions, Food Network’s Simply Delicioso with Ingrid Hoffman

By Jerry • Jul 14th, 2007 • Category: News and Reviews

I just had the chance to catch the first episode of Simply Delicioso with Ingrid Hoffman on Food Network. My first impression is that this is going to be one of the good ones.
Food Network’s official description of Ingrid is as follows:
“Ingrid Hoffmann makes every meal simply delicioso with her practical approach to [...]



The ravioli were awful, but oh, the sauce!

By Jerry • Jul 12th, 2007 • Category: Recipes

They look luscious don’t they? Rich, huge, decadent ravioli, just barely touched with an intensely flavored, yet extremely light tomato sauce. I love ravioli. I love mushrooms. Mushroom ravioli is a natural progression from those two factors. Unfortunately, I made a fatal error with these. I discovered that neither my [...]