There is a new collaborative food website out here that is featuring some of the best food bloggers - bringing together a star-studded group of contributors to this new concept…

Orange County will be EXTENDING their first ever Restaurant Week until Saturday, March 7 giving the opportunity for OC residents to take advantage of this event…

Orange County will be hosting their first ever Restaurant Week! Starting this Sunday, February 22, over 80 restaurants throughout Orange County will be offering Prix Fixe menus for $20, $30 or $40. Restuarant Week goes thru Saturday, February 28…

Looks like some places are offering free food or discounts if you hit the polls tomorrow. Vendors such as Starbucks, Krispy Kreme, Pizza Hut, Ben & Jerry’s and the Daily Grill will be making the offers, hoping to get voters to the polls, but more importantly, into their restaurants…

The Food Network has been airing a new reality TV show these last few weeks. There are no contestants that get voted out of the kitchen or have to cook a gourmet meal in 10 minutes. There are no on-camera tests or judges to test your culinary knowledge…

A food blog is probably one of the last place you’d see a blog posting about voting. The upcoming election has many meausres, propositions beyond the Presidential Election…

If you are a true food adventurer, then you know that sometimes a little hole in the wall can be a find. Today we went to a little place in Santa Ana called Lindo Michoacan. It literally is hole in the wall but has authentic mexican food, all made by hand…

The Seafood Watch organization at the Monterrey Bay Aquarium has been putting out a guide of Endangered Fish species and recommendations for more sustainable seafood choices for the last several years. This year they will expand their guide with a new guide to include sustainable Sushi choices…

Today, I drove us to Quail Hill in Irvine. We decided we were going to the Chinese place next to Lucca’s Cafe and Market, Crystal Jade. During our meals at Lucca’s I always noticed the amount of people walking into Crystal Jade. Now it was our turn…

I love Dim Sum - there is no doubt about it. Tonight I decided I was going to attempt to make Shiu Mai, Pork Dumplings…

Today for lunch I tried another new place. My co-worker was feeling like KFC and in that same shopping center was Haute Links. HL’s slogan is “Sausage That’s Probably Healthier Than You Are”. They serve gourmet sausages that are made here in California. You can even buy fresh sausage that you can take home and cook yourself…

While perusing thru the Irvine Spectrum Directory last week to see where Sur La Table will be opening their newest store, I saw that The Veggie Grill, will be opening a location in the Spectrum…

I drove by the Irvine Spectrum on Saturday and took a couple of pictures of the new Sur La Table. As I posted earlier, the store is scheduled to open on November 14. The windows were still covered over as of this post update…

I was at lunch taking pictures today and was asked by the staff why I was taking photos. I explained that I was a food blogger and documenting my meal. I thought maybe it would be good to have a contact card to hand out. I came up with three designs. Which do you like?

So today for lunch, my boss Arshy and co-worker Hop went to a small Indian Market where they serve food as well. Another co-worker brought in their Canon EOS xTI D350 camera. This is a nice camera…

Carla Hall is one of the most fun, dynamic, people persons I know. Carla and I met when I worked at Sur La Table and she was one of my chefs and instructors. Carla really cares about food from all angles, from history, taste and presentation to how her guests react to her food…

Today my friend Tara came with me as we were also testing cameras. We took three sets of pictures. I was going to post the pics, but clearly there was one winner and it the one that I feel has “depth”. I’ll go ahead and post the iPhone pics as well. Our third camera was a Nikon L3, what I call my digital instamatic. All the pics I took with that camera were blurry…

Sur La Table will be opening a location in the former location of the Sharper Image at the Irvine Spectrum. November 14th is the opening date and I will be the first in line that morning!!

UPDATE: 10/7/08

Screw the other blogs (no, not really…I really like them!). This is about me! This is my adventure in food in how MY eyes see it. I should aspire to become a food blog like the ones I saw last nite. For now, I’ll just keep doing what I’m doing and if people like what they see and read, they will come! Sorry for the outburst last nite, it was late and I was cranky. Yes, I’m a human being. Thanks for your support!

Need a new chef’s knife or maybe a new cleaver?? Wüsthof Gourmet Knives are on sale now at Sur La Table, Crate and Barrel and Cooking.com. Each vendor seems to be offering different pieces that are on sale - for instance Cooking.com has the Santoku for $43.95 on sale versus Sur La Table who has it on sale for $49.95…

The market opens at 8:00 am so I left at 7:45 this morning. Skies were mostly cloudy but you could catch a glimpse of blue here and there. While there are several farmers’ markets in the area, Irvine is host to one of the largest in Orange County. In addition to the various farmers and purveyors in the area, the market is host to vendors that sell dairy, breads and even seafood…

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law today that will require restaurants with 20 locations or more to list the calorie count and nutritional information for all their foods starting July 1, 2009.