Tag Archives: Recipes

Power Breakfast

Posted on June 15, 2009 by Hot Knives

Breakfast for vegetarians can often become the perfect pipeline for the over-processed. Faux chorizo, soy turkey sausage, and other forms of soy-plastic sodium bombs. The joy of chewy mixed meat and snappy bacon was the first thing found by many … Continue reading →

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Nuts For Beer Fest

Posted on June 12, 2009 by Hot Knives

The air was stale and hot, lines were long, and at one point we thought it might actually never end. Yes, there was a certain undeniable Hieronymus Bosch-like quality to the recent Craft Beer Fest L.A. that Hot Knives helped … Continue reading →

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White Sage Whip

Posted on June 9, 2009 by Hot Knives

This is undoubtedly the only recipe we have ever developed with a church potluck in mind. Our favorite local brewer, Mark Jilg, the mad man (in a good way) behind Craftsman Brewing in Pasadena was hosting the annual fundraiser for … Continue reading →

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Bean on Bean Noodle Salad

Posted on May 31, 2009 by Hot Knives

Call it overcompensation, but we have a fondness for heavy doses of protein in all its veggie forms. Nuts. Beans. Soy. Crunch. Chew. Slurp. Sometimes all in one dish! Sunday afternoon, we found ourselves sipping a sake-aged beer on the … Continue reading →

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Curious Orange

Posted on May 22, 2009 by Hot Knives

Though the term “escabeche” formally refers to pickly-preserved fried fish in Spanish cooking, to us it’s the stuff of plastic bags. Here in L.A., a taco truck is generally considered remiss if they don’t hand out free sides of escabeche … Continue reading →

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Raw Spears, Fresh Blood

Posted on May 17, 2009 by Hot Knives

Ages ago, the Romans celebrated the first sight of Asparagus spears with a chariot race. The finest legionnaires loaded their carts with the first crop of wee phalli and raced hell bent to the Alps. While the reward for the … Continue reading →

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Breakfast Tomato Stew

Posted on May 12, 2009 by Hot Knives

We rarely puke anymore. Borrrrring. Yeah, perhaps. We blame it on the slow, silent exit of whiskey from our diet and it’s jolly replacement: fancy beer. It makes for earlier bed times, a regular body clock and generally happy guts. … Continue reading →

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The Perfect Grilled Cheese

Posted on April 28, 2009 by Hot Knives

The Rules 1. Cut the cheese strategically! (shred semi-hard, slice soft, and grate hard cheeses) 2. Lube it up! (Butter the pan AND both slices of bread) 3. Push it real good! (Use a pot or pan to press your … Continue reading →

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Nuptial Nookies

Posted on March 25, 2009 by Hot Knives

Trumpets please! One of us at Hot Knives is getting (ahem… errm) married. Stare at our bouteneirs and suit-pant boners. Cue the cherubs! No presents please, this is just a roundabout way of saying don’t expect much posting over the … Continue reading →

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Rosemary Babies

Posted on March 19, 2009 by Hot Knives

“Ewwww, look at these baaaee-beeez heeeere.” That’s an exclamation the two of us heard in the kitchen for years. Whenever Chef Whalid, our bombastic, Mercedes-driving Afghani chef would parade around the prep kitchen examining produce or partially prepared hors d’oeuvres … Continue reading →

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