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November 23, 2010
Thanksgiving Yams: Marshmallows Need Not Apply
Dave LiebermanThese are the sweet potatoes you are looking for.Canned yams glopped into a bowl, mashed around, then slopped into a baking dish, covered with corn syrup-laden candy and baked. This is a side dish? No. This is a scandal. It's very easy to make this side dish from scratch, and the ta ... More >>
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November 23, 2010
Now Where Is Dave Eating?
Dave LiebermanPretty it's not, but it's filling, very good, and cheap. Where's it from?One guess per comment, no Weeklings allowed to play, and first person to get it right gets a prize from the OC Weekly prize patrol!
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November 26, 2010
Comfort Food at El Pico de Gallo Taqueria
Dave LiebermanI'm sick of the word taquería. Seemingly every Mexican restaurant in these fair orange acres uses it to describe the food on offer, even when a place might better be described as a puesto, a fonda, a restaurante or a cenaduria. These shops do themselves a disservice, because while ... More >>
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November 30, 2010
Get Your Bukkake On In Fountain Valley
Dave LiebermanPrior to toppings...I have a confession to make. I only ate at O-Udon because I happened past their menu online and saw bukkake udon. I know what they meant, and it's a perfectly normal, non-perverted usage of the term, but the inner thirteen-year-old Mike Judge character in me ("ah ... More >>
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December 6, 2010
Frites From the Fresh Fries Truck Are Worthy, But...
Dave LiebermanThe concept of freshly-fried frites with a range of great dipping sauce is an elusive concept in the Southland. The beloved Benita's Frites couldn't survive, though people lined up for the product. Lately, Belgian-style fries made with care have started to come from food trucks; whe ... More >>
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December 7, 2010
Now Where Is Dave Eating?
Dave LiebermanYou know the rules: one guess per comment, no Weeklings allowed to guess, and the first to guess correctly (and provide a valid e-mail address in the comments) gets a nifty prize from the OC Weekly Prize Patrol.The poor-quality image above is one of the better lunch values in the co ... More >>
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December 9, 2010
Sol del Sur: Inventive Cuisine Hiding In San Juan Capistrano
Sol del Sur BistroSan Juan Capistrano, you've been holding out on us. About a month and a half ago, I polled the readership to find out what's new down in South Orange County. There were a surprising number of suggestions, but reader 1000steps mentioned a place in San Juan Capistrano called Sol d ... More >>
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December 22, 2010
Holiday Baking: Gingerbread Cupcakes
Dave LiebermanYep. It's supposed to look homemade, because it is.As I've said elsewhere, I think the cupcake craze is due for a market correction and if it weren't for bacon, it'd be the most annoying food fad of the last decade. That said, I have nothing against cupcakes themselves, and they're ... More >>
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December 27, 2010
Five New Years' Resolutions for Orange County Diners
Flickr user tinfoilraccoonNew Year's Day is coming. In the interest of the gastronomic improvement of our fair readership area, I offer the following set of suggested New Years' resolutions for the diners of Orange County.
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January 4, 2011
Serendipitous South County Bagels
Dave LiebermanDave LiebermanDuring some culinary exploration in South County last week, I pulled in to a ghastly new-OC type plaza on El Toro Road and smelled . . . bagels. Real bagels. Good bagels. I thought I'd been hallucinating because OC's bagel scene is pretty dire.
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January 7, 2011
Mall Food Court Turo-Turo: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Dave LiebermanI don't know why it never occurred to me that Filipino turo-turo ("point-point") food is a perfect fit for a mall food court. You almost never see Filipino food in malls, even though you see takes on Chinese, Japanese and Hawaiian.
