Urban Honking

Months ago, I ate a Black Quinoa salad at Surfas. It was one of the best salads I’ve ever eaten. I catered a wedding shower this past weekend, and I decided to try to replicate the Surfas salad. For whatever reason, Whole Foods in Glendale has decided to discontinue its sale of black quinoa. I […]

I make lentil soup more than any other soup (in fact, have we talked about it before? I can’t remember). I don’t get sick of it. It’s a perfect lunch. It’s a perfect dinner. It’s a perfect soup. *Topped with cheese, fresh Italian parsley, and served with Ezekiel bread toast And the most perfect of […]

I highly recommend this cookbook: It’s great for vegetarians, but it’s also great if you’re just looking to expand your side-dish repetoire. The cover image recipe (a baked eggplant dish) is INSANELY good. This is a good demo of the recipe (don’t you love his voice?) *I make this sauce with tahini and yogurt (because […]

This is a very quick and easy recipe I came up with one day when I was looking for a way to make a salad slightly more interesting. I’ve had rosemary in roasted nuts before, but there’s something about rosemary paired with pecans that is unexpected and perfect. These go well in a salad with […]

Hi y’all. It’s been a long time (sadly). Lately I haven’t been personal chef-ing full time. I’ve been doing it on the side. It’s a long story involving how I got fired after 3 days by a famous hollywood director that you’ve all heard of. It’s a pretty crazy story (need to do a comic […]

I wonder what kind of beer that is? President Barack Obama offers a toast to Dakota Meyer on the patio outside of the Oval Office, Sept. 14, 2011. The President presented Meyer with the Medal of Honor Sept. 15, 2011, during a ceremony at the White House.

Our ‘Grapevine Dolma’ recipe started as a salad special we once whipped up before dinner service; it became a slightly weird blog post recipe; it morphed into a different book recipe – and it continues to evolve still (we badly wanna try it with a mix of forbidden rice and basmati to stain it a […]

Our birth canal is 7 x 9 inches wider and our book “Salad Daze” is born! It’s wiggly, a little greasy, and absolutely beautiful. Why make a book when we can blog? This is a tactile, physical, near-perfect object we were lucky enough to toss into the world’s shelves! If you like the blog, we […]

This little rainbow of roots was scented with our proprietary vadauvan — a heady combo of a ton of aromatics and a ton of spices. As we type, we are screaming our way back from an awesome interview on “Good Food” with Evan Kleiman (listen for where she calls us two of her favorite guests, […]

A little while ago, Alex went through a phase that Evan couldn’t understand. Every time he’d come over around a meal time it seemed Alex was at the stove boiling a pot of white rice. “Want some”? he’d offer, reaching for bowls. When the kernels were perfectly cooked, he’d spoon out a little less than […]