Tag Archives: steak

Video: Filet Mignon for Valentine’s Day

A few weeks back, I started brainstorming with the brilliant minds in Astor Center’s new media department ways to get our content out to more folks than just the ones who come in for classes with me. From that conversation was born The Gourmand & the Peasant web series. Here’s the pilot episode and I really hope you like it as much as we all do. Awesome thanks to everyone who made this possible, especially Kent, Cory and Ross. This is episode #1 of many more to follow and hopefully someday soon I’ll be thanking an amazing team at a fancy awards dinner. Go watch it!!
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Homemade Cheesesteak, Thankfully Nothing Like Subway

It takes a lot of food styling to make a Subway sandwich look appealing to yours truly. Its cheap convenience food that works just fine in a pinch, if you stick with vegetables. Yet through a miracle of computer generated…
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Alchemy Restaurant

What?! A restaurant review? Okay, so the truth is I was a little traumatized by my last attempt at a restaurant review and promise to, from this point forward, name the place, even if the review is less than flattering….
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Grilled Sirlion with Olive Salsa? VOTE NOW!!

The Gourmand used to work in a kitchen in a very fine restaurant in Park Slope and there, he was taught to make chimichurri. Except, we went to a restaurant recently, and ordered a steak served with chimichurri and our…
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