14 Jan 2014 48 Comments
in Recipes, Sensational Salads Tags: arugula, DASH diet, Harry Potter, Mark Bittman, pumpkin, quinoa, recipes, salad, tzatziki, Voldemort
Somewhere in Heaven or on Mt. Olympus or wherever divine beings congregate, the Food Gods and the Irony Gods are toasting and laughing at me. Because, as I write these very words, I am eating quinoa.
Arugula & quinoa salad with roasted pumpkin, walnuts and yogurt cucumbers
They (those gods) had barely just gotten over their amusement at my new jogging regimen (after years of declaring that I only ran if something was chasing me), and now they had this to entertain them! More
10 Jan 2014 6 Comments
in Pork, Recipes Tags: David Chang, Father's Office, food, Ivan Orkin, Ivan Ramen, Japanese cooking, ramen, tokyo, Tsujita LA Artisan Noodle, Umami Burger
My pal Greg, who has expanded my cookbook horizon in the past, got me an interesting book for Christmas. It’s called “Ivan Ramen.”
So this Jewish guy Ivan from Long Island moves to Tokyo, it seems, and decides to open a ramen shop. (Sounds like the set-up for a bad joke.)
Ivan
Ramen is an interesting food. To most of us, it’s something that comes in a brick in a package to be added to hot water. In Japan, it’s essentially a fast food, but is treated with an amount of reverence not afforded our chicken nuggets or fajita wraps. More
07 Jan 2014 16 Comments
in Food, Humor Tags: Bud Light, commercials, football, Green Bay Packers, humor, quinoa, San Francisco 49ers, Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale, tailgating, TV
It was Sunday afternoon, and I was doing something I rarely do — watching football. It was a playoff game, a classic match-up — the San Francisco 49ers vs. the Green Bay Packers at Green Bay, where the temperature at game time was predicted to be 0 degrees.
I kind of like that sort of football. Especially if I’ve got a few beers in the fridge. And San Francisco is the closest we in Los Angeles have to team to root for.
It was the first inning, er… quarter, I mean. The ‘Niners were up 6-0 and seemed to be moving the ball at will. Then a guy on the Packers got hurt, and they went to commercial. More
03 Jan 2014 18 Comments
in Food Tags: 2013, caviar, foie gras, food, Kobe beef, New Year's Eve, risotto, sea urchin, silky pork, sweet shrimp
Another year done come and gone.
I hope everyone had a safe and pleasant New Year’s Eve celebration. We enjoyed a quiet dinner with a few friends. Okay, it was a raucous wine-soaked dinner.
Here are some of the highlights. Now taking reservations for 2014. More
skinny girls & mayonnaise 