January 11 2011
I made a double batch of restaurant style hot sauce yesterday. By “Restaurant Style” I mean a cooked hot sauce like they serve at my favorite Tex-Mex restaurant the Beltline Bar in Grand Rapids. I was never that into “Salsa”. They make a “Salsa” at the Beltline Bar but they call it the “mild” sauce. [...]
September 6 2010
As most of you have noticed I took a little hiatus form writing the Chef Benwa Cooks Blog. Well vacation is over, it back to work and work I will. The plan is to do two post a week. At least one recipe a week and some other post of interesting information or some other [...]
July 11 2010
Well it’s really only lasagna in the sense that it is layered like the lasagna. I made a version of this method for a pot-luck at my day job. The girls liked it so much they wanted the recipe. It is not really a recipe as such but more of a method. Today I am [...]
October 4 2009
Oh yeah! You heard me right, Reese’s Brownies, in a cupcake! They are just as good as you would think! I was Stumbling the web when I found The Crepes of Wrath blog which was doing an article about brownies with York Peppermint patties. Not being too fond of peppermint patties I thought of what [...]
January 25 2009
Here from the pages of the Chef Benwa Cooks blog is the Ultimate Super Bowl Sunday Menu. This is your one-stop-shop for some of the best food for Sunday’s big game. Lets just hope it a good one. Bookmarks
October 22 2008
Or a review of my eating experiences on my last trip to Las Vegas I took a couple of weeks off to go to the Vision Expo show in Las Vegas for my day job. I also had to catch up on some projects around the house. While in Las Vegas my dining experiences ran [...]
September 14 2008
The start of the NFL football season signals the start of the Unofficial Chicken Wing season. You can have them fried, baked, broiled, or grilled. I like them fried with a nice coating of a good Buffalo Wing sauce. I also really like them grilled after they’ve been marinated in a good, hot marinade. In [...]
April 29 2008
Here are my five favorite Food Network Shows. Nothing scientific about it, these are just the shows I really like. #5 Nigella Bites “Nigella Bites is part guide and part food confessional. Each episode is a total immersion in Nigella’s food life, focusing on the simple yet delicious food she cooks for herself, her family [...]
April 13 2008
I worked for many years at Gutherie’s Digs, a semi-casual restaurant that was located in Ramblewood Apartments. Ramblewood was a large “hip” complex that was the center for young professionals in the 70’s and 80’s. Here is a matchbook shows the artwork. One of the highlights of Gutherie’s Digs, besides the great artwork and the [...]
February 9 2008
I stumbled on to this marinade while trying to come up with some way to freshen up my usual chicken grilling treatments. You know barbecued, lemon butter, garlic butter etc., etc……… I stared out with Garlic Butter because it is one of my favorites. Then I said to myself, “what else do I really like?” [...]
