Ask Chef Mike/Chef Mike Asks: Radio Kitchen Forums Some serendipitous posts in the forums Mar 9, 2010
Some interesting new posts today in the Radio Kitchen Forums: A happy accident creates an interesting beer, and Chef Dan Leff ponders choices in a volatile spring produce season.
Click on the links below to check out and sound off about these items. Or make some food news of your own and share with our Radio Kitchen community!
Radio Kitchen Forums What are your Comfort Food memories? Mar 8, 2010
Comfort food for me takes different twists. As a boy, my family lived for a couple of years in Bangkok, Thailand. So Thai and southeast asian food is one of my comfort foods.
In the "Chef Mike Asks" Radio Kitchen Forum, I am posting a link to a to a simple do-at-home Pho recipe from the Runaway Spoon blog. Pho, a national dish of Vietnam, is a beef and noodle soup that is hearty and healthy. And brings back some wonderful comfort food memories for me. What are some of your comfort food memories?
What's that? Chef's Lounge March 2K10 March 6, 2010
Another sterling Chef's Lounge event at Pier 23 in San Francisco. We had a great turnout and a huge thank you to Flicka McGurrin and the staff at Pier 23 Café. Click on the link below for the article and pictures!
Ask Chef Mike/Chef Mike Asks The New Radio Kitchen Forums Feb 28, 2010
Here's another feature I've added to the Radio Kitchen: "Ask Chef Mike/Chef Mike Asks". Find it at Forums.RadioKitchen.net. It's an interactive message board where we can discuss news and views about food, wine and cooking. One of the ways I'm going to implement this new Forum is by incorporating some of the articles I'm always finding on food, wine and cooking and spark some dialogue. I'll be posting links to articles and soliciting your thoughts and responses.
First up on the Radio Kitchen Forums, my question to you inspred from a blog post by Steven Mirassou of Steven Kent Winery in Livermore, California. On the forum, I've posted a link to Steven's blog. Check it out and then post your thoughts. The basic question: Do you drink Red Wine?
Recipe Tweak (and other ulterior motives) Pork Tostadas and a great cause! Feb 22, 2010
A friend of mine, Chef David Nelson, suggests a recipe for my Mexican food tweak/tangent. A Pork tostada with fresh pico de gallo. It also gives me a chance to promote his great cause, Chefs4Students.org.
Radio Kitchen Interactive New Feature: Now you can comment on articles Feb 18, 2010
Now you can comment on articles and stories here on The Radio Kitchen. At the end of every new article (and every past article I can update) there is an interactive seciton where you can post comments. Let's start a dialogue!
Podcast: From the Radio Kitchen Archives Alice Medrich: First Lady of Chocolate Feb. 10, 2010
PODCAST: Alice Medrich - Chocolate in Season
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PODCAST: Alice Medrich - Artisan Chocolate
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PODCAST: Alice Medrich - Too Much Chocolate?
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Chocolate is the first thing that comes to mind when I think of foods of love. For Valentines Day, here are some shows from the Radio Kitchen archives with the First Lady of Chocolate, Alice Medrich. We talked with Alice back when her book, "A Year In Chocolate" (Warner) first came out. Her most recent book is "Pure Dessert" (Artisan). She still writes and gives classes. And we will be sure and chat with her again in the future.
Her recipe for Chocolate Pecan Pie is sure to make your valentine swoon. The link is below. Also remember, we're including the nutritional analysis on all of our new recipes. Nothing wrong with a slice of Chocolate Pecan Pie, as long as you know what the rest of your days calories and numbers are, right? This recipe is definitely worth the splurge!
What's That? Notes from the Chef's Lounge Feb. 3, 2010
Monday night was another infamous get-together called "Chef's Lounge", where food pros, foodies and the occasional purveyor come together for an informal night of food, wine and conversation. It's a nice and light-hearted evening of some networking, some wine and/or beer drinking, sharing dishes, sharing lies and all-around fun. We do this on the first Monday of the month (Monday nights are good for chefs, usually a day off) and we had a nice turnout of about 20.
Note: The Podcasts below are from the Radio Kitchen Archives and are interviews that I did with Amanda Hesser about her book, Cooking for Mr. Latte (WW Norton). Her new venture is Food52.com.
PODCAST: Finding dinner and a soulmate
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PODCAST: Food and dating
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PODCAST: Can your date pass the food test?
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PODCAST: Cooking that first date meal
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Here's a website that I recently discovered that is packed with recipes from home cooks around the world. Food52.com is the work of Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs. Their unique plan has visitors submitting recipes on a different theme each week to the website. As the editors of the site, and accomplished cooks and writers themselves, they try out the recipes, and choose two that the community then votes on. The weekly recipe winners will end up in a Food52 cookbook. Cool idea, no? (more.. click on "Links" below)
Recipe Tweak Valentine's Day Linguine Jan. 27. 2010
Here's another recipe tweak. And just in time for Valentine's Day. I know you are looking for something sweet to make your sweetie, well here's the Tweak: Take a cream sauce and add some beets and mushrooms and voila, you have a pretty pink linguine for your sweetheart on Valentine's Day.
Oh and let me mention again, I am going through all the recipes in the Radio Kitchen Recipe Index and including the nutrition analysis. Note that the numbers are a best approximation of the calories and nutrients, not gospel but a good guideline. If there is a recipe that you would like to know the values on, just drop me a line.
Recipe Tweak On a Mexican Tangent with Chef Mike Jan 25, 2010
We're starting a new feature on the Radio Kitchen: Recipe Tweak. Where we take a classic recipe and tweak it just a little. Today, we'll take the classic Sopes and tweak them with some Sweet Potatoes. Also Chef Mike is on a Mexican tangent so he shares a recipe for Chilaquiles with Chicken and Salsa Verde. Enjoy!
What's this? The Radio Kitchen: We're Back! Jan. 21, 20101
We're Back!
Who Cooked this up?
I'm Michael Reining, a graduate of the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco, I have cooked in restaurant and corporate catering kitchens, pie shops and even Jack-In-The-Box (my first cooking gig when I was 18). I also do some personal catering business and some cooking instruction. After 17 years as a veteran of broadcast radio (read-Disc Jockey) and now nearly 16 years as a kitchen pro, I am putting all the pieces of my life into this project. I am your host for "The Radio Kitchen.
Through the stories on The Radio Kitchen I want to get you interested, PASSIONATE, about food and cooking. I'm gonna tell you a story, a story that, I hope will make you hungry. Hungry for more! More food. More information. More recipes. More. Join me as I concoct a mélange ranging from interviews with food pros and foodies, recipe and menu ideas, new and fun food products, plus ways to play with your food along with wines and sprits.
So here we gooo!!! Keep watching this space for updates with new articles, recipes, podcasts and fun.
If you haven't checked out the Radio Kitchen before, there are archived shows that you can listen to. Also, I'm in the process of updating the recipes with nutritional information. Please though, these are at best, estimates and depending on how you cook, the numbers may vary.
With Chef Mike Reining
