12 Jul 2013 14 Comments
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
07 Jun 2013 6 Comments
in Food, Observations, Recipes Tags: Alaska, barbecue, bruschetta, Groupon, salmon, San Marzano, Santa Monica Seafood, summer, Tae Kwon Do, tomatoes
There’s a lot going on this week — summer nearing, the last few days of school. The calendar is full, my cooking commitments many.
Savoring my last bite of lunch before the floodgates open
As I sit here this warm afternoon eating one of my favorite summer lunches — crusty multi-grain bruschetta with ripe heirloom tomatoes, basil, olive oil, mozzarella and parmesan reggiano — I think of the next several days. It began this morning, as pal Ernie and I tried to go to the amazing, miraculous Santa Monica Seafood to redeem Groupons we’d purchased to make a seafood dinner this evening. More
skinny girls & mayonnaise 