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Art City Trolley - Springville

Motorcycle in its purest form – a bicycle with a motor duct-taped to it.

Over the weekend I found myself searching for a good restaurant in the Springville area, and my sister suggested Art City Trolley – a place that I had passed by many times before, but never once stopped to eat [...]

Sawadee Thai - Salt Lake City

Delicious Thai Sweet Tea

First Things First

Let me halfway apologize for my lack of posts over the last week.  As you may have guessed, it was finals time!  (That’s why it’s only a halfway apology – I have a damn good excuse).  The hot foods class has taught me a lot about classical cooking, and [...]

Culinary Journal - Cream of Asparagus Soup II

Cream of Asparagus version 2.0

Synopsis: Today we made a new cream of asparagus soup, with a nice change of seasoning.  Today’s soup is thickened with beurre manie, which is simply an uncooked roux.  (The term beurre manie means “kneaded butter” in French.)  It also has a helping of sauteed garlic, which adds some extra [...]

Culinary Journal – Roasted Red Pepper and Tomato Soup

Synopsis: Today my team made this smoky-sweet roasted pepper and tomato soup.  It is a little involved, but it makes a big impression!  Ideally, you should have a gas stove or a grill to roast the peppers.  If possible, I suggest doing it outside, since little black flakes of red pepper skin tend to fly [...]

Culinary Journal – Waste Not, Want Not

Soup to go, please

Synopsis: Today my team got an interesting challenge – make a soup to use up all of the spare vegetables and stock from the fridge.  This is something that every chef will face, whether in a professional kitchen or at home: the use-it-today-or-chuck-it dilemma.  How can you creatively incorporate new ingredients [...]