20 Feb 2015 8 Comments
in Recipes Tags: bloody mary, caviar, Don Schneider, Mexican cuisine, Rick Bayless, tamalada, tamales, Vallarta Market
We were sitting around on New Year’s Day drinking bloody marys, when my pal Don showed up with caviar, creme fraiche and blinis.
New Years Day in the Colgin kitchen
His timing was impeccable — it was late morning, we’d eaten nothing yet, the drinks were beginning to take away the edge of nausea, and we had nothing planned. The only thing on my agenda for the day was culinary — I was going to make tamales. More
14 Jun 2013 31 Comments
in Food, Humor, Markets & Stores Tags: Cuba, Cuban food, Dae Myung, Glendale, humor, papas rellenos, Porto's Bakery & Café, Tae Kwon Do, torta cubana, Vallarta Market
When it comes to indulging my food wanderlust, I’m an opportunist. A client meeting in Mid-Wilshire, for example, might be a mere pretext for a stop at Harvey’s Guss for a dry-aged rib steak; a trip into the valley to visit my aging father also a chance to browse the aisles at the Vallarta market or pop into India Sweets & Spices.
So it was a recent Saturday morning, taking my son across the city to Glendale for the 40th anniversary celebration of his tae kwon do academy. What else was there in Glendale that might merit a visit? I wondered. More
30 Oct 2012 Leave a comment
in Beverages, Observations, Recipes Tags: Bodeguita del Medio, Casa San Matias Pueblo Viejo Anejo, Cazadores, Familia Camarenas, Jalisco, Maestro, margaritas, Patrón, tequila, Vallarta Market
Long a beer and wine (and sometimes saké) man, I’ve recently taken to tequila.
I’ve always drank tequila, in the form of a margarita or the occasional shot. But it wasn’t until I was well beyond my freewheeling 20s that I discovered good tequila — sipping tequila. More
13 Dec 2011 6 Comments
in Observations, Video Tags: Greenland Korean market, Henri Toulouse Cochon, Hugh Jackman, Jacques Pépin, Kimchi Chronicles, Nathaniel Parker, pozolé, samgyetang, Target, Vallarta Market
Every time I launch a new post — which is twice a week — I get a little message from the hosting service that says, “Wow! Congratulations! This is your XXX post!!” I think I’m up around 160 now. (You can go through and count if you’re curious and don’t have any plans this afternoon…) That’s a lot of occasionally useful information!
Sometimes someone will say, “Aren’t you worried you’re going to run out of ideas?”
Package of samgyetang ingredients
I don’t worry about that. There are ideas everywhere I look. Last night at the Parkers for dinner I had a colorful conversation with my pal Nat (star of the post, “Sundays with Nat”) about whether we were going to kill our chickens and eat them after they stopped producing eggs (he is, we aren’t). More
18 Feb 2011 10 Comments
in Markets & Stores Tags: Bay Cities Italian Deli, Chinese, India Sweets & Spices, Indonesian, japanese, markets, Mexican, Mitsuwa, Nijiya, Sanchez Carniceria, Santa Monica Seafood, Simpang Asia, Tehran Market, Vallarta Market
I do a lot of driving around going to markets.
One of the greatest things about living in (near) Los Angeles is the number of great markets we have. (Do YOU have an Indonesian market near you!?) I once told a non-food-obsessed friend about all the markets I go to. He said, “You have a problem.” My biggest problem is that they’re not all lined up next to one another in a strip mall. So like I said, I drive.
I have been accused of being bourgeoise for my relentless proselytizing about eating fresh and shopping often. And I do realize that I am fortunate to work for myself and actually have the time to drive around to markets. More
skinny girls & mayonnaise 