My new favorite restaurant. Great tapas and sangria, terrific service with an atmosphere and decor that’s pure genius. Tapas are $3.50 – $5, main courses in the $12 – $15 range. LF and I started with an assortment of the former, a couple different kinds of empanadas, a beef-and-potato hash with plantains, and something amazing…
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I’m a pretty solid cook, if I do say so myself. But this one flummoxed me. Any ideas?
Leave a CommentWhile E. and I were hiking on Watchung Reservation this afternoon, we found the foundations of an abandoned building, and lying nearby in plain sight this souvenir. 
Paella has been a staple in the cafeteria here at tom-mcgee.com world headquarters for over twenty years. Our crack team of chefs has prepared it more ways than you can think of, and has it pretty much down to a science. But the other week when the Times ran a recipe for grilled paella, they…
Leave a CommentWhen you watch an interview with David Lynch it’s always surprising how totally normal he seems. Once you get past the hipster hair style he’s got this unpretentious gee-whiz enthusiasm about things. Did you know he’s a vegan, or at least a vegetarian? He shows us how to make quinoa (pronounced kin-WAH) with organic broccoli,…
24 CommentsCooked some rocking good steaks last night. Here’s the Method…
1 CommentI made this last weekend to bring to a party, and from start to on-my-way-out-the-door was under an hour. And that’s including the fairly tedious carved-out tomatoes business. 
We all have our comfort food vices. When I’m at home alone I enjoy making fish soup. Go figure. No one else in the household appreciates it, so I treat it like a guilty pleasure. One of my favorite cookbooks is “A Tuscan In The Kitchen.” The author’s recipes don’t have measurements, temperatures or timings.…
Leave a CommentBack when I started cooking, I used to try to make bread. The recipes I tried were a tremendously time-consuming, labor-intensive struggle against the ingredients, and I never quite won. Thanks to the NY Times’ Minimalist column last Wednesday, I found a winner.
Newark has always been the place to go for good Spanish and Portuguese food, and NJPAC is a terrific concert hall. But there are other omens and portends in the air indicating that Newark may finally be turning a corner. Since any omens worth their salt come in threes, here are the ones I’ve seen:…
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