RetiredChef

Real Name:

If I told you I would have to kill you

Location:

Beautiful Washington State

Blog:

http://If I stay on my boat I won't get water-blogged.

Best meal I ever ate:

Chili cheese dogs - after spending 14 days in a survival course eating only food that we could find in a desert, they were sublime.

My current drink of choice:

Fresh well water or Green Tea

I really wish I could:

Go to Antartica, not much dining but it's the only continent I haven't been to.

My "Go-to" dinner party dish:

OH DEAR – NEVER make the same dish twice – life is too short to waste on food re-runs.

My favorite comfort food:

Any fresh item from my garden or Wood grilled pizza's

My top 5 favorite restaurants:

SANTE’S Spokane, WA – Independent, European style farm to table restaurant where they butcher and cure their own meats. / CHEF MAVRO Honolulu, HI – Asian / French fusion (gawd I hate fusion) restaurant that actually works. The only restaurant in Hawaii that deserves 5 stars. / ROVER’S Seattle, WA – French cooking style using fresh Pacific NW ingredients, done exceptionally well. / PASCAL’S ON PONCE Coral Gables, FL – The best French in America. / THAI PLACE San Bernardino, CA – A little tiny hole in the wall serving the most authentic Thai food I have had outside of Thailand. Cheap and fantastic.

My most tattered cookbooks:

Don’t use cookbooks, most are haphazardly thrown together containing numerous errors in recipes. Besides they are out of date when they are printed, much better to keep up on current food trends by periodicals and eating out often.