15 Nov 2013
by scolgin
in Humor, Starlets, Yoga Students & Quinoa (stories)
Tags: cooking, fennel pollen, food, Groupon, humor, Milford Spice Company, saffron, salt, spices
It was a cold and rainy winter morning in March 2012 (actually it was so long ago I don’t remember, but “cold and rainy winter morning” always makes for a better story beginning) when the Groupon arrived — a new online spice company called Milford Spice. I browsed their website and found a lot of interesting things, and who can’t always use some spices — especially at 50% off? It was near my birthday, so I treated myself to the Groupon and got shopping.
Bourbon-barrel smoked sea salt, looks good doesn’t it?
Here were many things I could use — saffron, Malabar black peppercorns, Middle Eastern zahtar, vanilla beans — and interesting things I’d never heard of before like bourbon-barrel smoked sea salt and toasted onion cane sugar (!). I was like a kid in a candy store, and put my order in. More
12 Nov 2013
by scolgin
in Humor, Observations
Tags: blood pressure, cooking, exercise, food, humor, jogging, margaritas, Mark Bittman, nutrition, Vegan Before Six
After three months reducing my salt, I went triumphantly back to the doctor to check my blood pressure, sure that my elimination of kim chee, olives and anchovies and my new snacking regiment of walnuts would’ve done the trick. I hoped my blood pressure wouldn’t now be too low!
“Still the same,” she said. “I guess you’re not that sensitive to salt.”
The Omron 10 Series
How could this be? And then she broke the bad news: She wanted to try putting me on a low dose of blood pressure-reducing medicine. More
08 Nov 2013
by scolgin
in Observations, Starlets, Yoga Students & Quinoa (stories)
Tags: Charlie Trotter, chicago, cooking, Dar Maghreb, food, Henry David Thoreau, Mario Batali, morels, Pierre Dupart, Rene Redzepi
I was in the kitchen making breakfast for the kids when my wife came in with an alarmed look on her face.
“Charlie Trotter died.”
The name stalled in my head, it took me a moment to process the news. And then I was hit with a wave of shock: Charlie Trotter, the boyish Chicago chef whose smiling face grinned out at me from three or four cookbooks in my collection. More
18 Oct 2013
by scolgin
in Food, Recipes
Tags: ama ebi, cooking, humor, Japanese food, Otter Pops, sashimi, sushi, toro, unagi
Immy digs in
The other day, I was having some tuna toro sashimi for a snack before dinner. As I sat at the dining room table daintily dipping thin slices of fish into soy sauce and wasabi, my 3-year-old daughter, Imogen, approached.
“I have some?” she said. 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
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