Welcome to Delicious Double Takes

Have you ever tried a dish from a restaurant that has received amazing reviews just to find out that it's nothing more than a mediocre helping of blandness? Sometimes, you get the sense of puzzlement and frustration because, in reality, you could probably make a better-tasting dish. Delicious Double Takes is a second look at the food that don’t quite live up to the hype it receives.

This blog will cover our attempts to re-create meals with the little pizazz they need. Sometimes it could be the addition of more seasonings or perhaps the substitution of ingredients that could help the dish sing with bold flavors or maintain its identity.

In this blog we also hope to illustrate the food served up by the student cooks in the Berkeley co-ops. In a house filled with hipsters and dietary limitations as well as quinoa and wheatgrass, glamour and maybe even a dash of cooperative “bougieness,” we would like to show how to make wonderful meals with the little or a lot one might have. Since all the meals we will re-create will be made in our co-op kitchen, it would be nice to showcase the splendor of wonderful, inventive, and delicious food that’s being made not only by us, but by others.

Feel free to comment on your experience with overly glorified meals and what you did to make it better. And talk about your success or failures in making a delicious meal with an empty or packed cupboard.