Tag Archives: Recipes

Leek & Apple Loin

For the traditionalists among you, stay tuned for some sort of fucked up seitan turkey concoction later in the week. For you free thinkers, here’s a ridiculous take on the pork loin thanks to Gimme Lean, our favorite sausage prada … Continue reading

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Gravy & Stuffing LIVE!!!

Aiiight nerds, we have our first self-produced kitchen video up. It’s footage of our own Thanksgiving ’06 adventures where we took on seitan and sage turkey breasts, golden oyster gravy, apple and shallot stuffing, and homemade sourdough bread. Keep reading … Continue reading

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Chestnut Pate

Making a vegetarian pate is almost a cliché. But this shit is too good to not share. It started as so many things do in our kitchen: with a lot of shallots. This was a bit of experiment for us, … Continue reading

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Shitake Blossums

Sometimes we like to get a little conceptual with our dishes. Instead of buying super expensive, super delicate squash blossums and stuffing them with all manner of frou frou, we made baby squash cups bloom on top of a soy … Continue reading

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Calaba-Quilles

Nothin’ says “bachelor meal” like gringo food. And nothing says “gringo” like butchering the names of Latino dishes. Here we manage to mangle both “Calabacitas” (a delicious pan fried combo of corn, squash, beans and rice) and “Chilequilles” or “soggy … Continue reading

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Ginger Beer & Scallion Cranberries

If you eat cranberry sauce from a can on Thanksgiving you might as well be stranded on Plymouth Rock with an ‘India or Bust’ T-shirt. Meaning, we think, that the stuff blows. More importantly, here’s a rad recipe that doesn’t. … Continue reading

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Bitches Brew

We have a confession to make. That beer we reviewed below, you know the Double Arrogant Bastard? Well…we got arrogant and used it in the recipe that precedes this, our Frenchy Onion Soup. The traditional French Onion Soup does, after … Continue reading

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Wavy Gravy & Sage Biscuits

There are times in life when you find yourself groggily waking up with the sun, only to find a house full of passed-out party fiends littering the path toward the kitchen. And though they may be deep within drug comas, … Continue reading

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Spice Whipped Sunchokes

The tuber we’ve come to call the Jerusalem Artichoke may be the perfect Thanksgiving food stuff, (its more poetic name, of course, is sunchoke), because the gnarly little, root-like guy was a native of North America long before any pale … Continue reading

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Seconds on Seitan

In order to properly construct this dish of leftovers we drove the three hours northwest to Ojai, deep into the Los Padres National Forest. We set up camp 6,000 miles up at a place called Pine Mountain and went to … Continue reading

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