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
My Ham
06 Feb 2015 13 Comments
in Humor, Starlets Tags: caviar, Chinese tacos, Cinco Jotas, Don Schneider, food, humor, iberico bellota, Paul Ferra, Spain, Spanish food
It was late on a Tuesday morning recently when I received a text from my friend, Melissa.
“A client gave us an Iberico ham,” she said. Problem was, she has two young vegetarian daughters who were going to be mortified at the sight of a whole pig leg with a hoof. “Are you interested in it?”
I was.
Jamon guitar with Curtis
She suggested her husband, Paul, wanted to get a little something for it. I offered him $300, he said, “Great!” And I had myself a whole Iberico bellota ham. More
A Feast of Friends
26 Dec 2014 14 Comments
in Food, Observations Tags: Christmas, Don Schneider, Dungeness crab, Guinness, Harry Potter Wii, La Boulange, San Francisco, Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale, Tim O'Gara
Christmas is a lot of different things to different people — a celebration of the birth of Jesus for Christians and Catholics around the world, an orgy of consumerism for most Americans, a reason to eat Chinese food and go to the movies for Jews.
Der Weihnachten eve
For me, like most holidays, it’s about food, family and friends. We had my wife’s family for dinner and presents Christmas eve, a tradition of theirs, celebrated this year at our house. I had enough to prepare for between Christmas dinner and our annual New Year’s Eve dinner, and might’ve done a stew or chili. But opted instead for a German dinner — homebaked rye bread, potato pancakes, house-fermented sauerkraut, spaetzle with roasted matsutake mushrooms and duck cracklings, duck confit, pan-grilled bratwurst and crispy duck breasts, paired nicely with a Swiss cheese fondue my sister-in-law, Laina, had made. More
Why I Don’t Like Frog Legs
03 Oct 2014 34 Comments
in Humor, Recipes Tags: Cajun food, Don Schneider, fried chicken, frog legs, gumbo, humor, jambalaya, Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, Topanga
The main reason I don’t like frog legs can be summed up by one very vulgar photo, for which I apologize in advance.
Here it goes:
As part of our large recent meat purchase from my meat purveyor friend in Portland, my pal Donnie got a rather large box of frog legs. More
Of Life, Death and the Pursuit of Dinner
26 Sep 2014 8 Comments
in Food, Humor, Observations, Pork Tags: abalone, Asian markets, chicken farming, Don Schneider, food, humor, opera, Pork, Portland, recipes
People often ask if we’re ever going to eat our pig, Henri. I explain that he’s a family pet, and no, we have no plans to eat him.
“Not even when he dies of natural causes?” my pal Dan asked.
“You mean like when an anvil falls on his head?” I replied.
Henri napping in the rosemary
I must admit, though … I did catch him napping in the rosemary one day, and thought to myself: “Now I could just build a quick mud oven around him, throw in some coals… and he’d never be the wiser.” More
skinny girls & mayonnaise 