Category: FRANK
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A FRANK Tale: Side B
Photos in this blog appear courtesy of Christian Eggers, unless otherwise stated. It has been 1 year, 1 month, and 2 weeks since I blogged last. I’m lame. Actually, I’m just incredibly busy. FRANK’s momentum has skyrocketed (along with its popularity…we’ve got almost 8,000 people on our list now) and it has kept me so…
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Savory Goat and Wild Mushroom Hand Pies
Empanadas, pasties, hand pies, meat patties, clangers, sfhias, kreatopitas…little meat pockets surrounded completely in crust and small enough to fit in the hand are popular across the earth, from Natchitoches to Nigeria, and from Jamaica to Jaipur. We recently served these rustic goat hand pies at a FRANK dinner, to nearly rabid acclaim. The flavor…
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Cooking with Tobacco
As popular as tobacco is in this world, and has been for centuries, it’s a little strange to me that we don’t cook with it more often. Granted, I don’t smoke cigarettes (though I’ll enjoy the rare cigar or pipe on special occasions), but tobacco has a wonderful, deep, earthy, hay-like flavor which can be…
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Tobacco Chocolate Ice Cream
Tobacco is little-used in cooking, which is a shame, because it has a marvelous flavor. Tobacco contains nicotine, a stimulant that is deadly in the right dose, most folks shy away from cooking with it. But the National Institutes of Health has done plenty of research about nicotine toxicity, and I published an article that helps consolidate…
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Buttermilk Sweet Potato Ice Cream
At FRANK recently, we did an Americana menu, and needed to conceive an ice cream to go with our bourbon pecan pie. Chef Jennie suggested a sweet potato ice cream, but that just sounded too sweet to me. After all, pecan pie is very sweet, and to pair it with a super-sweet ice cream would…
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A FRANK Tale: Passion
(Most images in this post are courtesy of Stephanie M. Casey at Real Fine Food, a blogger who often attends our dinners to photograph and blast them onto social media. Find her on Facebook and Instagram also. Thanks, Stephanie!) FRANK has been getting an uncomfortable amount of press recently, and while we shouldn’t complain…(all the…
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A FRANK Tale: The Godfather
Photos in this blog appear courtesy of our friend Stephanie Casey at Real Fine Food. Follow her on Facebook and Instagram, also! With FRANK pulling in some crazy press recently (a Dallas Morning News article called us “The Best Restaurant in DFW” and Modern Luxury featured us with 3 other restaurants as “Best of the…
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FRANK is making waves!
We’ve been doing FRANK for nearly 3 years now, which sounds like a long time, but seems like practically nothing. All sorts of exciting things have happened in those 3 years, and we’ve churned through dozens of creative, interesting, and fun menus. We were filmed for the awesome TV series The Illegal Eater which has…
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A FRANK Tale: Americana
I’m making up for LOTS of lost time now that FRANK is on hiatus, as I haven’t blogged regularly since early summer! Things have been hectic, tons of travel, loads of cooking, and not nearly enough sleep… Most photos in this post appear courtesy of the amazing Stephanie Casey, who has a really cool blog…
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Chocolate Chili Pots de Creme
Makes 6 six-ounce servings, or 8 four-ounce servings. I’ve always been uneasy with the title “Pots de Creme,” probably because it sounds so pretentious. But it’s just French for “cream pot” so I don’t know why it bugs me so much. A pot de creme is a sort of intermediate step between pudding and custard. …