Michelle | October 21, 2009
Last year, I was lucky enough to be asked to judge the 2nd annual Cruising To A Cure’s Tampa Bay’s Top Chef Challenge. Three local chefs prepared signature dishes all onboard the Holland America cruise ship to raise money for St. Joesph’s Children Cancer Center. Yeah, rough to be me, right?
It was my job to [...]
Greg | October 19, 2009
The Sherpas are big fans of breakfast on our days off. Do not, under any circumstances, take that to mean that we are big fans of cooking breakfast on our days off. We wake up every day of the workweek and go to someone’s house to cook. Why would we possibly want to do that [...]
Michelle | September 30, 2009
Every chef since the dawn of, um, chefdom has been inspired by something in real life when he/ she created that amazing, mouthwatering dish.
Some chefs have been inspired by watching birds feast on sea life, while others inspired by what could be found on the woodland floor, and for others, the simplicity of eating an [...]
Greg | September 24, 2009
You’re watching one of the many cooking competition reality shows on TV and the camera passes a contestant with a lovely, caramelized piece of meat, spooning butter over the top and you wonder “why doesn’t my meat look like that when I sauté it?” The answer is – because they aren’t sautéing – they are [...]
Greg | July 7, 2009
I’m going to let you in on a secret – a big one: how chefs make food taste good.
Sure, there’s technique and experience involved, but there’s a key that even a novice can put to use right now and I’m going to reveal that tidbit of information.
Let’s take a look at a really simple dish, [...]
Greg | May 31, 2009
When we were approached by our friend Colette Eddy, owner of Aerial Innovations Photography and Gallery, to cater a recession-proof luncheon to celebrate her companies 22nd year, we had our suspicions.
“We’ll have the staff bring their own dinnerware set!” exclaimed Colette, “It’ll be great! Who needs the Ritz!” she went on to say, “This is [...]
Greg | May 11, 2009
Before there were chefs like Thomas Keller, Daniel Boulud or Alice Waters, there was one chef whose name rang synonymous with classic French cooking, Auguste Escoffier.
Michelle | May 8, 2009
If you have never been to Council Oak Steak and Seafood inside of the Seminole Hard Rock Casino, you should go. Not only is it inside of an adult Disney Land, but it is also spectacularly beautiful and spectacularly delicious. If you live in Vegas, Tampa’s Hard Rock Casino is probably weak, but it is [...]
Michelle | April 19, 2009
If at this time last year, someone were to have told us that we’d be writing about banana cream pie, that person would have been rewarded with snobbish sneers, derisive snorts of laughter, and a quick kick to the groin. But, here we stand, with a big plate of humble pie - or rather banana [...]
Michelle | April 3, 2009
Consider for a moment the humble potato. It’s become so much a staple of the Western diet that it is hard to believe the potato has only had it’s place here for a few hundred years.
Originally cultivated in the Andes as early as the 6th century BC, where a single valley might be home to [...]
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