Recipe Fridays: Homemade Nachos

I’ve been Tweeting recently a lot about the love that dare not say its name: liquid cheese.  I love liquid cheese.  I’m not really ashamed of it, because I’ve always said if it tastes good, eat it.  And to me, a jar of Tostitos salsa con queso along with a bag of Tostitos hint of lime chips… tastes really good.  (This isn’t even a sponsored post… I just really like their products.)  A night in with a DVD or just some TV, chips and dip, I’m happy.  But… as much as I like it, I know that it’s not that [...]

Dogfish Head: Old Beer and Stinky Cheese

Dogfish Head Brewing, known for its charismatic leader, Sam Calagione, and its propensity for wacky, weird brewing experiments, came to town as part of an “Old Beer and Stinky Cheese” tasting event held in the Levi’s Photo Workshop space in SoHo. While there were plenty of distractions to the photography newbie — a photo booth, photo editing areas, pithy quotes on the walls, old cameras in cases — I was there as The Beer Boor, and so I threw myself into my work. The first pairing was the Burton Baton. At 11% alcohol by volume, it was also the weakest [...]

Bourgeois Pig

Fair warning: these pictures are awful.  This was the third “appointment” I had that night – first two separate press events, then dinner with a friend, and I semi-foolishly drove into the city to make things easier on me.  The night was disgustingly muggy and hot – much like the weather has been in New York – and the first two events I attended had little or no food of which to speak, so I was starving by the time I arrived at Bourgeois Pig, plus I’m not sure their air conditioning was working.  I had to ask my friend [...]

SF Foodbuzz Food Bloggers Fest – Cheese & Sparkling Wine Sessions (Saturday)

As part of the Foodbuzz Food Bloggers Festival, we were asked to sign up for informational/tasting sessions for Saturday’s festivities.  I immediately signed up for CHEESE – Cowgirl Creamery – and sparkling wine.  Good thing, too, because I later heard that they filled up so quickly, a lot of people were forced to take the other sessions!  (Of course, the other sessions had swag, but I was happy with my choices!) The morning cheese tasting session… See the woman in the white coat?  She kind of reminded me of the cheesemonger on Sex and the City, in that long ago [...]