El Bulli is a restaurant located outside of Barcelona that is consistently ranked as one of the top 3 restaurants in the world.  I wasn’t able to get a reservation at El Bulli. However, just outside of Seville is the El Bulli Hotel (http://www.elbullihotel.com/benazuzaweb_eng.html) which has a restaurant that serves the all time best dishes [...]

A few months back the boys got together and we decided to try making a Bacon Explosion. We did two, one in the oven and one on a charcoal BBQ. Both turned out great. Here are the pictures.

I had some old bath tubs kicking around from house renovations and decided to make a smoker out of them. It worked surprisingly well.

“Matt, we had a bit of an accident with the wine.” This weekend I had dinner at O.Noir in Montreal and it was an experience to say the least. At O.Noir, you dine in complete darkness. I mean complete darkness. It isn’t dimly lit. Your eyes don’t eventually adjust. All you see is complete blackness [...]

For Thanksgiving I decided to try a little experiment with the potatoes and it worked out really well.  The end produce was excessively rich, but damn did it taste good. The recipe is pretty simple: Boil a dozen red potatoes for about 45 minutes Drain the potatoes, put them in the mixer and blend until [...]