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January 10, 2011
It Isn't What You Think It Is: Egg Cream
Dave LiebermanThe pride of New York's soda fountains, the egg cream, contains neither egg nor cream (despite what a woefully uninformed cook at Jerry's Famous Deli in Westwood tried to tell me 10 years ago).It is a chocolate-milk soda, and it is one of the most addicting drinks in the world.You t ... More >>
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January 11, 2011
Chomping the Chomp Chomp Truck
Dave LiebermanSingaporean food is not exactly commonplace in Orange County; there are exactly zero Singaporean restaurants here, and even Los Angeles is not teeming with stalls dishing up chilli crab, Hainan chicken rice and popiah. So it was exciting to hear of the Chomp Chomp truck, a new, O ... More >>
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January 12, 2011
Not Lasagna and Not Cannelloni: Lasagna Rolls
Dave LiebermanCannelloni are Italian crepes wrapped around savory fillings such as meat purée or spiced cheese, then laid in a pan and baked with sauce; lasagna is a casserole built like stacked enchiladas, with layers of meat and cheese.Combine them, and you have lasagna rolls, David Zinczenko ... More >>
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January 13, 2011
New Noodles: Battle Recently Opened Ramen
Flickr user camknowsCheap, cheap facsimile: reject this if financial straits allow!It's difficult to write about ramen because the simple dish of yellow noodles in broth is fetishized by its partisans; ramen arguably inspires more heated discussions than any other element of Japanese cuisine. It' ... More >>
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January 14, 2011
Signs of the Apocalypse: Bacon Salt for Vegetarians and Jews
Dave LiebermanA friend of mine gave me a jar of a product called "J&D's Bacon Salt." Initially, I had trouble figuring out what I was going to use it on. Eggs, certainly, and in gumbo or coq au vin.
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January 18, 2011
Where Is Dave Eating?
Dave LiebermanBehold the torta. Bread with some heft, beans, milanesa de res, lettuce, tomatoes, panela . . .. . . but where's it from? The fact that it's reasonably authentic Mexican tells you at once that it's not from Aliso Viejo or Yorba Linda. One guess per comment, no Weeklings allowed, and ... More >>
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January 24, 2011
The Tiny Kitchen Chronicles: Five Superfluous Tools (And What to Use Instead)
Flickr user stop_thatThe Anaheim outpost of OC Weekly's test kitchen is a tiny place, an apartment-style galley in which it's hard to fit even two people. To say that storage is at a premium is quite an understatement; tools are only permitted if there is no other way to accomplish a task.Origina ... More >>
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January 25, 2011
Get This In Your Belly: Coloradito de Puerco at El Moctezuma #2
Dave LiebermanI've been to El Moctezuma many times. I'm slowly working my way through its menu of Oaxacan specialities such as memelas; tlayudas; huge, banana-leaf-wrapped tamales; and of course plenty of moles.Until we took a visiting Marylander for Oaxacan food last week, I had never had the co ... More >>
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January 26, 2011
A Bit of 'French' Culture at Jax Donuts in Anaheim
Dave LiebermanJax Donuts in Anaheim has gotten more press than doughnut shops normally do because of Gustavo's writing about the coffee klatsch of men from his parents' home ranchos in Zacatecas who hang out there and sip and talk. They're very nice people, they tease my daughter and make her ... More >>
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February 3, 2011
At the Farmers' Market: Tangelos
Dave LiebermanIt's hard to try to explain citrus cultivars. "Oh, it's a cross between a tangerine and a pomelo." So is a Cara Cara orange. Citrus varieties seem to have no upper limit on number, but as humans have cross-bred trees, fruits have gotten better and better.Tangelos, then, are a tanger ... More >>
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July 4, 2011
Five Ways To Tell Which Dave Lieberman Is Which
Food NetworkDid you know there are two food people named Dave Lieberman? Only one looks like this... and it's not me.There's been somewhat of a rash of people lately asking me what happened in my career that I'm suddenly writing here. I was confused the first time or two, until I realized they th ... More >>
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July 13, 2011
What to Do With Carlsbad's Great Mussels
Dave LiebermanCarlsbad Aquafarm is a new addition to the Orange Farmers' Market on Saturday mornings, and a great resource for Orange County. They sell oysters, clams and mussels, farmed responsibly, with as much information as someone interested in sustainable seafood could want.Their mussels ar ... More >>
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July 28, 2011
Eat This Now: Biónico at Calacas Café
Dave LiebermanBlame the ugly photo on the photographer, not on the food.Oh, the biónico ("bee-OH-nee-koh"), the best dish from any Mexican fruit stand. It's assorted chopped fresh fruit, topped with a tangy sauce made from fresh crema agria (Mexican sour cream), shredded coconut, granola and rai ... More >>
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August 2, 2011
Where Did Dave Eat?
