Dinner with My New iPhone 6
13 Feb 2015 4 Comments
in Food, Humor, Video Tags: Apple, cooking, Don Schneider, food, humor, iPhone 6, Japanese food, sushi
The Beautiful Simplicity of Simplicity
19 Dec 2014 16 Comments
in Recipes, Video Tags: ciriole di farro, farro, food, heirloom tomatoes, Italian cooking, pasta, quick cooking tips, recipes
I was making lunch for my wife and myself the other day, and had settled on a simple pasta. I had a nice heirloom pineapple tomato I needed to use, and would go from there.
Ciriole di farro pasta with heirloom tomato
In the cupboard, I found an open box of ciriole di farro noodles (farro, for the uninitiated, is an ancient Roman grain related to barley) that would work beautifully as a canvas. More
A Fine Day for Chili
09 Nov 2014 7 Comments
in Pork, Starlets, Video Tags: beer, chiles, chili cook off, food, Negro Modelo, Pork, Savraw, Southwestern cooking, Topanga
Out on my morning run, I saw a couple deer mating. And I knew it was going to be a good day.
For it was the Saturday of the Topanga Chili Cook-Off and Swap Meet, which my friend Nonie — who is on the board of the Community Club — had coerced me into entering.
Tom and his chili paddle
Last year, I was a judge alongside my pal Ernie. There were two chilis entered, neither of which were very good. “I think the best chili was the one they were selling at the concession,” I said to the gal running the event.
“But that came from a can!” she protested. More
The Dead
04 Nov 2014 13 Comments
in Pork, Recipes, Video Tags: Dia de los Muertos, holidays, James Joyce, Loteria, Mexican cooking, Mexico, mole, Oaxaca, Pork, The Dead
“His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.” —James Joyce, “The Dead”
As I’ve confessed to in the past, I like holidays — particularly other people’s holidays. Our neighbors to the south, Mexico, for example.
Naomi’s Blown Eggs
19 Sep 2014 7 Comments
in Humor, Video Tags: breakfast, Don Schneider, eggs, Ferry Building, food, humor, Mexico, San Francisco, Topanga
“Why don’t you do a post about me?” 10-year-old Naomi Schneider said, gazing over my shoulder as I showed her various posts about her father and mother.
“Why would I do a post about you?” I answered.
Naomi
“Because,” she said.
I assured her that she must be somewhere on my blog, and began opening posts about Tuesday sushi nights and Mexico vacations and Sonoma wine barbecues and other Schneider-related topics, and finally found a group shot at the Ferry Building in San Francisco where a teeny, tiny Naomi could be spotted in a corner. More
skinny girls & mayonnaise 