Urban Honking

You can’t tell from the picture, but the lady we buy mushrooms from is hot. More often than not, the selecting process for oysters, shiitakes, crimini and portobello takes a little longer than it should — the Gaze lingers a little, sentences come out stuttered. Look we’re not creeps — but its hard to deal […]

In twenty days, our first cookbook comes out. “Salad Daze: The Hot Knives Vegetarian Cookbook” focuses entirely on fall and winter vegetables, with both vegan and vegetarian recipes. We are giddy with pride and grateful to our friends who helped us with it. To celebrate, pump ourselves up and, hopefully, drum up some commercial urges […]

You guys, if you like cookbooks, and you like vegetables, and you don’t have Ottolenghi’s Plenty, do yourself the biggest favor and order/buy it right now. This is my “go to” vegetable cookbook, and it’s beautiful to boot. I’ve been on a big cauliflower kick. Having liked it, but mostly ignored it, cauliflower reappeared in […]

In the last 30 days we’ve gone through one fluid gallon of agave nectar, a liter of molasses and two 5-pound bags of granulated sugar (not counting the several handfuls that erupted all over Evan’s car in thoroughly un-amusing red-light antics). Quick! Check the URL, are you reading the right blog? Did you refresh your […]

I’m obsessed with dill. It changes everything it’s added to. *Digression. In my recent adventures in Hollywood-land, I left my regular cooking gig for a new “fancy” gig that promised significantly better compensation. In a series of funny/shocking/sad events, I am no longer at the fancy gig. Anyway, I’ve been MIA and regrouping. Call me […]

Just in time for “Carmageddon,” which we’re pretty sure is karma smacking upside the collective head of L.A.’s westside, we bring the deserving some relief. We can’t sympathize with most of the idiots who live on the west side of L.A. (who think jogging near the beach on weekends is worth hating the rest of […]

Admitted and unabashed proponents of West Coast beer, we will be the first to admit there’s one state in the upper forty-eight that has contributed as much, if not more, than California to America’s total domination of the beer-drinking world: the upper-mid-western block we call “the silver bullet state.” Higher than any other, Colorado famously […]

In past lives we flung burgers, T-bones and other animal parts onto hot griddles. (Alex became a man while prepping in an Albequerque diner on Route 66 so it was unavoidable, and Evan was the grill station cook one summer at a Philadelphia bistro serving filet mignon to bankers despite the dubious qualification of never […]

Omg, macaroni and cheese! One of the greatest inventions man has ever made! On Saturday, I attended my friend’s annual rib-off (a rib cooking competition). This year, he added a new category in the competition: the “mac-off.” Given that the macaroni and cheese competition was in its infancy, there were a few bumps in the […]

*Copper river salmon, y’all! It’s wild salmon season! Maybe it’s having been born and raised in the Northwest, but even as a vegan-leaning person, I have a hard time giving up salmon. I’ve already done a salmon recipe on here, but I’m always trying to figure out new ways to make it. I make salmon […]