Tue Mar 5, 2013
My frequent trips to the chain restaurant capital that is Houston, Texas, inevitably has me dining at these shrines to American food culture fairly often. Growing up in suburbia, I admit to having a lingering nostalgia for chain restaurants, unfortunately those memories rarely seem to hold up when I revisit these restaurants as an adult—the dishes all seem to fall three or four adjectives short of their descriptions. There is one exception to this, a restaurant that wasn't part of my youth, but now is so ingrained into my personal history that I make a point of visiting every time I'm down South—Papiasito's Cantina. I'm usually in for the addictive salty chips with thin salsa and a platter of sizzling skirt steak fajitas served alongside lard-laden flour tortillas, but I've also found they make one of the few shrimp dishes (I'm not a shrimp fan) I really enjoy in the form a shrimp brochette.
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Wed Sep 5, 2012
It was around this time last year, in the looming threat of a hurricane, we rushed together a special send-off Meatwave for the two greatest Meatwavers of all time, Lindsay and Brandon. While they've been sorely missed this season, they couldn't resist the draw of the meat and returned over this past holiday weekend to get their meat on. Their homecoming had me reminiscing about that final goodbye Meatwave last year (one of the best ever), and I thought it only right to feature one of the recipes from that night, this Vietnamese-inspired stuffed sea bass.
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Tue Apr 3, 2012
I just realized that I have one day left of Lent to get in a fish recipe—although I've effectively missed every Friday by now. Not surprising that this fell of my radar since a) I'm not Catholic, b) I probably wouldn't give up meat if I were, and c) even if I did give up meat for a day, I probably wouldn't turn to fish. Never-the-less, I've had this planked flounder with a cilantro-lime butter in the reserves for just such an occasion as now, and this just happens to be one of the few fish dishes I've made that I actually found my seafood-averse self enjoying.
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Fri Aug 29, 2008
I'm not sure if it's a mystery, but in case you don't know already, I do not like seafood. I'm on a quest to stomp out all of my annoying food aversions—making great strides in most—but seafood is a pesky one that doesn't seem to want to go away. I've come to tolerate some fried variations (calamari and fish and chips), but beyond that, my taste buds are not having any of it. Deep down I do want to be a seafood eater, so I thought the best way to get my feet wet was to take this dislike straight to the grill.
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