22 Aug 2013
by scolgin
in American Series, Humor, Recipes, Sensational Salads
Tags: crab louie, Daniel Shore, Dungeness crab, food, humor, salad, San Francisco
A couple years back, my pal Dan (most recently of rattlesnake culinary ambitions infamy) invited us over for dinner. He was making Crab Louie.
Crab Louie, I thought, now there’s a classic dish that doesn’t get much ink in the foodie lexicon. So I decided I would feature Dan’s dinner on my blog. On the appointed night, we arrived wine in hand.
Dan’s Crab Louie
“Tell me what you’re doing there, Dan,” I said, iPhone video camera in hand. And Dan, who is a natural on camera, walked me through the process of making this delicious salad while I asked insightful questions and captured it all on the phone. Unfortunately, it was Dan’s phone I was using. More
20 Aug 2013
by scolgin
in Humor, Observations, Recipes
Tags: Greek food, humor, Jack London, kolokithokeftedes, New Zealand, Sea Wolf, Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor's Porch Day, The Marrow, Wolf Larsen, zucchini
There was a knock at the door.
Standing there was Jerry, disheveled assistant to my sister Laura’s boyfriend, Ron, holding the largest zucchini I’ve ever seen.
“This is from Ron,” he said, handing it to me. It weighed more than a ham.
I thanked him and closed the door.
My 7-year-old daughter regarded the squash suspiciously.
“What is that?” she asked. More
13 Aug 2013
by scolgin
in Humor, Observations, On the Road
Tags: Alaska, cruising, Crystal Cruises, food, Grand Princess, humor, Nobu, Princess Cruises, travel, Valentino
I’ve just returned from Alaska. For those of you who might’ve noticed that my obsessively regular blog had gone eerily quiet and wondered, it had fully been my intention, as it usually is when I travel, to write posts from wherever I am about the interesting food-related experiences I am having there. But I was aboard a cruise ship, and with wi-fi connection at $.75 a minute, the blogging could wait.
Flynn, Maya and Willa with their hero, Vasheesh, head chef of the Horizon Court buffet
So now you get the benefit of my reflections upon my time in Alaska, versus the immediacy of receiving posts from the front. In other words, you get the edited version versus the rambling. And that’s better anyway, right? More
12 Jul 2013
by scolgin
in Food, Humor, Video
Tags: cooking, food, humor, James Grasso, naples, pizza, San Marzano, Topanga, wood burning oven
Spicy squid pizza, ready for the oven
James is one of my favorite dudes. He drinks fine wine and rides motorcycles and drives 4WD tractors and builds things and does all those kinds of things I think of real men as doing. But that’s not why I’m envious of James. I’m envious because he’s got a wood-burning pizza oven on the patio outside his kitchen. More
28 Jun 2013
by scolgin
in Food, Humor, Starlets, Yoga Students & Quinoa (stories), Video
Tags: beer batter, Daniel Shore, food, fried, humor, local food, rattlesnake, Topanga
There are always interesting things happening in the canyon.
A hot, lazy Southern California afternoon. As I was driving my kids on a winding country road through horse ranches and chaparral the other day, I got a text from my friend Dan:
“Yo bro. Just got a big ol rattler. You want some slither wid yo dinner?”
Daniel with his prize
Rattlesnakes are pretty common up here, and I’ll often see one or two a year. In some of the hotter parts of the canyon, people may see one or two a day. More
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