opinionatedchef

Real Name:

mindy;opinionatedchef@comcast.net

Location:

boston area

Blog:

http://www.cottonarboretum.com/

Best meal I ever ate:

In the last 10 yrs-Cafe Atlantico Mini Bar. Wash.D.C.; Long Ago and Far Away- Les Trois Marches, Versailles

My current drink of choice:

old vines cal. zin; cosmo w/ muddled cucumber and cilantro;

I really wish I could:

enjoy making pie dough; have a great Mexican restaurant right down the street; have a close relative in the foie gras and caviar business

My "Go-to" dinner party dish:

chicken lorenza

My favorite comfort food:

cream cheese mixed w/ tamari and ses sds, with sesame rice crackers

My top 5 favorite restaurants:

Boston area:Oleana, Cambridge; Neptune Oyster Bar in No.End; Island Creek Oyster Bar, Kenmore; Regina's in the North End only, Stone Hearth Pizza in Belmont; La Verdad Taqueria Cafe by Fenway Park- for fish tacos and carne asado tacos only; Sushi Island in Wakefield/// San Fran:Foreign Cinema for brunch;Yank Sing dim sum; Aziza,La Boulangerie(Bakery) on Pine; Cindy's Backstreet Kitchen in Napa

My most tattered cookbooks:

silv palate-2nd one- red cover; Cooking with the New American Chefs;