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Main Dish Recipes

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2010

    Love On It: Blythe Beck's Chicken and Waffles

    ​One of the goodies on executive chef Blythe Beck's brand new fall menu at Central 214 is the Southern fave chicken and waffles. Luckily, this is no State Fair version. With its jalapeno gravy, it's more like South meets Southwest. (For this week's profile of Beck, click here. For a Q&A, click ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2010

    Loft 610's Tre Wilcox's Got Legs
    And Knows How to Use Them

    ​In part three of our look at Loft 610's executive chef Tre Wilcox, the chef shares his recipe for the Triple C -- Crispy Confit Chicken. He says it's the duck fat and the time the chicken spends in it that makes it so special. Not to mention that duck is the usual suspect when it comes to con ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2010

    Craft Dresses Up Menu with a Charity Favorite; Tom Colicchio May Return

    Chef Jeff Harris' cavatelli, version 1.0, before it was dressed up with duck and foie gras.​Charitable contributions aren't the only good thing emerging from the bushel of culinary benefits being held this month. Chef Jeff Harris last weekend created a duck cavetelli with Swiss chard and foie ... More >>

  • Dining

    November 18, 2010

    Nosh: Avner Samuel's Latest Is Fine, Affordable and a Touch Too Friendly.

    Chef Jeff Harris' cavatelli, version 1.0, before it was dressed up with duck and foie gras.​Charitable contributions aren't the only good thing emerging from the bushel of culinary benefits being held this month. Chef Jeff Harris last weekend created a duck cavetelli with Swiss chard and foie ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2010

    Casey Thompson's Pasta With Grass-fed Beef: Maybe it's Time to Rethink That Holiday Turkey

    ​In the third part of our visit with Casey Thompson, Top Chef star, former executive chef at Shinsei and current chef at Fort Worth's Brownstone, Thompson shares a recipe for a beefy pasta dish. For parts 1 and 2 of our interview with Thompson, go here and here. Pasta and Grass-fed Beef

  • Dining

    November 25, 2010

    Bambu: This Friendly, Authentic Thai Spot Gets a Kiss on the Cheek.

    ​In the third part of our visit with Casey Thompson, Top Chef star, former executive chef at Shinsei and current chef at Fort Worth's Brownstone, Thompson shares a recipe for a beefy pasta dish. For parts 1 and 2 of our interview with Thompson, go here and here. Pasta and Grass-fed Beef

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2010

    Ming's Place: Great Fried Rice in the Heart
    Of a Tex-Mex Zone

    ​A couple of weeks ago, on an otherwise familiar route home from the gym, an unfamiliar sign caught my eye. There, next to the Potbelly and Starbucks on the corner of Lemmon Avenue and Inwood Road, was a Grand Opening sign for Ming's Place China Bistro. Hmm... While I will admit that a high ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2010

    La Duni's Julia Lopez Offers a Simple, Impressive Chicken Salad

    Julia Lopez​In part one of last week's Three Course Meal, we gave you a look at Julia Lopez, corporate chef at La Duni. In part two, we asked Lopez to complete our thoughts for us. In today's final installment -- delayed by an editor's glitch -- she shares a recipe for one of her fave salads, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2010

    Merry Xmas Cardiologists! First Bacon Cookies, Now Sausage Balls

    Brooke NottinghamBalls of cheesy pork goodness​Sausage balls are charming. I find something delightfully underdog-ish about a pan loaded with tasty snacks that bake up to smell so good but look like clumps of dirt. There's nothing particularly Christmas-y about these little nuggets, but I ass ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2010

    The 10 Crazy Fast Food and Chain Restaurant Releases of 2010

    KFCIt's real, oh GOD, it's real.​On April 12, 2010 a new product was released by KFC. It began as an April Fools' Day press release. A joke, people thought, it must be a joke. The nation denied its existence. Then the billboards came, and somewhere, deep into the bowels of YouTube, a commerc ... More >>

  • Dining

    December 16, 2010

    Home On La Grange: Where Service and Drinks Almost Make Up for the Food.

