John GL posted an article on The Alcoholian - Nov 29, 2009, 7:39 pm
Posted by johngl My most glorious spousal unit discovered some 8″ diameter paella pans for less than $10 each. Never one to caught short of pans, we purchased four of them. Finding myself with ...
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John GL posted an article on The Alcoholian - Nov 28, 2009, 5:54 pm
Posted by johngl for my friends at Keeper Collection and the Wine and Food Foundation of Texas. AUSTIN, TX (November 28, 2009) – After submitting their renditions of recipes from Chefs Bull, C...
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John GL posted an article on The Alcoholian - Nov 27, 2009, 6:53 pm
Posted by johngl This time of year it is pretty easy to find bone-in rack of pork. If you cut a rack into individual chops, you’ve got yourself a real “ribeye” style treat (Texans t...
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John GL posted an article on The Alcoholian - Nov 25, 2009, 9:29 am
Posted by johngl About a week ago, we got the 2009 edition of the Cook’s Illustrated compendium in the mail. These are indexed volumes of the entire year’s worth of magazines.  I have th...
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John GL posted an article on The Alcoholian - Nov 22, 2009, 12:37 am
Posted by johngl I love going to the historic Driskill Hotel, especially when they host an event featuring close to 70 red wines, about 20 different kinds of bubbly, and food from 22 of my favorite r...
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John GL posted an article on The Alcoholian - Nov 21, 2009, 1:57 pm
Posted by johngl It was the beginning of a beautiful Fall afternoon here in Austin: bright, clear, blue sky and temps in the low to mid 70s. This wasn’t like any other day however. On this day,...
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John GL posted an article on The Alcoholian - Nov 15, 2009, 9:54 pm
Posted by johngl A long-time friend called me last weekend while the most glorious spousal unit and I were down in San Marcos, TX — home of more outlet stores than one city should have — ...
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John GL posted an article on The Alcoholian - Nov 7, 2009, 4:24 pm
Posted by johngl Way back in the early days of this blog, I did a posting on a drink I called the Limon Ginger. It was tasty and refreshing. Here is the new updated version using specific ingredient...
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John GL posted an article on The Alcoholian - Nov 7, 2009, 2:37 pm
There are a lot of buzzwords flying around the food world these days: organic, natural, and free range are just a few of them. The sad thing is, only one of those words has any...
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John GL posted an article on The Alcoholian - Nov 1, 2009, 6:02 pm
Posted by johngl Sometimes referred to as chicken fried steak, this crispy-fried beef cut is very similar in composition to the breaded pork tenderloin we visited a couple of weeks ago. You could use...
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John GL posted an article on The Alcoholian - Oct 31, 2009, 10:41 am
Posted by johngl A few days ago, the most glorious spousal unit stated, “If you make it home by 7 on Friday, I will make you a nice dinner.” What she didn’t know at the time was tha...
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John GL posted an article on The Alcoholian - Oct 25, 2009, 8:39 pm
Posted by johngl There is really nothing I like better than traveling for business and spending four hours with a hundred people I don’t know, shoulder to shoulder, in a flying sardine can.  M...
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John GL posted an article on The Alcoholian - Oct 24, 2009, 4:09 pm
Posted by johngl Those who’ve read the previous breaded tenderloin post know that I had some leftover tenderloin parts that needed to get used up right quick.  I did that. I thought about cal...
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John GL posted an article on The Alcoholian - Oct 18, 2009, 10:31 am
Posted by johngl Back in the olden days, when I was in my late teens and lived in Des Moines, IA, there were these two drive-in style places that had just awesome breaded pork tenderloin sandwiches.Â...
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John GL posted an article on The Alcoholian - Oct 17, 2009, 6:03 pm
Posted by johngl Despite the fact that this site is called Alcoholian, I don’t normally chat about alcohol. But every once in a while we try and live up to our namesake and venture outside of t...
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John GL posted an article on The Alcoholian - Oct 12, 2009, 8:17 pm
Posted by johngl on behalf of Keeper Collection Dear Friends & Foodies – The heat is ON! On November 30, 2009, Keeper Collection, LLC and Plate & Vine Interactive Cookbook will be hosting an...
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John GL posted an article on The Alcoholian - Oct 12, 2009, 5:15 am
Posted by johngl As much as I would like to make food from scratch all the time, sometimes it just isn’t in the cards. Thankfully, I have a most glorious spousal unit who is wicked smart using ...
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John GL posted an article on The Alcoholian - Oct 11, 2009, 12:47 pm
Posted by johngl I admit it, I watch Iron Chef America and oddly enough, I have some pretty strong opinions about the chefs on the show. Cat Cora? She gets a rating somewhere between bleh and meh. Mi...
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John GL posted an article on The Alcoholian - Oct 7, 2009, 5:33 am
Posted by johngl Pasta is really pretty cheap. Even premium, so-called hand made dried pastas go for around $3-5 per pound at the local grocer. So why in the world would anyone spend $179 for a pasta...
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John GL posted an article on The Alcoholian - Oct 4, 2009, 8:11 am
Posted by johngl It’s gets pretty bad when I had to use the Alcoholian’s search feature to find out if I’d ever done a post on lamburgers.  It turns out that we made them at BigDMc...
