Monthly Archives: September 2007

Hot Chick Peas w/ Harissa

Posted on September 30, 2007 by Hot Knives

When we’re super strapped for cash, the first luxury product we cut from our pantry is canned items. Sure a can of garbanzo beans sets you back, oh, 69 cents. But buying industrial-sized sacks of dry beans for $3/10 pounds … Continue reading →

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Spaghettioz

Posted on September 26, 2007 by Hot Knives

News flash: If it’s cutesy, someone’s done it before. After a recent impulse buy of little round ring pasta, the obvious direction seemed to be simmering up some old-school Spaghettios, just with better ingredients. Not only did we discover we’ve … Continue reading →

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The Found Abbey

Posted on September 23, 2007 by Hot Knives

For many epicureans, as with any other group of enthusiasts, there will always be archetypal representations of genre based perfection that are lost, or simply cease to exist. The fish that got away, is a typical lament for any manner … Continue reading →

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Emerald Chutney Salad

Posted on September 19, 2007 by Hot Knives

It being mid-September, summer salad season is in its last throes and our salad spinners are ‘bout to be put away. Of course, being produce geeks and living in perpetual sun, we never fully hibernate from the greenery, if anything … Continue reading →

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Fresh Fruit For Rowdy Vegetarians

Posted on September 17, 2007 by Hot Knives

Fruit salad is a rather nefarious term usually referring to some kind of fructose based nightmare suspended in gelatin that you reluctantly shove down your gullet at a friends’ grandparent house, or a typical mish mash of randomly cut fruits … Continue reading →

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“Kill Ugly Radio”

Posted on September 15, 2007 by Hot Knives

Lagunitas is one of the few breweries that has taken our pitch seriously enough to send us a box of complimentary “review” beer. That was about, oh, a year and a half ago: A huge-ass cardboard box came via FedEx … Continue reading →

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Crewtons

Posted on September 13, 2007 by Hot Knives

Most our homies don’t need encouragement to eat their leafy greens, but hey, it happens. For those who don’t get salad (and they are out there, even amongst vegans), there is one and only one cure: excellent croutons. They can … Continue reading →

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The “Deuce”

Posted on September 9, 2007 by Hot Knives

Quite literally the champagne of beers, Deus Brut des Flandres is light and sparkly and — if you ask some of the beefier beer advocates out there — for girls. (This despite the fact that it’s extremely challenging to not … Continue reading →

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Szechuan Soba Salad

Posted on September 9, 2007 by Hot Knives

Our great, grad school-bound buddy Aubrey “Bobby Beers” White recently high-tailed it out of town. But before she did, she broke out a box of packaged snacks from Japan, all filled with neon colored pickles, she’d been saving for over … Continue reading →

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The Eagle Has Landed

Posted on September 7, 2007 by Hot Knives

While we Hot Knives are mostly proselytizing beer and vegan food, we occasionally regress into fru-fru indulgences on the lactic/enological side. The golden hours portrait above was one of those moments where our collective epicurean id utterly trounced our vegan … Continue reading →

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