    KFCIt's real, oh GOD, it's real.​On April 12, 2010 a new product was released by KFC. It began as an April Fools' Day press release. A joke, people thought, it must be a joke. The nation denied its existence. Then the billboards came, and somewhere, deep into the bowels of YouTube, a commerc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2010

    Leave the Bird, Bring the Pig: A Family Recipe for Pernil

    ​Whereas other families might have a Christmas turkey or goose, Puerto Rican families such as my own eat pork for their holiday meal. The meal -- actually a night-long party called Nochebuena -- is held on Christmas Eve and involves music, dancing, coquito (Puerto Rican eggnog), pitorro (Pue ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2010

    Technically, If You Eat Taco Bell At Brunch Time, That Means It's Brunch.

    Photo by Man O' The HourOur Taco Bell brunch pile included: two Beef Baja Gorditas, a Double Decker Taco, a Chicken Burrito and a Beefy 5-Layer Burrito.​These things went into my belly on Saturday night: apple cider bourbon toddies topped with whiskey whipped cream. Mulled wine. Absinthe. Old Fash ... More >>

  • Dining

    December 23, 2010

    One2One: You Can't Please Everyone.

    Photo by Man O' The HourOur Taco Bell brunch pile included: two Beef Baja Gorditas, a Double Decker Taco, a Chicken Burrito and a Beefy 5-Layer Burrito.​These things went into my belly on Saturday night: apple cider bourbon toddies topped with whiskey whipped cream. Mulled wine. Absinthe. Old Fash ... More >>

  • Dining

    January 27, 2011

    Brownstone: Those Wintertime Blues are Lifted by Brussels Sprouts.

    Photo by Man O' The HourOur Taco Bell brunch pile included: two Beef Baja Gorditas, a Double Decker Taco, a Chicken Burrito and a Beefy 5-Layer Burrito.​These things went into my belly on Saturday night: apple cider bourbon toddies topped with whiskey whipped cream. Mulled wine. Absinthe. Old Fash ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2011

    Nonna's Julian Barsotti Serves Up an Easy Recipe for Fussilli alla Gricia

    ​In part one of this week's Three Course Meal, we gave you a look at Julian Barsotti, owner and executive chef of Nonna. In part two, we asked Barsotti to complete our thoughts for us. In today's final installment he shares a recipe for Fussilli alla Gricia. Barsotti says, it's "one of the wo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2011

    DiGiorno Pizza & Cookies Coming to a Store Near You

    DiGiornoIt's not delivery. It's not anything else, either.​According to DiGiorno's Official Facebook page, the frozen pizza chain is about to launch new, yep-these-are-real products: Pizza & Cookies and Pizza & Boneless "Wyngz*." Fascinating! It's a good thing they went with the mind-blowi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2011

    It's Game Day at Big Daddy's House

    Aaron McCargo Jr.​Everything about Aaron McCargo Jr. -- a.k.a. Big Daddy of Big Daddy's House -- is larger-than-life, from those dueling, glimmering earrings to the ingratiating grin as wide as the Rio Grande to that infectious laugh that serves as constant exclamation point to every brashly f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2011

    Cibus Brings Brunch To The Mall

    Photos by Andrea Grimes and Man O' The HourThe Cibus Benedict features creamy Parmesan sauce and, supposedly, crab.​Sunday morning, as downtown restaurants were brimming with Super Bowl brunchers, the Man O' The Hour and I headed north into the sweet, consumerist bosom of North Park Center. There, ... More >>

  • Dining

    February 10, 2011

    With a Name Like Whiskey Cake, It's No Surprise We Like It.

