tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56599954758784041212011-07-07T17:11:08.407-07:00A blog about food. And some bikes.eatmeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06024820133599449478noreply@blogger.comBlogger381100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659995475878404121.post-76248378259963203542010-05-04T10:29:00.001-07:002010-05-04T10:37:22.672-07:00

I call this kind of fog "Freddie" fog because, like my friend Freddie, it's AWOL.I kind of like the limited visibility, and the cover was especially appreciated since I forgot sunscreen this morning.The best thing, though, is the quiet. No planes this morning.

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So tantalizingly close to being done, but still stuck in the mode of waiting and approvals, I find myself with a spare moment to share with you a little home cooking.Saturday, both BoW and I had to step into the office in the morning. For me, it was just to grab something I had forgotten on my way out on Friday, so I made a morning of it, rode to The Lot, and got my ears lowered after killing

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Well, it has been a long time since the last post, and while I would never cave to public pressure, my absence has been noted by the likes of The Good Doctor and questions have been raised by the Life of Kiley.I finally finished work on the feature that had been keeping me busy in the spring right about the same time that my new, custom Independent Fabrications Crown Jewel was completed by my

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I really thought it hadn't been that long. For the last month, I've kind of been putting this off, thinking the end is coming, and time will be mine again.I also though I had made a couple more stops here in the last two months than I actually had. Regardless, the show is nearly over, and I'm in that wonderful spot where I still have a job, but it tends to only last for a sane-seeming 9-10 hours

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Still pretty crazed at work right now, but we're closing in on the goal. Even though I'm 11 days into my second 13-day week this month, I feel good today. Maybe I'm just getting acclimated to working until 1AM. Maybe being on the summer side of the vernal equinox has given me some added strength. Maybe I'm just as beat and delusional, but I can't tell any more. At least it's not Public

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In the few minutes I have before heading out to work this morning, day 10 of a 13-day week that has included 4 16-hour days thus far, I am somehow compelled to blog. I can no longer be satisfied by mere facebook status updates or snarky comments. I must speak and have you listen. Both of you.Partially, I am a little inspired by bikesnob, my hero of the blogoshpere. His recent work has bee among

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If you haven't read the first post in this series, I suggest doing it in order. I'm a formalist, after all.Pork has become a pervasive theme in our society. The internet memes alone are enough to make one turn to Tarvu for solace. How many of you are fans of bacon on Facebook? Even the New York Times has featured the bacon explosion. That makes it the pork of record.But, I shouldn't get ahead of

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Something happened last Wednesday that changed me forever. Well, maybe just for the next 6 days. I had a pigpiphany, if you will, and you're here, so I know you will.Many people commented on my last post, most of them expressing joy over pig candy and a salad that is more than half bacon and eggs. It is my duty, however, to give you all a warning: pig candy is a gateway drug. Use it with caution,

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First, an apology. I promised a report on grilled tofu featuring my standard Cardini's-based marinade. Well, the grill never really got hot enough due to gas pressure issues related to temperature and disuse. The result was limp tofu that never really got any kind of char. It wasn't bad to eat, but certainly nothing to photograph or write into the abyss of the internet about.Instead, I bring you

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Rather than make excuses for why I haven't been photographing my food and posting, you get a random, scattered posting today. Kind of like a series of shorts that may or may not have a unifying theme or an appearance from John C. Reilly.Sketch 1, Delivery:Lots of takeout and delivery lately. We're lucky to have some good choices in our neighborhood: Szechuan, better-than-utility Thai, Pho,

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This weekend was an unexpected weekend. By that, I mean I actually had two days off after expecting to have to work Sunday.So, while you may expect to see pictures and a review of Gyenari, Culver City's new upscale Korean BBQ, what you get is lamburger.For the record, Gyenari turned out to be better in most ways than the DayGlo lounge look would seem to belie. We had BBQ, and while it was no

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One of my coworkers is Japanese. At least her mom is, and she grew up there, so that's Japanese enough for me. As you can imagine, I am constantly bugging her about food. So, when she went home for the New Year holiday, she took pictures of her meals for me. Her relatives laughed, but for me, that slideshow when she got back was better than all the porn on all the internets in all the universe.

