http://peacelovefood.com Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:17:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For David's birthday, we made reservations at Charlie Trotter's. We've already been to Alenia, and we will be heading to Tru for his Christmas gift of 2008. This time, we decided to do different menus to experience two separate dinners. Dave went with the Grand menu, and I decided ... http://peacelovefood.com/2008/07/27/charlie-trotters-vegetable-menu/ I wish I could invent recipes like this. I would love to be able to take the store-bought foods that I eat and learn how to make them at home to avoid all of the preservatives and whatnot. Maybe someday I will get to that point, but ... http://peacelovefood.com/2008/04/13/home-made-oreos/ Taking the "Tour" at Alinea is to sign up for a marathon meal of 24 courses with featured ingredients that range from Trout Roe, hand harvested by a friend of Chef Grant Achatz, to liquefied caramel corn. So sit back, relax, and get ready to see what it ... http://peacelovefood.com/2008/02/03/taking-the-tour-at-alinea/ Dave first heard about, and entered, the St. Mike's chili cookoff in 2006. That first year was not his best, as he ran out of chili before the end of the night. We made sure that wouldn't happen again, by using this bad boy: 2007 was much better - ... http://peacelovefood.com/2008/02/01/chili-cookoff-2008/ For all our big talk on food and wanting to try new things, we always seem to make the same dish whenever we cook salmon. Now don't get me wrong, I really do enjoy the Lemon and Dill salmon with yogurt sauce, but I've been itching to try something ... http://peacelovefood.com/2008/01/29/smoked-paprika-roasted-salmon/ I love wings. I love spicy in general. My wife, and co-blogger here, is new to wings in general. We started making ours a while back and just recently did I start experimenting with wing sauces, as in making my own. I suppose I should show ... http://peacelovefood.com/2008/01/20/spicy-buffalo-wings/ For the past few years, David has participated in a fundraising chili cookoff. It's that time of year again. I figured that I'd post the information here for anyone that would be interested in joining us for a fun night of chili eating. If you think you ... http://peacelovefood.com/2008/01/02/chili-cookoff-time/ One of my New Year's resolutions is to post regularly on this blog. I do love both cooking and blogging, I think my only problem is actually remembering to take pictures of the food while I'm cooking it. We'll re-start the blogging with nature's most perfect food: Bacon Growing up, my ... http://peacelovefood.com/2008/01/01/its-been-a-while/ Wow, its been far too long since Chris and I have updated Peacelovefood, which is a shame, because we really enjoy it, and really, there isn't a better domain name for a food blog. So anyway, we will be having a new series starting up, hopefully this week. ... http://peacelovefood.com/2007/07/08/a-whole-new-world/ In the past, David and I have tried a few different veggie burgers and not really been a fan of them. When talking about lentils, making our own veggie burgers came up quite a few times. Looking through a few different places, I came across one that I ... http://peacelovefood.com/2007/03/27/red-lentil-burgers-with-aioli/