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10 Dishes You Need To Be Eating // TRACE, Chobani, Papi Tino’s

1. Grilled blackened redfish with fried green tomatoes, pickles and smoked chili ranch. Loving the lunch on-the-fly, only $16 for a soup, salad & sandwich // TRACE 2. Smoked beef brisket with melted cheddar, crispy fried onions and cabbage slaw // TRACE 3. Meyer lemon budino by Executive Pastry Chef Janina O’Leary // TRACE 4. Chicken salad with strawberries, candied pecans and arugula // TRACE 5. I’m going to call this fried...

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10 Dishes You Need To Be Eating // Backspace, Olive & June, The Carillon

1. Buttermilk panna cotta, blueberry thyme compote, almond soil, thyme crema, blueberry glass, hyssop with blueberry sorbeto. // Olive and June 2. Citrus torta, blackberry ginger marmelata, biscoto crumble, poached blackberry, meringue, torn mint, limoncello sorbeto. // Olive and June 3. Farm greens with giardiniera, red onion, herbs and pecorino romano. Flavorful salad without any dressing // Backspace 4. Spicy cauliflower, capers, calabrese with lemon // Backspace 5. Bianca pizza with...

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10 Things I Love and Ate

1. Soft boiled eggs for oxtail soup ramen // Ramen Tatsuya 2. Polenta benedict with prosciutto di parma, poached eggs blanketed with hollandaise sauce (Loved this!) // Winflo Osteria 3. Bloody Mary, extra spicy // Winflo Osteria 4. Espresso  // Winflo Osteria 5. Salami Panino with crispy genoa salami, fried egg, shaved red onion, arugula between a challah bun // Winflo Osteria 6. Brunch at Winflo with A Taste of Dawn 7. Food art by Chef Joaquin...

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Honey Cupcakes with Mascarpone Frosting and Caramelized Figs

Friday afternoon had me knee-deep in cupcake batter and a bowl of fluffy frosting that was just coaxing at me to devour. The kitchen was covered with a light dusting of cake flour and my hands smelled like butter and honey, which is like the ambrosial nectar of the gods. It’s been a while since I’ve baked cupcakes, baked anything in fact. With soft Yiruma music playing in the background, I started dipping halved figs in sugar and caramelizing them with a blowtorch. It’s almost relaxing. The sugar slowly bubbles...

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10 Dishes You Need To Be Eating // TRACE, Chobani, Papi Tino’s

Austin, Food porn - by Jane Ko | Posted on May 24, 2013
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1. Grilled blackened redfish with fried green tomatoes, pickles and smoked chili...

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Mediterranean with a Southern Flair at Zoes Kitchen

Austin, Restaurant review - by Jane Ko | Posted on May 22, 2013
steak kabobs, shrimp kabobs, veggie kabobs

It’s Mediterranean food with a little Southern flair added in. At least that’s how the manager at the Austin Arboretum described the menu at Zoës Kitchen, the first of its kind in Texas. “It...

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10 Dishes You Need To Be Eating // Backspace, Olive & June, The Carillon

Austin, Food porn - by Jane Ko | Posted on May 17, 2013
Olive & June, desserts, Austin, Texas

1. Buttermilk panna cotta, blueberry thyme compote, almond soil, thyme crema, blueberry glass, hyssop with blueberry sorbeto. // Olive...

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Fresh & Casual Italian at Trento Restaurant

Austin, Restaurant review - by Jane Ko | Posted on May 11, 2013
Tomato soup, trento, Italian

Tucked away in Westlake Hills is Trento, a casual fine dining restaurant serving up fresh Italian cuisine with handcrafted pasta, panini’s, slow roasted pork, grilled salmon and chicken...

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10 Things I Love and Ate

Food porn - by Jane Ko | Posted on May 5, 2013
Winflo, Austin, Winflo Osteria

1. Soft boiled eggs for oxtail soup ramen // Ramen Tatsuya 2. Polenta benedict with prosciutto...

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