California Tortilla starts from scratch with fresh ingredients: all white meat chicken, USDA sirloin steak, 100 percent Haas avocados. The next step is fresh preparation. Every dish is cooked to order and served with salsa made in small batches throughout the day. The menu features award-winning, signature burritos such as the blackened chicken Caesar, honey lime and crunchy BBQ ranch. Other menu selections include quesadillas, fajitas, tacos, burrito bowls, huge salads, turkey chili, and the...

Jalapeños Restaurante has served Chesapeake Country the classical cuisine of Spain and Hispanic America since 1999. Serving full meals, tapas and antojitos. Lamb Chops with Cabrales Cheese 4 lamb chops 1 cup Balsamic vinegar, aged 3 oz. Cabrales (blue) cheese 1tbs. butter Marinate the lamb chops in olive oil, with rosemary, thyme, oregano and garlic, adding salt and pepper to taste, for one to two hours.  Cook chops in a skillet to your liking.  To make the sauce, heat the vinegar...

Pirates Cove Oyster Pan Roast When it comes to traditional Chesapeake cuisine, oyster stew may be one of the earliest dishes documented. Its simplicity is at variance with its flavor and popularity. At the Cove, we have periodically taken it off the menu, only to promptly reinstate it after howls of dismay. The stew is quick and simple to produce, but it must be made one bowl at a time. The Cove’s oyster pan roast is very similar to the stew and differs only in thickness. We reduce the...

Fifty feet away, just where open land tumbled into kudzu, a large, shaggy, mottled, gray canine was devouring the carcass of some small animal. Certainly not a fox, which are the size of cats or lapdogs. Nor a wolf. Wolves are not resident in Maryland, according to Harry Spiker, Maryland Department of Natural Resources’ man on big furbearing mammals. Likely it was a coyote. In Fairhaven. “We’ve got coyotes statewide,” Spiker told me. “They’re good at not...