Urban Honking

After a recent trip to the always epic Cheesestore of Silver lake, we found ourselves gorging on a really ripping cheese plate. If you have the means we highly recommend picking up any of the following lactic lords. l’Alt Urgell y la Cerdanya (Urgelia for short) Like many other types of epicurean ephemera, a cheese […]

As a point of order, it’s important to note that now is the time of year when the weakest of wines will have its day. If its youthful booze you’re looking for, turn your eyes away from tired Beaujolais and pick up a wet hopped IPA. When it comes to IPA’s we like to think […]

Here comes the comfort food, and unfortunately, that means a lot of mashed potatoes are about to be all up in our face. We like taters and all, but honestly, if you open a restaurant and all you can come up with for your dinner menu is garlic blue cheese mashed potatoes, you shouldn’t even […]

When our friend Molly recently returned from a yearlong hiatus in the Iberian Peninsula she was totally infused in the mellow vibes of Spanish cooking. Unlike the tedious scenester bustle you find at just about every eatery touting itself as a tapa house, the world of Spanish food is an utterly simple and pleasant one […]

The situation goes something like this: Last week, a fall chill settled and you started getting psyched about the season by fixing a big fat pot of soup, and this week, go figure, it’s 80 degrees. Now what, right? Or… maybe you did an internet search for “hot soup” “vegan” and it brought you to […]

As the first chills of Los Angelean “winter” gave way to 90 degree heat today, and apocalyptic fires throughout our surrounding areas, a last vestige of the summer-fall mash up finally got mushy after a week of incubation: The Great California Avocado. Instead of making the generalized guacamole, which highlights the color of perfect avocadoes […]

Sometimes it feels like we drink nothing but west coast triple IPAs and 750 ml Belgians, doesn’t it? It’s not far from the truth cuz when you’re home cooks and non-paid beer bloggers you tend to gravitate toward what you know you’ll like. One area where we’ve felt particularly deficient is German, and German-style, brews. […]

Did we say soup season? Naw, we meant stew season. The Halloweeny vibes of deep fall and early winter demand beany substance and spongy protein chunk, not purees or sprinkled garnishes. With that in mind, we pursued an old cobwebbed recipe for goulash — the spice-spiked Hungarian stew that brightens the lives of all the […]

When the weather starts to turn, there is nothing that will warm you to the core like a plate of hot potatoes. These wee tubers braised in sherry will certainly heat your chest cavity and the heady fried sage mayo will surely stick to your ribs. Hard day at the rat race? This stuff will […]

What with our guest contributors beating us to the punch and declaring it official Soup Season, we decided to hurry up and follow suit. Unfortunately, some of us don’t have foggy Tolkien-esque mountain fjords abloom with woody fungus bounties, so we had to make due with just pillaging our SoCal farmers markets. We came up […]