Pork Belly. Does That Sound Silly?

As many of you already know I am a big fan of pork. I am not talking about the boring pork loin or pork tenderloin. Sure you can do some fun things with them but they are pretty one-dimensional. I can have even more fun with a shoulder or a fresh ham. But when you [...]

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Food Allergies…Is Everyone Gluten Free?

I have noticed a huge increase the last few years of customers who ask for a gluten-free meals. This is what Wikipedia says: A gluten-free diet is a diet completely free of ingredients derived from gluten-containing cereals: wheat (including kamut and spelt), barley, rye, and triticale, as well as the use of gluten as a food additive in the form of a flavoring, stabilizing or thickening [...]

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Thank you!!!

Just a super quick post.I want to thank everyone who has stopped by and looked at www.eatdrinkandroll.wordpress.com . I never thought that I would have gotten any views. Seriously  who cares what I think? The out pouring of support has been tremendous. All of you who have posted a comment, thank you for taking two [...]

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Kitchen vs. Front of the House.. so stupid!!

My first question is why? There is so much useless, negative energy that moves in and out of those swinging doors. Endless amounts of he said, she said. Why does this battle continue in hundreds of thousands of restaurants across the country? I am going to be brutally honest. I think jealousy is a huge [...]

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Pork Roll = “New Jersey Classic”

If you aren’t from New Jersey you may not know what I am talking about when I say that the Pork Roll Egg & Cheese (P.R.E.& C) is the signature breakfast sandwich on the planet. Ok, maybe not the planet, but at least the best breakfast sandwich on the east coast. Wikipedia describes it as [...]

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Is the customer always right? Really…

Here is another great question. Should I answer this as the customer or should I answer it as an employee or as an owner of a business? We have all heard this question a thousand times before, especially all of us in the hospitality industry. Some of us have even been lucky enough to have [...]

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Why are there so many “CHEFS”out there that can’t cook?

This is a very serious question, I ask myself this all the time. There is a simple answer and a more complex one. It’s so easy to say that the chef is the one who runs the kitchen. He does the ordering, purchasing, scheduling,writes menus, blah… blah…blah. This is all true, what I have found [...]

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Molly Pitcher Inn GingerBread House

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K Vintners Viognier 2008

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I’m kicking around ideas for Christmas Eve Dinner, Bring on the fish!

I know that I have a few weeks to go before the big Christmas Eve dinner. In my house it seems like we just finished the last load of dishes from Thanksgiving. I used to always cook a very nice dinner on this night, but I haven’t done it in a few years. Im starting [...]

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