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Aventura Wine and Food Festival 2014

January 12, 2014 By Eleanor Hoh 3 Comments

So it seems every single city has its own wine and food festival and today Aventura presented its first festival on a beautiful sunny day. The concept is a great idea because it’s a fabulous way to hang out with friends, taste a lot of different cuisines from local restaurants and try a variety of wines all in one place! Just be aware of long lines to enter and at the food and wine tents and wear appropriate clothing and shoes!

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I only managed to get tastings from 3 restaurants: Mister Collins (Bal Harbour); Toro Toro (Pan Asian fusion inside downtown Intercontinental Hotel) and Fish Fish (North Miami). All served ceviche cause it’s the easiest dish to serve! So disappointed Chef Ryan Harrison didn’t have cooking facilities for his spiced popcorn at the Mas Vino tent, maybe next year!

Filed Under: blog, events, food, wine Tagged With: Aventura, event, festival, food, wine

Asian Culture Festival 2011 – Food

March 6, 2011 By Eleanor Hoh 2 Comments

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Vietnamese gals from Viet Style who know how to bring it!

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Coconut dessert cooked in CAST IRON, the best material for cooking anything! The more you use it, the more patina & becomes a natural non-stick!  I love the whole setup! They had a huge crowd just fascinated watching.

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Wonderful idea, lots of work, stuffing bamboo stick with sticky rice & red beans.

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Tammi makes fresh Thai curry puffs & banana leaf desserts! I bought some, see other Asian Culture Festival post.

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Indian food.

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Viet Style had the nicest booth display, with orchids, good job. It’s where the gorgeous gals are!

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Chinese food.

Filed Under: Chinese food, food, Indian food, Japanese food, Thai food, Turkish food, Vietnamese food

Veggies and Venza

July 1, 2009 By Eleanor Hoh Leave a Comment

Test driving a Toyota Venza, vroom, vroom gets you a beautiful Boos chopping board and a huge, lovely hessian shopping bag.

Wow, this board is solid, weighs a ton, so I’m not going to move it. It’s perfect for taking my food shots, so now I have a permanent space for it. This is the setup for the Pineapple, Mango Salsa I made for Fourth of July celebrations.

Problem with holding events outdoors in Florida is you’re at the mercy of the weather. It rained on and off all afternoon, so it was surprising there was even a crowd. But guess whenever there’s free food, you’ll get the crowds. It was nice to spend time with Paula of mangoandlime. She wrote a more descriptive, foodie blog with photos from the event.

This is ratatouille and goat cheese croquette from Chef Xavier.

Bella Cuba’s avocado and tomatoes on top of a corn crunchy, much better description by Paula!

Dean Richardson of Tropical Treescapes Inc. likes to grow veggies that are unusual. Never seen red yard long beans. Some of the chefs were using his veggies. Maybe we can get him to bring some to one of my Wok Star cooking classes and cook them?

It was wonderful to see how the chefs came up with their dishes, especially Chef Marcelo from Le Cordon Bleu. Here’s the Deconstructed Salad.

For me, gourmet food is best left to restaurant chefs who have sous chefs to assist them and can source specialty items from purveyors. I met a very nice Cordon Bleu student, who is Jamaican Chinese, always find it fascinating the mix of cultures and cuisines.

Going out to eat means two things to me – either savoring unique, off the wall dishes which tend to be on the expensive side or enjoying well prepared food at reasonable prices. I am going to post about a few soon because people keep asking me.

His liquid nitrogen, smokin’ Deconstructed Salad was a show stopper.

Different stages of his Deconstructed Salad.

Whenever you ate a dish, you got a stamp in your “Passport” and after 3 stamps, you get a nice potted h
erb plant. Ralph and I managed to get a mint and parsley. I mentioned Claire Tomlin’s The Market Company in Organic and Farmer’s Market, they were responsible for organizing this event and think they did a great job, considering the rain.

We had Claire on our TV show: Open to the Public, years ago when Ralph and I used to produce TV shows on Miami Beach. Yes, another hat I used to wear and would like to get back into it, well, not the producing so much but appearing. You can see an excerpt of me interviewing a chef, scroll down to bottom of my BIO.

Mis en place on one of those beautiful Boos chopping boards!
Grimpa’s croquettes. I was too full to have any.

Adriana in Surfside’s Tilapia ceviche.

All in all, it was a nice way to spend a rainy afternoon. We also got to spend time with friends and their grandkids who enjoyed the Florida rain. You’ll see them at my Fourth of July Celebrations.

Filed Under: cooking, farmers market, food, Lincoln Road, Toyota Venza

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