Welcome to The Needy Chef!

Welcome to The Needy Chef, my trials and tribulations in cooking and eating.

I love to cook. Even though my kitchen is minuscule and I have no dishwasher, I manage to get by. I have a little bit of a hang-up where I desperately need approval of the dishes I make and will ask over and over if my food is good.

I also love to eat out. Luckily my husband shares this love and we go out to eat way more than we should. We justify this to ourselves because we live in NYC and it would be a sin NOT to dine out. Our tastes vary from mexican to sushi, 5-star to hole in the wall. Some of our favorite restaurants are: Yuca Bar, Sushi Yasuda, Hop Kee, Casa Mono, Capsouto Freres, Pampano, Campagnola, East (27th and 3rd), the dearly departed Jacques Imos (even though the NOLA original lives on), and Thai Jaiya. My only problem is that it is not yet socially acceptable to order more than 2 dishes for yourself.

The most exciting part of my culinary adventures is sampling food around the world. I have eaten squid ink in Venice, alligator in New Orleans, sardines beyond my wildest dreams in Spain, crepes in Paris and coming soon, blue fin tuna eye in Tokyo. I will try it all and it is never enough.