The RestauRant Podcast: Recent Episodes
Nicholas Haskins
Season two of the RestauRant rolls on! Welcome back to another week of the RestauRant where we are visiting the Anthracite Cafe in Wilkes-Barre, PA, another one of my absolute favorites. We’ll talk about their wings and my criteria for the perfect wing.
This week in food and the recipe of the week are all about homemade pizza! I’m dropping recipes for homemade pizza dough and sauce and talking about making two homemade pies, a buffalo chicken pizza and a cheese pizza. I love making pizza homemade, and after this episode, I hope you will too.
Next week on the show, random recipe number two, and I talk about my New Year’s prime rib recipe. For recipes from this episode and to interact in my fan-interactive segments, join my facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/groups/restaurantpod. You can also submit your own recipes for me to make! Bon appetit!
Aggregate Score (Anthracite C [...]
Happy New Year everyone and welcome to season two of the RestauRant podcast! Life, as it often does, got in the way over the holidays, so I decided to take a break from the show and focus on some other stuff. But I was still cooking and still visiting restaurants, so season two is gonna bust out of the gate with tons of new recipes and much, much more.
This week on the show, my review of one of my favorite Italian restaurants, the Oaks Inn in Endicott, NY, although the lowest rating is for something you might not expect. Also this week, I’m cooking one of YOUR recipes with a submission from David the Producer of the Unwritable Rant podcast! And this week in food, I talk about something I often do but rarely succeed at- cutting corners in the kitchen.
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Quick Bite Summary (Uno Chicago Grill, Vestal, NY)
Came in yesterday for a quick app and a drink at the bar. The good- the prickly pear margaritas were great! We also had the Uno Exotico margaritas and these were very sour, but still good (I imagine the strawberry version is probably better, but the idea of sour sounded better and did not disappoint).
The bad- the appetizer I ordered was chicken tenders with Fireball Whiskey BBQ sauce. First of all, these things cost $11, and I got FIVE little baby tenders that definitely come pre-packaged in a box. I know you try to turn a decent profit on apps and they have a good bit of the profit margin built into them, but someone could buy five pounds of chicken fresh and make these tenders for the same price. That’s obscene, especially since they clearly were not breaded and made in-house and instead came from a box.
Worse still- Not only was the price poin [...]
Hello and welcome to Thanksgiving 2017! This week, I celebrate what I’m thankful for this year on this wonderful holiday, and we’ve got not one, not two, but FOUR great recipes that landed on my table this year, but also that you can use all year ’round.
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It’s Sunday and we’re just a few days away from Thanksgiving, to where you should be thinking about the preparations that will go into your meal. On this week’s episode, I’ll talk about the recipe I put together for the brine I’ll be using on my turkey and I’m giving some tips to help you have a less-stressful turkey day overall.
Also this week, I have been doing a lot of cooking! I talked about my apple cider BBQ sauce in a previous episode, and this week it goes into some delicious fall-themed homemade pulled pork. And, in the recipe of the week segment this week, I’m geting weird with meatloaf. Granny Smith apples and Nitro milk stout? What could this mean?
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You voted, and I listened! This week on the show I’m hitting the road again to head to Chipotle Mexican Grill in Vestal, NY, a higher-end chain that prides itself on fresh food and fresh ingredients with a really quick turn-around time. Good friend of the show Dan from Netflix ‘n Swill loves this place, so I know he’s eager to hear how it turned out!
Also this week, aside from a kickin’ red wine chocolate ganache that I’ll talk about during this week in food, I decided to put a spin on this week’s Recipe of the Week segment by buying a bunch of random ingredients and seeing what I could turn them into. The results were even more than I possibly could have expected.
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This week on the show, I’m not visiting another restaurant, but instead I’m doing a recipe inspired by Amanda, a friend of my wife’s, who is about to have a baby and wanted some tips on freezer-friendly meals! I didn’t go about it exactly that way, in that I didn’t give recipes specifically for it, but instead I talked about a lot of great tips you can find here in the show notes about preparing food and sticking things in the freezer for later use. It also ties into This Week in Food, where I talk about doing things for yourself in your own kitchen and talk about a recipe for homemade BBQ sauce.
Also this week, I’m cooking another one of your repices! This was submitted by Emily Prokop of the Story Behind podcast! She sent a recipe inspired by her Hungarian heritage, a homemade chicken paprikash recipe you can find here:
Hello and welcome to another episode of the RestauRant Podcast! This week it’s Italian week here at the RestauRant, as I ventured out to a new restaurant here in my local area, Ristorante Dell’Arco in Endwell, NY! They just opened a few months ago, and we had a dinner worth remembering here. This restaurant gets my highest score yet on the show, and you’ll hear all about it in the restaurant segment.
Also this week, with my frustration of the past two restaurants I’ve visited, I decided to make my own French Onion soup! My first attempt ever and it turned out just fantastic. Hear all about it in This Week in Food! Then, in the recipe of the week, you get a one-two punch with a homemade marinara sauce with homemade beef and lamb meatballs!
Next week, I’m cooking a recipe from a great friend of the show Emily Prokop of the Story Behind podcast, and I’m doing my first-ever special episode talking about freezer-friendly meals! For recipe [...]
Welcome everyone to another week of the RestauRant podcast! This week, as voted by the members of our listener community, I have ventured out to the show’s very first chain restaurant, which are the bane of my existence. I despise chain restaurants, but that’s kind of the idea from which this show was originally born- me ranting about chains! This week I visited the Outback Steakhouse in Vestal, NY, and… well, what an experience it was.
Also this week, I was really craving some fall desserts in spite of the insane heat and humidity outside, so I decided to whip up a batch of apple crisp with a dreamy vanilla bourbon caramel sauce. Though the sauce wasn’t exactly what I’d hoped it might turn out like (and I re-made it on editing day for a fresh batch of crisp I’ll be making), it turned out great. Check it out in the Recipe of the Week!
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Hello and welcome everyone to the first episode of the RestauRant podcast! I am Nick Haskins, and I will be your guide on this journey of food. In this week’s show, we’re talking about reductions and the importance of reduction and concentration of flavor. This theme carries through “This Week in Food” right through the end to the “Recipe of the Week” segment, and I’ll discuss the importance of this incredible technique throughout the show.
Also on the show this week, the premiere of the Restaurant segment, where I visit a restaurant and give a full review and breakdown of my experience. This week I visited a Binghamton, NY staple in the Number 5 Steakhouse, which is nearing 40 years in service after being a firehouse way back in the 19th century. You’ll hear a segment recorded live at the restaurant in Tableside, and I’ll explain my aggregate score breakdown before giving it a rating.
In the Recip [...]
Hello and welcome to episode zero of the RestauRant podcast! I’m Nick Haskins, and welcome to my culinary journey of rants, raves, and ridiculously good food. This is a “test” episode of the show that outlines the general format and introduces all of the general segments.
Being that this is episode zero, some things aren’t ready quite yet… such as the “Restaurant Segment” which will include Tableside, a small piece recorded live at every restaurant. Most of it, however, is ready! I hope you enjoy this inaugural journey as I prepare to rant and rave about all things food.
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