Urban Honking

In April, we placed in our third Grilled Cheese Invitational with two winning sandwiches. One of them was this Belgian-beer-infused French Onion Soup sandwich — made all the more special because it came about by clairvoyant collaboration. Simmered with savory soup spices and (secret ingredient) Chimay Blue trappist beer, the succulent grilled onions in this […]

During the early days of the Edo period, Soba Noodles became a solid solution to a thiamine blight that was destroying the Japanese masses. During the same period Dutch beer halls sprung up like so much buckwheat and led to the advent of those light crispy lagers that suck everywhere but at an Izakaya… This […]

We Anglo-Angelenos just love fruit stands, they’re like the safer little sister of burrito bomb taco trucks. And fetishizing them like we’re about to do, well, paints us as not just nerds but as gueros. Fuck it! We’ve wanted for months to figure out a compact small plate or appetizer that brings together the classic […]

Maybe the marital feast we’re catering next weekend, and feverishly planning for right now, has us pondering how food can bring people together. Or maybe it’s the Spice Girls’ “2 Become 1” on repeat. Whatever the reason, we loved giving Israeli couscous a Moroccan kick, because we needed a sauce with some heat that would […]

We’re back on the wedding catering warpath kiddies. Next weekend the Hot Knives crew is shipping down to San Diego for a marathon baking and grilling session for what will, hopefully, be an epic reception. The menu is done and most of the kinks are worked out, but we’ve been slow to post the recipes. […]

For the latest hot-ass recipe contribution from a Hot Knives associate, we tapped our sometime radio producer friend Meghan who has been busy baking cookies to raise money for a nutso bike tour she’s doing to raise money for an AIDS donation. Last time we hung with Meghan she was building her first road bike […]

The most pious among us believe that if you pray long enough for something, you’re bound to get it. Well, if that’s the case, some sour-tongued beer geek in our neck of the woods has been prostrating up a storm, because last week we got word of three cases of Russian River’s ‘Supplication’ hitting a […]

Picking up where we left off, the grilled cheese saga continues (we promise oodles of vegan recipes this month to repent for our atypical cheese sins)… After nixing our blue cheese, black pepper potato chip and peanut butter sandwich, we reconfigured our desert entry in the 6th 1st Annual Grilled Cheese Invitational with the help […]

march 8 [recorded on iPhone Notepad] 61/1000 “Romulan Ale” J Well, we’re at Quark’s star trek diner in the las vegas hilton. We’ll be sampling the romulan ale. Be afraid. M isn’t romulan… Isn’t it two planets? Like Romulus and Remus? Which one is it from? J I looked at the bottle… Its brewed in […]

march 8 [recorded on iPhone Notepad] 61/1000 “Romulan Ale” J Well, we’re at Quark’s star trek diner in the las vegas hilton. We’ll be sampling the romulan ale. Be afraid. M isn’t romulan… Isn’t it two planets? Like Romulus and Remus? Which one is it from? J I looked at the bottle… Its brewed in […]