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John GL posted an article on The Alcoholian - Oct 3, 2009, 12:52 pm
posted by johngl Well, another 80 hour work-week has come and gone and since I haven’t cooked anything in like forever my readership has tapered off.  Such a fickle group: readers.  If you do...
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John GL posted an article on The Alcoholian - Sep 26, 2009, 5:36 pm
posted by johngl Since I’ve put in a hundred hour work-week, I didn’t get a chance to cook at all (and barely had any time to eat), so I was in a quandary as to what to post.  Luckily,...
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John GL posted an article on The Alcoholian - Sep 19, 2009, 9:53 pm
Posted by johngl I like duck. You may even have seen the duck burger I whipped up a couple of weeks ago. Well, I had the breast left over and last weekend, I made it up for our 18th wedding anniver...
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John GL posted an article on The Alcoholian - Sep 13, 2009, 11:45 am
Posted by johngl It’s been nearly two years since I last wrote about Trattoria Lisina.  In fact, I think it was the fourth post on the Alcoholian (the Alcoholian launched 2 years ago today)....
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John GL posted an article on The Alcoholian - Sep 12, 2009, 11:03 pm
Posted by johngl Everyone knows that saying about comparing apples to apples, but does anyone ever actually do it?  I mean, sure, you go into the grocery store and fondle 50 apples out of the same...
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John GL posted an article on The Alcoholian - Sep 6, 2009, 9:53 am
Posted by johngl Labor Day is upon us!  Time to wrap up this Burger Quest. You might wonder: Why would anyone in their right mind grind a duck into burger meat? Well, I like duck and I think duck ...
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John GL posted an article on The Alcoholian - Sep 5, 2009, 11:01 am
Posted by johngl As Labor Day quickly approaches and I sit here contemplating the finale of the burger thing, the fate of this blog, the state of my health, and spending some time at my real job this...
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John GL posted an article on The Alcoholian - Sep 3, 2009, 9:09 pm
Posted by johngl At the end of the Pork Burger post, I mentioned that I might try the pork burger on an English muffin with some hollandaise. Not a bad progression. We’ll keep this simple wit...
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John GL posted an article on The Alcoholian - Sep 1, 2009, 9:49 pm
Posted by johngl You may recall Anthony’s name from past posts on Wine Salons.  I have a lot of respect for this man. He has more wine knowledge tucked away inside his pinky finger than I will...
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John GL posted an article on The Alcoholian - Aug 30, 2009, 12:06 pm
Posted by johngl Back on the 4th of July holiday, when my good friend BigDMcC and I participated in our very own paella fest, he brought over a type of pepper seasoning I had never experienced before...
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John GL posted an article on The Alcoholian - Aug 29, 2009, 9:49 am
Posted by johngl Back in the Burger Your Way To Labor Day post, I mentioned something about the possibility of throwing a fish burger into the mix.  Well, the wait is over and here it is: Yep, th...
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John GL posted an article on The Alcoholian - Aug 23, 2009, 10:34 am
Posted by johngl One of the coolest things about Austin, for me anyway, is that we have great grocery stores.  We’ve got a couple of high-end companies, Whole Foods and Central Market (a divis...
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John GL posted an article on The Alcoholian - Aug 22, 2009, 6:21 pm
Posted by johngl For whatever reason, the Sockeye Salmon has been great this year.  I don’t know if the distribution channels are finally running smoother and delivering fresher product or wha...
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John GL posted an article on The Alcoholian - Aug 21, 2009, 8:08 am
Posted by johngl Given my rant on Gimmick Burgers, this struck me as appropriate:
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John GL posted an article on The Alcoholian - Aug 17, 2009, 10:41 pm
Posted by johngl I don’t do this very often (at least in print) but with the economy in the pooper and restaurants behaving badly, I feel the need to say something. It came up this afternoon o...
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John GL posted an article on The Alcoholian - Aug 15, 2009, 9:25 pm
Posted by johngl I had such great success with the sirloin & chuck burger, which created a great meaty taste along with a good texture and flavorful juices (that were helped along by a bit of butter)...
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John GL posted an article on The Alcoholian - Aug 11, 2009, 11:16 pm
Posted by johngl The other day a friend of mine told me about a new burger joint in town called, of all things, Elevation Burger. He said the meat tasted like cardboard. They are taking commercialis...
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John GL posted an article on The Alcoholian - Aug 9, 2009, 10:52 am
Posted by johngl According to legend (with support from McDonald’s Hamburger University), the world’s first burger was served in Athens, Texas during the late 1880’s.  It then trav...
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John GL posted an article on The Alcoholian - Aug 8, 2009, 11:23 am
Posted by johngl Burgers, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height Your buns can reach, while tasting outta sight To the ends of chewing and ideal...
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John GL posted an article on The Alcoholian - Aug 5, 2009, 7:31 pm
Posted by Keeper Collection If you’ve been following our previous posts (Part I & Part II), leaving Puglia was clearly saddening, but we said our goodbyes to Monopoli while continuing our food ...
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John GL posted an article on The Alcoholian - Aug 2, 2009, 4:55 pm
Posted by johngl Everywhere you look these days, burgers are garnering attention. The August issue of Texas Monthly posted the top 50 burgers in Texas. Both Bon Appétit and Food & Wine featured turk...
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