Showing posts with label Restaurant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Restaurant. Show all posts

Monday, January 17, 2011

The Vortex of Barbecue: Billy's Bar-B-Q in Lexington, Kentucky


BBQ, Barbecue,  Que, Q -- whatever you call it, we, Dave and I,  spend an inordinate amount of time seeking and savoring it.  Que seems to be one of the common threads that weaves its way through our travels. We seek it out.  We hunt it down.  We go way out of our way because of the signs.  It is the signs -- perched perilously on the sides of  mountains and propped up in the middle of cornfields -- that draw us inextricably towards The Vortex of Barbecue.

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

I'm Bad -- But La Bodega -- It's Good!

It's been a long hot summer and I've been neglecting my literary responsibilities in favor of gardening, sweating, swimming, sweating, canning and preserving, sweating, watering and watering and watering my black-spot-ridden heirloom tomato plants.  Suffice it to say that summer has been long and hot. My only excuse is that I decided to take some time off from writing in favor of reading -- books!  No web, just books for one glorious summer. But all good things must end so I'm back in the literary saddle again.

Just after we built the garden beds in spring.
My no-till garden has been a fun experiment that turned into a wonderful gardening success. Yes, it's true. We built ourselves a no-till garden, on a lark mind you, and it was a resounding success.  A success that provided organic veggies for the summer table all season long. But this too will be covered in a soon-to-be-created post.

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Pho Much Disappointment, So Little Time...

I love Pho.  I make Pho. I love journalist Linda Ellerbee's recipe for Pho. It's good anytime... In the winter, nothing beats a steaming bowl of Pho when the wind is howling outside and you've been shoveling or skiing and the snow is either making life miserable or a joy.  I love Pho in the spring -- and those other two seasons.  This lovely beef soup, with its spicy fragrant broth, stirs my soul.  In Vietnam Pho is often the breakfast of champions. The tender slices of beef, the basil, the sriracha hot sauce, the lemon grass and anise infused steam rising, filling my nose with delectable aromas.  Pho is a sublime experience, when it's done right.

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