Urban Honking

This is my new favorite breakfast. Making muesli is easy enough, but its preparation poses a psychological challenge (for me). Muesli is best prepared the night before you intend to eat it. If you’re an exceptional meal planner, or the kind of person who packs a lunch in the evening, then you’re bound to have […]

Zucchini has such a presence in spring and summer, and even though the weather isn’t cooperating, it IS almost summer. While I love all vegetables, zucchini is probably my least favorite. It can be bitter, and it has a weird shoe-y after taste (to me). But it’s so easy to find, and so easy to […]

On Sunday, May 22, 2011, musicians Stephen Malkmus(of the band Pavement) and Rebecca Gates(of the Spinanes)will each perform sets at the Rock & Roll Pancake Breakfast Benefit for Dara Greenwald. The event will take place at Disjecta Interdisciplinary Art Center at 8371 N. Interstate Avenue. A pancake breakfast will be served beginning at 11:00am until […]

Alex’s birthday two years ago started the way they all do: we drove to the industrial armpit of north Pasadena that holds Craftsman Brewing. There we found an especially tasty treat awaiting us. The owner/head brewer (of our hearts) Mark Jilg handed over an icy 5-gallon canister of oyster stout. “That’s the laast of this […]

We don’t know how your city’s garden grows, but in Los Angeles our public and private spaces are littered with free food sprouting from hillsides, traffic medians, abandoned lots and neighbors’ fruit trees. This has in turn seeded radical programs that make use of this neighborhood produce that might otherwise die on the vine. Originators […]

*Pre-baking I make granola every week for the family I cook for. It’s one of my favorite recipes; it’s easy, satisfying, and you feel all Martha-Stewarty-Ina-Garteny for making something from scratch that most people normally purchase at a store. This particular granola is golden, crunchy, and delicious. As a bonus, as you bake it, your […]

So, we’re writing a cookbook (if you missed our recent post entitled “We’re writing a cookbook”) and like anything else on this blog, how could we possible undertake such an important, mind-fuck of an endeavor without getting some feedback from our online friends? We would never EVER. So we sent out some inter-office envelopes through […]

A lot of people are disgusted by beets. Even more people seem to be disgusted by beet soup. In high school history class, I was assigned to do a group presentation on the former Soviet Union. My group decided that we should use borscht as a visual aid. I called up my grandmother, and she […]

As the weather starts to encourage more ice cream I want to pass on the DQ Deep Dip Challenge that Steve and I learned about from Evan of Lucy’s Original. The challenge is simple: get a dipped cone at DQ and ask them to deep it really far. After I heard about this challenge it […]

We’re writing a cookbook, it’s coming soon. Get stoned on it.