On The Back Burner

Foie Gras & French Onion -A Wonderful Late Night Dinner

John Paul Khoury,CCC — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 06:55:00 +0000

My buddy Josh Bieker and his wife Jade came over tonight for a little sumpin’ sumpin.
See that sumpin’ HERE!

Filed under: cooking, food Tagged: foie gras, French oinion soup

Another Fabulous Finals at the Napa Valley Cooking School

John Paul Khoury,CCC — Sat, 28 May 2011 06:06:53 +0000

We enjoyed the hard work of a fabulous finals which consisted of a coursed out meal prepared by students who were bound to externships at establishments like Gary Danko, L’Atelier Crenn, BENU, and La Toque to name a few. See Pics HERE!

Filed under: cooking, food, Uncategorized

Interviews With The Chefs!

John Paul Khoury,CCC — Wed, 11 May 2011 07:08:39 +0000

I write a regular Chef Interview blog for the company I work for. Here’s who we’ve interviewed recently:
http://preferredmeatsblog.com/featured-chef-2/

Filed under: cooking, food Tagged: chef interviews

Food Trucks Converge on the Capital

John Paul Khoury,CCC — Mon, 02 May 2011 22:24:40 +0000

Just a short note to say that those that don’t think Sacramento would support the food truck invasion take note: Last Saturday- two hour waits and trucks running out of food. Flashin’ back circa 1977- ‘Breaker one-9, peddles to the metal good buddy- looks like we got ourselves a convoy. Open the gates and let’em in. ‘Nuf’ said.

Filed under: cooking, food, humor Tagged: cuisine, food & beverage, food trucks, Sacramento

Lounge ON20 -Perhaps the most modern cuisine SacTown has ever seen

John Paul Khoury,CCC — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 08:12:05 +0000

With Lounge ON20 doing a major makeover of their dining room and concept there could have been no finer choice in their leap to a hep, sophisticated, progressive image than their choice of Chef Pajo Bruich who brings with him an ingredient driven cuisine that that is both modern and intelligent yet accessible utilizing familiar ingredients in innovative ways. Lounge ON20 opens this week and hopes to be the talk of the town for some time to come!

Filed under: cooking, food Tagged: Pajo Bruich, Sacramento dining, ultra lounges

Big Sacramento Food Forum Panel at The Bee

John Paul Khoury,CCC — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 07:52:19 +0000

Will you BEE there?

Tweeting from tomorrow’s ‘Table Talk’

Filed under: cooking, food Tagged: forum, Sacramento, Sacramento BEE

My Style

John Paul Khoury,CCC — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 06:18:59 +0000

My Style? I love dark roasted coffee and woodfired pizzas. I love aioli, cast iron, and French onion soup. Bottles of La Chasse du Pape, charred peppers and anchoide. Crusty bread, pistou, and eggs fried in olive oil, with sumac and crushed red peppers. Pate’ campagne, pigs trotters and sweetbreads grenobloise. Pasta arabiatta, bouillabasse with rouille, and carbonara. I can totally appreciate The French Laundry but home is smoke, fire, Dutch ovens and a table you can put your elbows on.

Filed under: cooking, food Tagged: French country, Italian, rustic cuisine

Do You YELP?

John Paul Khoury,CCC — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 08:36:26 +0000

Well, I have to admit that I just started yelping. I mean not like a wounded dog, that would be highly irregular especially for an adult human. I mean writing reviews on yelp.com. Now I must say I have not been a fan of yelp up to this point in as much as anyone can shoot off a review whether they ‘get it’ or not. But I’ve come to see at least there is a opinion and a pulse on what people perceive as being their cup of tea. It is good to look at the credentials of who is writing the review also- what I mean is this, is the person writing the restaurant review a chef, a foodie, a restaurateur? Or are they a gym teacher or a computer analyst that would yelp: ‘The French Laundry was was too expensive and I couldn’t even get a steak and baked potato’?

That aside, you can get some really good insights and worst case scenario perhaps a chuckle. So why not try yelping? But do so responsibly because the pen can turn into a sword so careful what battles you pick and make sure criticism is well founded! Hopefully my yelping is always in good taste seasoned with a smattering of humor and insightful,…and I’ll try and not come off like a wounded dog.

Filed under: cooking, food, humor Tagged: yelp

Aged Gouda & Chocolate?

John Paul Khoury,CCC — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 19:21:35 +0000

Well, our friend Jeremy in the cheese department at the local Nugget sampled us a very interesting combination that just transformed in the mouth. He said, ‘here, try this piece of aged Gouda’, and then right after that he gave me a piece of good Scharffen Berger chocolate. All of a sudden the cheese transformed into deep intense caramel and it was like eating a really good caramel filled chocolate bon bon. WOW!~ He explained it was the chocolate reacting with the aged lactose in the cheese giving it that caramel flavor. AMAZING! Try it.

Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: chesse, chocolate

Chef Eddie Roehr- An Interview With a Sacramentan

John Paul Khoury,CCC — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 20:50:35 +0000

In the mid 1980’s Eddie Roehr got a job washing pots and prepping in an upscale seafood restaurant in his hometown of Sacramento, CA. That began his love of cooking and the restaurant business that has spanned some 25 years and taken him to Italy, California’s Central Coast, and Hawaii. Now back in his hometown, Eddie, with his wife Janel, has opened a restaurant that defines what Sacramento cuisine represents to him and named it after a local bird, the magpie.
READ ON

Filed under: cooking, food Tagged: Chef Interview, cooking, Sacramento cuisine