Dave LiebermanThis one might be a bit of a poseur. . . . These are flautas. Flautas aren't as common on menus as one would think they'd be, given they're pretty much Mexican egg rolls. Where'd I eat 'em?You all know the rules. First correct answer gets a prize; no Weeklings allowed to guess, and ... More >>
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August 3, 2011
Taking Back Pesto--Food Processors Be Damned
Dave LiebermanPesto. The word conjures up the 1980s, when seemingly every Italian restaurant in the United States discovered that there was more to dressing pasta than "meat or marinara?" Like so many foodie obsessions, it started out being made the traditional way, only to be subsumed by America ... More >>
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August 9, 2011
Cream Puffs at the Morsels Bakery Truck
Dave LiebermanIt looks like it's true. Cupcakes are dead. While cupcakes used to be the default--nay, the only--dessert option at the various clustertrucks that roam Orange County serving fancy food in low-brow settings, now it's getting harder to find mobile cupcakes.Whew.
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September 9, 2011
The Raw Milk Debate Rages On--But Is Raw Milk Worth Its Higher Cost?
Dave LiebermanIt seems not to be possible to have a reasoned discussion about raw milk. For such a minor part of people's everyday lives, it inspires bitter argument.Detractors of the raw milk movement, including pretty much every food safety organization you've ever heard of, say that food-borne ... More >>
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September 27, 2011
Eat This Now: Mabel's Pralines
Dave LiebermanI love New Orleans for many things. Everybody's got music in their heads, Creole cooking is immediately welcoming and comforting, and they invented one of my favorite drinks ever, the Sazerac.They're also the spiritual home of the praline, a sweet candy that's like rough brittle. I ... More >>
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November 10, 2011
Tustin Avenue's Hidden Chippie
Dave LiebermanWe're awash in great Vietnamese; Mexican food improves with every opening of a regional Mexican place determined to lift OC out of its carne asada rut; Chinese food has made Irvine, sleepy Irvine, a destination.But English? N . . . n . . . no. A bastion of fine, rough-hewn, stick-to ... More >>
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November 16, 2011
Recipe of the Week: Fun With Empanadas
Dave LiebermanLast week, I talked about how easy it was to make panisses, and the photo (taken with my old iPhone, yeah, yeah, haters gonna hate) had some empanadas in the background. Empanadas are, with about $10 worth of equipment you might not already own, the easiest appetizer to make.
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November 25, 2011
Mrs. Knott's Fried Chicken--Worth The Wait?
Dave LiebermanTwo hours. That was the wait the first time I tried to go to Mrs. Knott's Chicken Dinner Restaurant. The line stretched out the door, along the memorabilia, around the corner. All these people waiting for chicken? Even the takeout line was two dozen deep.And so it went. It'd be a hu ... More >>
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November 30, 2011
How to Make Your Own Vanilla Extract
Dave LiebermanWe've talked here at Stick a Fork In It about infusing your own liquors, which is fun, legal, and inebriating... but the same forces that can infuse celery seed into your vodka or dried chiles into your tequila reposado (which is really, REALLY good) can also save you a heapin' help ... More >>
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December 9, 2011
Los Chocolate Chip Cukis: The Best Toll House Variation Ever
Dave LiebermanQuick, what was the first cookie you ever made? If it wasn't a sugar cookie, I bet it was a Toll House chocolate-chip cookie. The famous recipe is printed on the back of the bags of chocolate chips and contains no weird ingredients or odd techniques.
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December 13, 2011
Si Roo Closes in Little Seoul
Dave LiebermanThe closure of an obscure food court eatery might not garner much interest, but Si Roo was unique in that it provided a set of Korean foods not found elsewhere in Orange County.
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December 16, 2011
Eating in the Horn of Africa: Abyssinia Ethiopian Cuisine
Dave LiebermanAnaheim is continuing its reputation as the most multicultural city in Orange County; it's hard to think of another city that is home to so many ethnic enclaves, from Middle Eastern to Samoan, from Korean to Mexican.One of the growing communities in West Anaheim is what I'll call Ho ... More >>
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December 19, 2011
Meet Soho Taco's 'Red Crack'
Dave LiebermanThere are a hell of a lot of salsas in Mexican cuisine; beyond the usual green salsa verde made with miltomates (tomatillos) and fresh chiles and the usual red salsa roja made with dried chiles, jitomates (tomatoes) and garlic, there's an array of smoky sauces and dips made from all ... More >>
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December 22, 2011
Excellent Sushi in Yorba Linda--Yes, Yorba Linda
Dave LiebermanOne of the best things about writing about food in Orange County is the discovery of something great in a really out-of-the-way place. If you'd asked me what there was to eat in Yorba Linda, I'd have stammered something about the Wild Artichoke and are you sure you can't get to Plac ... More >>
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January 3, 2012
Late-Night Caffeine Hounds Rejoice: The Night Owl is Open Late
Dave LiebermanI've always wanted to run into a busy, buzzing newsroom and shriek, "STOP THE PRESSES!" The problem is that (a) I write for a food blog, hardly an incubator for urgent, breaking news, (b) 90 percent of what I write is online and shouting, "Stop the blog software!" just doesn't have ... More >>
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January 10, 2012
Guess Where Dave Ate!
