Today we headed over to the mission american kitchen for the fork the fire event, a charity event to benefit Heidi’s and Blackbird restaurants. These two restaurants and a bunch of local shops tragically burnt to the ground a few months ago, and Heidi’s was one of our favorite little French places.
The following restaurants were [...]
For tonight, my blog contribution consists of the Omnivore’s Hundred, a list of one hundred foods every good omnivore should try at least once in their life. Created by Andrew Wheeler of Very Good Taste, and as seen on Chocolate and Zucchini, copied from Raccoon and Lobster, and brought to you by the letters N, O, and [...]
It’s suppose to be for breakfast traditionally, but this is what I had for lunch. It’s a hard boiled salted duck egg and fermented tofu over rice porridge.
Salted duck eggs when hard boiled, the egg yolk has a very grainy/sandy texture, it’s almost like a roe. The yolk of a really good duck egg is [...]
Yes, this is how much I suck at posting stuff on time. These pictures are from memorial day weekend. We had a few friends over, had some omgBBQ, and guest chef Travis brought over carrot cake muffins with a cream cheese frosting, and guest chef Sean made succulent ribs that melted in your mouth. [...]
Step 1: Make fresh pasta. 3 cups of flour + 4 eggs = yum.
Step 2: Make Pasta Puttanesca with fresh pasta. Double yum.
This is my first braided loaf, and it was lots of fun. Used 4 ropes instead of 3 and it’s so much prettier. I brought it over to Sean’s aunt’s birthday party and it was a very successful loaf. She gave me her recipe for a flax seed and oats challah that [...]
My breakfast, it is very happy this morning.
Then I ate him, and he was ANGRY.
Notice that the lighting is darker and more ominous, that was totally done on purpose, yup.