    Photos by Andrea Grimes and Man O' The HourThe Cibus Benedict features creamy Parmesan sauce and, supposedly, crab.​Sunday morning, as downtown restaurants were brimming with Super Bowl brunchers, the Man O' The Hour and I headed north into the sweet, consumerist bosom of North Park Center. There, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2011

    Urban Crust Shares Its Signature Pizza Recipe

    ​In part one of this week's Three Course Meal, we gave you a look at Salvatore Gisellu, executive chef at Urban Crust. In part two, we asked Gusellu to complete our thoughts for us. In today's final installment he shares a recipe for Black and Blue Pizza. Now, it won't be exactly the same as ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2011

    Cookbook Author Speeds Up Southern Cooking

    There are recipes for okra fritters, blackened catfish and benne wafers in Rebecca Lang's new cookbook, but there's not a word about fried chicken. ​"I'm really sad fried chicken is not in the book," says Lang, who will be demonstrating recipes from Quick-Fix Southern: Homemade Hospitality in 30 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2011

    Gefilte at Sea Breeze Shouldn't be Passed Over

    ​Shama lama ding dong! It's Passover time again. North Texas Jewish families who are preparing for the holiday, which begins Monday at sundown, will sit down for a ceremonial Seder dinner that is full of symbolism. Unfortunately for many, that means jarred gefilte. These spam-like fish balls a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2011

    Yosef Schwartz and George Shepherd, Stars of the Fresh Diet, Share Recipes With City of Ate

    Mushroom Crowns Filled with Pesto Chicken​In part one of this week's Three Course Meal, we shared a profile of Executive Chef and Chief Culinary Officer of The Fresh Diet, Yosef Schwartz, as well as a short bit about Dallas head chef of The Fresh Diet George Shepherd. In part two, we asked Sch ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2011

    1974 Schlitz Malt Liquor Recipes For Drinking And Dining

    Spice up your next swingin' key party with a tray of Schlitz "Malt Twisters" and a table full of Schlitz-marinated pork.​Lady Hophead visited an estate sale on our street recently and picked up what has to be the greatest, most hilarious example of misguided beer marketing I have ever seen: a 1974 ... More >>

  • Dining

    May 12, 2011

    Clear Fork Station: A Cowboy Oasis

    Worth a stop if you're in the neighborhood.

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2011

    Some Food Tips for When You're Dumb Enough to Camp

    www.tjhtees.com/tshirt/camping-sucks-tshirtsYes. Yes it does.​With summer here, inevitably someone is going to suggest I give up the burden of air conditioning, properly prepared food, washed hair and a comfy mattress to enjoy the pleasures of sleeping on dirt, swatting mosquitoes and eating u ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2011

    Jennie Kelley's Different Kind of Spree

    FoxPolyphonic Spree member Jennie Kelley competes on MasterChef.​Jennie Kelley may possess no more or less an unusual background as preparation for being one of the latest contestants to face the kitchen fire of notable British hothead, Gordon Ramsay on his second season of the MasterChef seri ... More >>

  • Dining

    June 16, 2011

    Company Cafe: Healthy Food Can Be Good. Who Knew?

    Try some local, organic, gluten-free food without a 'tude.

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2011

    Walking the Wok at Asian-American's Birthplace

    Kristy YangR&G Lounge's humongous Dungeness crab. We'd hate to see the one that got away.​(Here's part two of travelin' woman Kristy Yang's Walk the Really Long Wok from the Bay Area. Coming up shortly, something about Asian food closer to home. Check out last week's California Wok here.) San ... More >>

  • Dining

    July 28, 2011

    Mesa: Bringing Veracruz to Oak Cliff

    Mesa's rustic version of Mexico doesn't bring the heat, but it stays true to its roots.

  • Dining

    September 1, 2011

    The Grape is Stuck in the Past, Right Where it Belongs

    Compared to modern bistros, The Grape's menu and dining room seem dated. That's why it works so well.

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2011

    Winspear Opera House's Petite Sandwich Redefines "Petite." And "Sandwich."

    ​Last night the Winspear Opera House played host to Kathleen Edwards, a Canadian folk and country singer, and Bon Iver. The opera house, a marvel of modern architectural and sound design, makes for a life-shifting experience when the music is good. I wish I could say the same for the food a ... More >>

  • Dining

    September 15, 2011
  • Blogs

    September 28, 2011

    Thoughts On Chicken-Fried Steak and This Week's Review: Tillman's Roadhouse

    Sara KerensChicken-fried food porn.​You can't put lipstick on a pig. Well I suppose you could, but then we'd have another set of issues to discuss. At any rate, this is the phrase that jumped into my head when I tore into the chicken-fried steak at Tillman's Roadhouse a few weeks ago. The kit ... More >>

  • Dining

    September 29, 2011

    At Tillman's Roadhouse, Big Crowds and Bigger Portions

    After changes and a tragedy, an old Oak Cliff favorite presses on.

