16 Jan 2015
by scolgin
in Humor
Tags: Charlie Hebdo, chickens, coyotes, food, humor, Malibu Feed Bin, Mammoth Mountain, Topanga
It had already been a tough week.
Enjoying our ski vacation in Mammoth, we were hit with the news of the terrorist attacks at the satirical paper, Charlie Hebdo, in Paris.
I had once purchased the URL, chickensacrifice.com, thinking I would do some sort of satirical online publication. I never did.
It was about 4 a.m. on the morning of January 13. I was returning in a daze from the bathroom to my bed when I heard a strange whimpering sound from outside — something like a cross between a baby crying and an owl. More
02 Jan 2015
by scolgin
in Starlets
Tags: bourbon, food, Francis Ford Coppola, humor, Monty Python, Mr. Creosote, New Year's Eve, pork belly, Topanga, zabuton
Our annual New Year’s Eve dinner with a small handful of friends commenced at 6 p.m. on December 31st with a matsutake and lardo pizza and copious amounts of champagne.
Through the several hours of the carefully planned and sourced meal, we would dine our way through seven courses (pizza not included), six or seven bottles of pinot noir and a magnum of Francis Ford Coppola-autographed 1980-something Neibaum-Coppola cabernet (you can’t keep that stuff forever), some French and Australian wines, a bit of mescal and more. A bit foggy as I write…
Here are some of the highlights. Happy New Year! And see if you can find the Monty Python joke somewhere in there…
The menu
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19 Dec 2014
by scolgin
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
12 Dec 2014
by scolgin
in Humor, Observations
Tags: blogging, blogs, cooking, fame, food, humor, Kim Kardashian, Sean Colgin, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, writing
It’s impossible to be objective when it comes to ourselves. Just in the way we can never know what other people see when they look at us, I sometimes wonder what other people must think of my blog.
Self-important-looking selfie with painting
“Stand up straight, babe,” my wife will sometimes say to me.
I wonder if there’s a blog equivalent of not standing up straight. Are any of my sentences lazy? More
05 Dec 2014
by scolgin
in Observations, Starlets
Tags: Bon Appétit, Condé Nast, cooking, food, Gourmet magazine, Julia Child, luau, Saveur, smorgasbord
It was a lazyish Saturday afternoon, I was having a Sculpin IPA and preparing smoked ribeye sliders, Maui onion rings and a peach tart for my son’s intimate birthday celebration, when an email came in from my mother with the subject line, “gourmet”.
Finding no afternoon reading inspiration in this book or that, she had dug up an old issue of Gourmet magazine. “By old,” she said, “I mean 1973.” She went on: More
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