the votes are in!

congratualtions to everyone that participated.  dana is the number 1 stunna!  enjoy the movie tonight shawty!  but wait, there's more...shapowww! another pair of tickets are available to the runner up. the results were very close (1 point difference) and the judges favored DeLaCarolina (gooey crunch brownies). 

full and fair disclosure.  8 judges ranked the recipes in order of preference, awarding 3 points to the first recipe, 2 points to the second and 1 point to the third. here is how the voting panned out.

chessboxin' with scallops

when shawties want romance they watch the notebook.  when i need inspirations i check one of my cookbooks, ya dig.  i was gifted morimoto's new art of japanese cooking and decided to try a few new things with seafood.  scallops are fun and easy to work with so i decided to set it off and prepare them using two different techniques: seared and poached.  i'll write the recipe tomorrow but couldn't wait until the morning to post photos, so take a look and get an idea of what i'm working with here. ya'll are going to bug when you taste this...fo sho!

 

leg of lamb sample at eataly leads to leg o' lamb at the crib

we sampled the special of the day (leg of lamb) at eataly's carving station and shapowwww! our first eat this, cook that dish was conceived.  

the recipe will follow but i'm so excited about this leg o' lamb that i had to post the prep pictures for ya!

tell your friends to get with my friends and we can be friends

young sis told me yesterday that the blog title is limited and has no search engine optimization so i decided to look at the metrics.  the page views are not hot fire mon.  i rip and i rhyme.  i rhyme when i rip, so what's the hold up america?  i figured this would be a work in progress but damn.  so check it, i'm going to work on hooking you up with exclusive offers.  like for real.  don't ask me where, when, how but it's coming.  in the meantime, get your friends to visit the blog so that they can get entertained, get hooked, then we get sponsors.  ok? ok.

it's all about the food

timeout new yawk recently published a story profiling the best dishes at the best restaurants.  it's a perfect opportunity to start crushing some hot flava and show you how i do my thangalang.  the roasted rack of lamb with south african flavors at annisa sounds like a solid challenge and shawty loves lamb.  at the restaurant they want $34 for some spiced lamb with egg custard and sweet tamarind sauce.  ohhh hell naw!  i'm not even gonna front though, i have no idea what south african flavors mean so this project is going to require a little research. 

it's your burrrrrday

see you in the kitchen tanya...gucci is gonna do the dishes

oh snap!

eat it.  cook it.  blog it.  PRESTO.  this is the first post ever (not counting the test page ines set up for me) and i'm doing it while roasting some chicken ya'll.  unfortunately, tonight's dinner was not inspired by a previous meal so i can't really spit hot fire about how i hooked you up with a cheap/fast/tasty/dopeboymadness recipe that would normally cost you mad loot at the restaurant but i promise that will come shortly.  i just wanted to get this blizzog up and running.  feel me america?  it's going down.  check it!

you should smell this bird, it's still roasting as i type this.  but we have other tastiness going down in the kitchen.  here is ines hooking up some homemade creme brulee...

recipes etc. etc. etc. to follow. you're welcome!