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2011

    The Reuben at Coppell Deli: Taking You Back to the Glory Days

    ​Each week, Justin Bitner goes hunting for DFW's most interesting sandwiches. Have a sandwich suggestion? Leave it in the comments and he'll check it out. Venue: Coppell Deli The Sandwich: The Reuben ($6.29) Bread: Ever so delicately toasted Rye Toppings: Corned beef, sauerkraut, Swiss ch ... More >>

  • Dining

    October 20, 2011

    Conquering Marrakesh with the Baboush's Condiment Kings

    From the guys who brought you Medina, a new menu and a new neighborhood show a different side of Morocco.

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2011

    God's Gift To Pizza Pie: The Egg

    Flickr​Early Phoenicians believed that a primeval egg split open to form heaven and earth; I believe eggs were created for pizza. Peperoni? That's a topping made in America. You won't see it in Italy anywhere. Some thinly-shaved ham is nice. I like basil and cheese, too. But a lightly cooked e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2011

    Dallas' Five Best Dishes To Eat In Front of Vegetarians

    ​Everyone's got the right to make their own decisions when it comes to food choices, so why not take the opportunity to show all your vegetarian friends that you made the right one by eating Dallas' most hedonistic protein dishes. Don't just eat meat but gorge on all the delicious animal parts ... More >>

  • Dining

    November 17, 2011

    Choose Wisely and Drink Freely at SWIG

    Come for the booze, stay for the booze at Henderson Avenue's latest.

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2011

    Here's Hoping Grandma Doesn't Mind if I Dallas Up Her Stuffing Recipe

    Turkey Stuffing -- Vermont? ​Seven days. I've got seven days till the greatest holiday of all time commences, and I haven't done a thing to prepare. Once an avid home cook, I've prepared, no exaggeration, one meal since I moved here in July. A bowl of steel cut oatmeal, laced with sweet Texa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2011

    Bird versus Bird: A Farm and Factory Showdown.

    Heritage Turkey​In college I had to take a communications class, which involved giving a persuasive speech. Luckily, I don't remember mine. But, I'll never forget the girl who persuaded us not to eat chicken. It worked. She did a standing ovation-worthy physical interpretation of a chicken wit ... More >>

  • Dining

    December 1, 2011

    Bistro 31 Sets Highland Park Buzzing

    Simple Mediterranean-inspired plates designed for Park Cities palates.

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2011

    El Tizoncito Makes a Pretty Mean Meatsicle

    Choriqueso is not pretty, but it's pretty tasty.​My taco post about El Si Hay earned me some shit. A few commenters said those tacos are trash. They called me a gringo. Get yourself to El Tizoncito, one said. Another agreed. Next thing you know, I'm sitting in a silver minivan with another Ater, t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2011

    With Housemade Sauerkraut, Bolsa Mercado Just Might Save My New Year's Day

    Flickr​I am made of of considerable German stock -- my father was a Reitz, and my mother was a Schuster. But for whatever reason this heritage did not make it to my dinner table. We ate like the rest of America while I grew up. The only time our table was graced with anything remotely German ... More >>

  • Dining

    December 29, 2011

    At Zio Cecio, Priced Out Until the Pasta

    High-priced dishes obscure the cooking at Zio Cecio -- until the pasta comes.

  • Dining

    January 19, 2012

    Campo is One of Dallas' Best Restaurants -- For Now

    Oak Cliff has one of the city's most daring restaurants. But will the chef stay put?

  • Dining

    January 26, 2012

    From Mi Cocina to Mr. Mesero: Mico Rodriguez's Comeback

    The founder of Mi Cocina is back, and his new place feels like home.

  • Dining

    February 2, 2012
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