Dave LiebermanYep. It's a burger. Nothing escapes your eagle eyes, does it? Once upon a time, the presence of a fried egg atop a burger would have been the only clue you needed; while it's still not a common burger topping, I'll give you a hint: This is NOT at Slater's 50/50, but it's not far awa ... More >>
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January 11, 2012
Will Floral Park NIMBYers Stop the Santiago Creek Bike Trail Extension?
Courtesy of Santiago Creek Greenway AllianceClick for a larger image.See that map? It represents the new Santiago Creek Trail, which runs from the Orange County Water District Ponds near Cannon St. in Orange, all the way to the Santa Ana River--with one quarter-mile exception through Jack Fisher ... More >>
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January 12, 2012
The Toro Degollado, or Punching Yourself In the Liver With Capsaicin
Dave LiebermanTo the right is a picture of the cocktail I drank nearly every single night during the holidays. (On a related note, I may need to get over my horror of Bonobos or other stretchy-waist trousers.)I couldn't help it. I'm obsessed. I almost never drink cocktails with soda in them, but ... More >>
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January 16, 2012
Is Bella Pizza and Calzones at the Irvine Spectrum Actually Kosher?
Dave LiebermanWhy is Bella Pizza & Calzones at the Irvine Spectrum lying about being kosher?
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January 18, 2012
Chef Joe Youkhan's Tasting Spoon
Dave LiebermanStories of Joe Youkhan's arancini reached my ears long before his truck of many colors hit the road. I was invited to a couple of pre-launch events, but it was during a really busy period at work and I had my head buried in software design rather than in luxe lonchera launchesThe tr ... More >>
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January 20, 2012
Xodo Grill, New Brazilian Barbecue, To Open In Orange
Dave LiebermanLarge banners have gone up on a space in Orange that used to be an Italian restaurant advertising Xodó Grill, a churrascaria set to open in the next couple of months. A worker on the scene said the buildout was underway and the owners (whom he wouldn't name) were hoping to open in ... More >>
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January 20, 2012
Ten Great Bakeries in Orange County
Dave LiebermanPicket Lane Bakery @ Irvine/UCI Farmers Market... that ciabatta!Ten years ago, so-called food "pundits" predicted the demise of bakeries at the hands of the Atkins and South Beach diets. We rolled our eyes then, and we were right, because there's never been a better time to get bake ... More >>
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January 23, 2012
Jason Quinn Lets Everyone At Playground "Burn In Hell"
Dave LiebermanLast week, Jason Quinn's response to a Yelper who wrote a negative review of his Santa Ana restaurant, Playground, caused quite a scene. Chefs respond negatively to negative reviews (shocking!) all the type, but they don't normally tell people to burn in hell.When the proverbial fit ... More >>
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January 27, 2012
Checking In On Luigi's D'Italia Post-Kitchen Nightmares
Dave LiebermanIt's been about four months since Edwin reviewed the Ramsay-revamped Luigi's D'Italia in Anaheim and three months since the show aired on FOX. Gustavo went for the taping of the show itself; I went the following week, to see what they'd done to a restaurant that inspired one of two ... More >>
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January 31, 2012
Sabatino's Opens Second Sausage Store In Newport Beach
Dave LiebermanGood sausages take time to make, and apparently, so do good sausage shops. You may recall that we teased you about the prospect of the place two years ago. Now the second outlet of Sabatino's--the 20-year-old institution that has been supplying Newport Beach with its Sicil ... More >>
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February 13, 2012
Five Things I'd Like To Import From New Jersey and New York
Flickr user mpd01605I've been out for a while dealing with some family stuff on the East Coast--you know I'm not originally from Califas, right?--and while it was pretty draining stuff, I did still have to eat. While the town I grew up in has turned into a bougie commuter paradise (they've got a ... More >>
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