28 Sep 2012 5 Comments
in Humor, Observations, Starlets, Yoga Students & Quinoa (stories) Tags: bacon, clarified butter, food, ghee, humor, license plates, tofu, turkey bacon, yoga
A friend of mine at a design firm where I do contract work a couple days a week makes herself some turkey bacon every morning. You can smell it when you walk into the break room.
I began referring to it as “fakecon” (as in fake bacon), which she objected to. “It’s not fake, it’s turkey.”
Mmmmm.
As far as my knowledge goes, turkeys do not have a bacon cut. (If they did, Thanksgiving might’ve been a more memorable meal.) More
20 Sep 2012 2 Comments
in Food, Humor, Recipes Tags: chipotle, cooking, food, kettle corn, Miyazaki, popcorn, Popcornopolis, recipes, Tim Burton, umami
I’m currently addicted to Trader Joe’s “Herbs & Spices” popcorn — the perfect snack when I get a potato chip craving and don’t want the fat. But a rather surprising development given my historical indifference to popcorn.
A bowl of wickedly addictive chipotle Mexikettle corn
I’ve never considered myself much of a popcorn guy. It’s fine at the movies, but otherwise something I just never thought about. But every Christmas, my brother Mark, a man of fine taste, gets our family a large tub of three flavors — cheese, kettle and zebra chocolate — from Popcornopolis. And who winds up eating most of it?? More
17 Sep 2012 15 Comments
in Food, Humor, Observations, Video Tags: car chase, chiles rellenos, food, humor, Le Creuset, los angeles, Mexican food, O.J. Simpson, police
I was in kitchen, making dinner, when my 8-year-old son yelled from the family room. “Dad, car chase!”
Here in Los Angeles, we have our share of high-speed car chases — if you’re old enough to remember the O.J. Simpson murders, you’ll recall we even have slow-speed car chases. We’ve got a lot of cars, a lot of freeways, and a fair percentage of people doing things they shouldn’t be. I typically don’t pay much attention — it seems prurient, like staring at a car wreck or a topless woman on a European beach. But once in awhile, I get sucked in. Which is what happened the other night, as I cooked chiles rellenos. More
14 Sep 2012 6 Comments
in Cooking Tips, Recipes Tags: food, Italian cooking, Italy, Mario Batali, olive oil, pasta, penne, recipes, swiss chard
There are a lot of great drizzles in the world.
A drizzle of honey over thick Greek yogurt.
A drizzle of chocolate atop an old-fashioned buttermilk donut.
A cold drizzle on a gray Parisian day that causes you to duck into a cozy bistro for a bowl of soup and a long afternoon with a bottle of wine.
But for my money, the greatest drizzle of them all, the drizzle that makes all the difference, is the drizzle of a good, fruity olive oil over a plate of pasta.
This is one of the simplest and most important cooking tips among the many I will bestow upon you here. More
11 Sep 2012 12 Comments
in Humor, Observations Tags: cooking, fish, food, haiku, humor, poems, poetry, SPAM
Although I have a Master’s degree in creative writing and have been published in various poetry journals, you wouldn’t know it from some of my poetry.
The other night I lay in bed wide awake at 2 a.m., thinking about a poem. I got up and went to the computer. Here’s the poem I wrote:
401K
You contribute
to your 401K
again
and again.
You watch
as your money
earns interest.
* * *
* * *
Often, my silliest poems are about food. More
skinny girls & mayonnaise 