Grilled Cheese, Part Goo

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 …

Bread, Butter...Victory?

Once a year we thoroughly eschew our "mostly vegan" credentials and stock a veritable arsenal of family-made French cheeses to compete in the only competitive food event that we think doesn't blow, the Grilled Cheese Invitational. This year was …

Fruit Stand Stackers

We Anglo-Angelenos just love fruit stands, they're like the safer little sister of burrito bomb roadster 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 …

Mini Port Cherry Pie

Cold drink of water, such a sweet surprise, put a smile to your face 10-miles wide... Whoawwwww!

Tonight we buckled down with some fresh groceries and even fresher ideas for the May wedding we're catering for our friends Matt and Laura. It's the first training …

Project Beer Cave

When Hot Knives first began reviewing beers, we bought new bottles quickly and often, mostly bombers on pocket change. The closest thing to "aging" those beers was the sloshing around they did on the bike ride home from the liquor store.

Then the small, …

Spring Board

At the premier performance of the cataclysmically cool collaboration of Bodycity and Glasser, we happened upon the perfect accompaniment to outdoor fire-cooking: Norwegian Wood. Not to be confused with blond Viking fuel for fire, this ale is mahogany colored …

Grilled Cheese Guantlet and other news

It's been kind of slow posting here at Hot Knives this week -- all apologies -- but we've had a couple things about ready to boil over. First and foremost, we're happy to say that the First 6th Annual Grilled Cheese Invitational was announced this weekend …