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The first couple of times I went to San Francisco I was not that impressed. I was spending time working at Davies Hall, which can only be described as an abomination inside and out. I trust that even the most recent round of acoustic treatment has done little to remedy that. I guarantee that it still looks like a sports arena outside, especially set as it is among the Beaux Arts buildings of the

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No, this is not going to be a posting about the ubiquitous American condiment, the Malay or Chinese fish sauce, or even the Dolce Group restaurant. This is about the fact that I have been lazy about posting, and owe you some pictures.On Boxing Day, we decided we wanted sushi as a sort of antidote to the meaty goodness we had been wallowing in. The house still smelled like a roast, after all.

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Ok, so I have no excuses. The only reason I haven't posted is pure laziness. That, and kind of a lack of creative energy. I've been tired. It's been tough to catch up from the last batch of sleep deprivation, and my innate desire to hibernate hasn't been helping things. But, like a floundering government with an multi-billion-dollar industry bailout plan, I've been putting what energy I do have

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Today is the solstice, and according to my personal cosmology, the real height of the winter holiday season. As a post-Catholic, transcendental, science-based animist with a strongly humanist viewpoint (try to find the Wikipedia entry for that one), my personal spirituality is mostly oriented toward integrating personal, cultural, and natural phenomena in some kind of meaningful way through food,

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I love California. Über alles, indeed.Lucky enough to have a Sunday off (don't worry, I'll be paying for it by working 120+ hours between now and Xmas), BoW and I made the most of a gorgeous, clear, cool morning to get in a short ride and a visit to the Mar Vista Farmers' Market. While BoW did not agree with me, I was quite relieved to avoid any interaction with a certain perverse, jolly-old elf

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While not as long as it should have been (I write this Sunday morning at work while waiting for the gear to reboot), the Thanksgiving holiday weekend did give me lots to be thankful for. Each day began with a ride and culminated in a nice meal or other social event. In between, there was sloth. You can understand why I'd want one more day.Thursday was the first ride back on the Look in a couple

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This year's wedding season is over. We attended number six in New York last weekend, and those of you who are paying attention know that there was Journey Karaoke involved.We're lucky to have been to the city once before this year (for? a wedding...) and did the whole Manhattan thing, staying in a stylish downtown hotel, eating and drinking our way through the lower east side. This time, we were

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This weekend's gastronomic highlight was Friday dinner out. To be fair, we had great food at a wedding on Saturday, and BoW made some really delicious mushroom-barley soup (based on a homemade chicken broth), but it would have been tacky to review the wedding food, good as it was, and I was too tired after work last night to give the wife her due. Besides, she cooked it, she can blog about it!

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This seems to be the season of second chances. I'm working with a group of people I have worked with before. At the end of the last show, we kind of split up with most of the crew going in one direction and a couple of us going in a different one. That's the way things work in my business, and I'm really happy that circumstances arose that allowed me another chance to work with them. Usually,

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Over the weekend, which is to say Sunday now that I'm working 65+ hours a week again, I received a little grief from a good friend and avid reader, TF (yes, F --  I'm not dragging the Doctor's good name into this) for not posting in so long. After bellyaching about work, I realized she was right, and I resolved to post more frequently, if not as ramblingly or even on topic as I have. The

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On Friday afternoon, I got a text from one of my oldest friends, MF. Although we live in the same town, we don't see as much of each other as we should, and BoW and I have been needing to connect with him ad his new wife L for some time now. This was the perfect weekend, as his mom was in town, and he suggested a late dinner at a restaurant that was just around the corner from their place in WeHo

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I believe that my attempts to woo Bike Snob through the sincerest form of flattery may be fruitless. Direct communication from manufacturers and BMX evangelists will certainly trump my measly copycat snark.(BTW, if Ernesto does write, please ask him to explain the paint jobs on some of his bikes.)Besides, I prolly offended him by making fun of the Tokyo Langster.There is good news for my just

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For better or worse, Los Angeles is a center of culture. Movies, TV, music, literature, art,  architecture, even dance all flourish here. Fashion, however, does not. At least not in the same way. Sure, some local designers have become notorious throughout the world, and others have even attempted to bridge their aesthetic with my beloved sport of cycling. Still, it is no Paris, no Milan, and no

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Bike Snob is back from vacation, so there is no excuse for me not to post. I have to keep up if I'm going to be a second-rate knockoff. I'm seriously slipping into third-rate territory.Returning to work means returning to commuting. As Facebook users can attest, I was completely unprepared for the weight of computer, clothes, and shoes in my pannier. It's a bit heavier than farmers' market

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At 11:00 AM, the post super calls to check my availability. A quick glance down reveals that I am sitting on the couch in my underwear: I am available. Good, he says, someone from the crew will call you later to chat and probably set up some kind of interview for tomorrow.At this point, it's understood that I will likely get the job, but not certainly.The day passes. Chores are done. Pastimes are

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OK, so I promised a couple of you a new posting today. Well, I kinda got sidetracked. Unexpected visits, phone calls, and chores got in the way. The theme of the post was going to be managing expectations anyway, so consider this a taste of things to come.There. Your expectations have been managed.

