Tag Archives: Recipes

Last week, after a leisurely French breakfast of pastries, pastis and a mushroom duxelles omelette with fries, we strolled the grounds of the famed Santa Monica farmers market like hunters and gatherers on an a.m. liquor buzz. Predictably the mushroom … Continue reading →

Since the city is still inordinately hot due to it’s smoldering reality, we’ve been more than a little averse to turning on the oven. The mere though of cooking anything, while usually a welcome and blissful notion this week seems … Continue reading →

Cookery is always about sharing, borrowing… yeah, even stealing. The first time we made seitan burgers we had no qualms lifting the recipe (more or less, give or take some smoked salt) from a more tested source. We flipped a … Continue reading →

Yeah. Pine needle juice. And with a little rye whisky… a pine sap-arac. On our recent U.S. National Forest expedition, Hot Knives broke a Golden Rule of camping and broke off a piece of nature to take with us. Relax, … Continue reading →

As we’ve said before: Living in Los Angeles, we rarely have to worry about summer’s harvest spoiling before we can can preserve the goods for winter. Farmers markets year-round. Aint’ no thing. But that doesn’t mean we don’t habitually crave … Continue reading →

The times we resort to getting our vegetables from a plastic bottle are few and far between. Driving at midnight on the I-5 North. Drinking vodka on an airplane… Yep, that’s about it. But we can still admit there’s something … Continue reading →

It is gazpacho season. Don’t know if you’ve ever noticed, but very few dishes as simple as ‘buy vegetables, blend and chill’ inspire such strong, bossy preferences as this iconic cold soup. (We give props to the oil-laden, paprika-orange smoothie … Continue reading →