Urban Honking

One of our weekly produce haunts is the Atwater Farmers Market. And our only gripe was that this particular market didn’t have a mushroom vendor. Last month our dreams were answered and then some — and not only are their mushrooms, Kane’s Family Farms is a stand that grows yellow oyster mushrooms. When first saw […]

We recently stopped drinking water and have been surviving entirely on homemade elixirs perfected by esteemed friend, health guru, Hot Knives contributor (and Alex’s life partner) Lake Sharp. As a public service, we decided we must cede the blog to her for a guest post. Drink this now! Take it away Lake… Thing is, I […]

WHAT: “Lust For Leaf,” the cookbook formerly known as “Spring Blaze.” 70 + vegetarian and vegan recipes spread out over 128 explosive pages. This is the only cookbook you’ll find with chapters called “Bro-tein” and “BBQ Mosh Pit,” or filled with recipes for DIY Wieners and Patties, Sauce-y Explosions, Salsas that Hurt, Deep Sea Mushrooms, […]

On Easters past, we’ve partied with Jesus. And we’ve partied as Jesus. This Easter we became fixated with how to make a meaty lamb fake-out so we could dress it up in mint sauce. (You know us, fake meat usually means deep shrooming.) But at face value, the idea of mint and mushrooms tasting right […]

If you don’t have a cast iron pan that you cling to like your first stuffed animal, consider why not and figure out a solution. Sure, you can use a regular sauté pan or skillet, but it just wont be the same. That non-stick pan you cook everything in that you got at Target? It […]

It has been more than a year – if you can believe it — since your loyal beer geeks sat down deliberatively to hold forth on the merits or sad shortcomings of a given beer. That’s right, we’ve kinda stopped writing beer reviews. (We did not stop drinking beer.) Why? Maybe we were just busy […]

Alaska Brewing Company touts their reuse of brewing ingredients as a process that is both co-friendly and cost-effective.

Core77 has the details on a visual guide to 202 beers set up like a Pantone color swatch.

Date: September 16, 2011 Location: Josh’s house Present: Josh Berezin, Mike Merrill   102/1000: Anchor Small from Anchor Brewing JB: “Small.” I remember Anchor refers to this beer as coming out of some very old tradition, but no one else makes one now. MM: They could call it anything they want, since they’re the only […]

Mmmmm mmmmm. Napalm in the morning. That aptly describes the flavor of the recipe you’re looking at. But it’s also the smell of victory we found ourselves huffing lustily on a given Sunday last month, when we bombarded four competitors in a vegan chili cook-off. Utter annihilation. There’s mushroom and TVP meat for chunky umami, […]