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Yesterday was the fourth annual Harvest Ride for Literacy. It's an awesome ride along the cost through Ventura and Santa Barbara counties and back through the foothills. I did the first one as my first century and last year's with Stretch. BoW did the 66 mile ride last year and opted for the 55 this year.Of course, since we had a heat wave last week, yesterday we had our first rain of the season.

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I'm not feeling particularly clever today because it's hot. I did, however, take pictures of last night's meal and I am feeling a bit cranky (also from the heat), so I guess I will just rant.This heat wave, which from daily visits to check the weather seems to get one day longer every day, is the kind of October swelter that, as kids, we called "Indian Summer." By the time I got to college in the

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If you don't know what I mean by zombie apocalypse, perhaps I shouldn't tell you. After all, we need some time to get away. Suffice to say that it could happen, and if it does, you should have a plan in place to ride it out.The zombie apocalypse is a total gamechanger. For instance, they just built a Wal-Mart down the street from my parents. Normally, this is something that I would be

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OK, so I haven't posted in almost a week, and that means Taco Tuesday has come back around again. Of course, this post isn't actually about that, but I will share with you my lunch from Monday.Sunday was the cycling worlds, and we enjoyed some flank steak (a future post, no doubt, as it is a household staple), some roasted potatoes, and some fresh snap peas. Monday was a rest day for me (no bike

eatmeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06024820133599449478noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659995475878404121.post-22970279411540605532008-09-24T17:13:00.000-07:002008-09-24T18:15:03.399-07:00

As anyone who worked with me in the last year knows, we have taco night once a week in our house. It is usually held on a Tuesday or Thursday to take full advantage of the whole "TT" thing that seemed to rule my life there for a while. Really, though, it has a lot to do with our enthusiasm for meat and cheese and liquor. See, BoW makes quite a mean margarita using fresh lime, top-shelf silver

eatmeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06024820133599449478noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659995475878404121.post-58818878125874530772008-09-22T15:30:00.000-07:002008-09-22T16:34:13.977-07:00

I am not here to tell you that pizza is the greatest food ever. That would be silly. It might, however, give the greatest ROI of just about anything you can cook at home.Plenty of other sources will tell you their secrets and give you tips on how to do it. As for me, it's been a combination of trial and error, copying other people's work, and relying on one of my core kitchen references, The New

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My intention was to post this yesterday, but it was Taco Tuesday, and after a ride on the Mulholland Fire Road, Stretch and I went to Burbank hotspot Fiesta Taco to chow on some Tacos al Pastor. I think he put it best when he said that tacos were the ultimate pork delivery device.At any rate, I have been feeling very fall for the last week or so, and apparently I am not alone. In fact, that post

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This weekend, BoW and I hosted a little going-away party for Stretch. It was small gathering of friends in our back yard on a perfect summer Saturday.There were, of course, last-minute errands to run that morning, so we stopped off at Sorrento's Italian Market to get a couple of sandwiches, along with some olives and baguettes for the party spread. She opted for the sausage while I got the combo

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Much has been made of the renaissance of my precious Culver City's dining culture. Some of that ado has even been about something, as in the case of Fraiche which I look forward to having the opportunity to lavish praise upon in this space in the future.Needless to say that when Father's Office opened their eastern outpost in the Helms District in April, I cringed visibly at the thought of so

eatmeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06024820133599449478noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659995475878404121.post-1623552452873875712008-09-11T13:12:00.000-07:002008-09-11T13:30:29.993-07:00

For a while now, my loving wife has been on me to start a food blog. First, my excuse was I didn't have a clever name. Now that that's out of the way we can move on.What you can expect to see here is a lot of talk about food. If I'm really into it, I'll even have a picture or two of some food. I have an iPhone, and if you have one too, you know that it's really only good for taking pictures of

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