January 2008
JanuaryJan 30 Wednesday 08
Liquid Smoke
After many successes and failures in beer cookery; we've determined what might just be the perfect cooking beer. Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier is a rustic brew with a long history of intensity. It's one of the few remaining breweries to exclusively utilize open …
JanuaryJan 26 Saturday 08
Older Viscosity
"Pop, phisss... utter vacuumed silence." That is, essentially, the sound a bottle of Older Viscosity makes when you (finally) open it for a drinking. We like to think we could place it in a line-up of recorded bottle-openings -- much the same way those grating, …
Older Viscosity
"Pop, phisss... utter vacuumed silence." That is, essentially, the sound a bottle of Older Viscosity makes when you (finally) open it for a drinking. We like to think we could place it a line-up of recorded bottle-openings -- much the same way those grating, …
JanuaryJan 20 Sunday 08
Cult of the Curry Carrot
Quick preface: We bow low before the soup kitchen altar of our friend Astara, soup wizard-ess and ancient soul, who throws together far superior carrot creations than we by the mere flick of her pinky finger -- her curry carrot soup and her herbed carrot puree …
JanuaryJan 17 Thursday 08
Kimchee Shimeji
Lately you're favorite kitchen hood-rats have been slammed to the gills with the rigmarole of our non-hyperspace rat races. We've been slumping into beers and books a little too quickly in these first weeks of January, and our innate drive to spend three hours …
JanuaryJan 13 Sunday 08
Old Ruffian
There have been days when we've cursed the Rocky Mountains for keeping the Colorado beers we love (and those we think we could love, if that love were only given a chance) from reaching our beer dealers in Los Angeles -- silver bullet indeed. We're used to …
JanuaryJan 8 Tuesday 08
White Widows
In Lieu of super traditional New Year dishes like Tamales or Posole we opted for nothing but booze this year. In the bleary eyed aftermath (the last two weeks) we've all been craving a little something from the solid southwestern repertoire of beans, squash and …
White Widows
In lieu of super traditional New Year dishes like Tamales or Posole we opted for nothing but booze this year. In the bleary eyed aftermath (the last two weeks) we've all been craving a little something from the solid southwestern repertoire of beans, squash and …
JanuaryJan 5 Saturday 08
Hash Greens
Though we're more than happy to sling out menu ideas to restaurateur friends when asked, we also have a secret game we play whereby every dish we cook up gets graded for whether it could one day occupy the menu of a Hot Knives restaurant. This is one of those …