Cuisine Capers

The title of this post is a bit misleading.  I haven’t, unfortunately, gone on a health kick and started to eat apples for lunch.  No fear of that.  Instead, I and some cohorts in crime ate lunch at Apple today.  We were in Cupertino, CA visiting the Apple campus on business.  We were treated to [...]

Our day started off nice and early - we headed to the airport at around 5:00 AM.  Flights were relatively uneventful, apart from our extended stay on the runway in Minneapolis.  Over an hour of sitting in one spot and doing nothing, while planes around us packed into the line that wasn’t moving.  If there [...]

Another of our simple meals at the fly in camp in northern Ontario.As mentioned before, we try and plan every other dinner to include something other than fish. This isn’t because of a lack of confidence in catching them, its more a desire to break up the entree’s so that we don’t get sick of [...]

Dry… Wet… Dry
One of the most enjoyable parts of a Canadian fishing trip is the classic “Shore Lunch”. The challenge of finding a suitable
location on the lake and creating a good cooking fire is half the fun. A shore lunch typically is fresh fish breaded and deep fried in oil with canned beans, potato salad [...]

A 3 hour drive north of International Falls, 100 miles north from there in a float plane, a cabin on a lake with the nearest human beings over 10 miles away, no roads, no TV, no phone, no internet. Just 6 men and the 3 F’s, Fish, Fun and
Food. Our 2nd annual fly-in fishing trip [...]

One night during our recent trip to Las Vegas, we decided that we wanted a quiet, more low-key, less expensive meal than we’d been eating previous nights. Vic had a bright idea - let’s go to a Korean BBQ place.
Me, I wasn’t so thrilled with the idea. While never having had Korean BBQ, it just [...]

I’ve always been a fan of Bobby Flay in a detached sort of way. He comes across as a cocky New Yorker, but his food is typically zesty, yet oddly simple.
Years ago, while in Manhattan, I had eaten at the Mesa Grill. It was my first experience with a “celebrity chef” restaurant. I left impressed [...]

Roy’s Restaurant, Las Vegas
Roy’s Restaurant, on Flamingo Rd., has become a dining tradition each year when we head to Vegas for an annual convention. A friend in Honolulu mentioned this chain to me, and when it was discovered that there was one in Vegas, which was really conveniently located to our hotel, we went. We’ve [...]

We’re heading to Las Vegas tomorrow morning for a buisiness conference. This means one thing - RESTAURANTS!
Las Vegas has gone through a real change in the last 10 years or so. It used to be the land of the cheap food - Prime Rib dinners for $3.99! Shrimp Cocktails for 99 cents! Uh, yeah. It’s [...]