Slow roasted sirloin, slow braised broccoli

6/1/2011

Last night’s dinner

5/25/2011

Sometimes it’s easy to throw together a quick dinner using leftovers.

A 5-course dinner

3/29/2011

I made a fairly extravagant dinner for someone special the other day. Here are some photos. I will update with descriptions/processes when I have some more time.

Pear-shallot brown butter bruschetta

12/25/2010

Roast pears, caramelized shallots, thyme, pecans, blue cheese, brown butter ciabatta croutons

Chipotle. WTF.

9/12/2010

I love Chipotle. Out of all the fast-mex restaurants out there (Baja Fresh, Rubio’s, Sharky’s), I think Chipotle tastes the best, and the price is right. I also appreciate their small menu. One time my mom got me a $100 gift card and I think I ate there like 8 days in a row. When [...]

it was 42 degrees last night

That’s 6 degrees Celsius. So I made lentil soup. And I’ve decided that every time I cook something, I’m going to publish it to my little corner of the Web. 1 small yellow onion, 2 carrots, 2 celery stalks, 6 cremini mushrooms, small dice (1/4 in) 3 garlic cloves, chopped (2mm) 1 tsp chopped thyme [...]

a plate of cold jellyfish makes me want a box of sharp objects

The company that I work for Monday through Friday (let’s call it “Lazydouche”) had its holiday party this last weekend. Given that Lazydouche runs a $25M per year racket and is headquartered in Long Beach, CA, there was only one logical place to have the party. That’s right, a motherfucking Chinese restaurant in Alhambra! The [...]

Maybe the best restaurant in the world

Orange, on the edge of Reykjavik harbor, is maybe the best restaurant in the world. Okay, the food at Per Se is better, but do they have alcoholic slurpees? No. So I was wondering where to have dinner tonight, knowing that today was my last chance to eat the famous Icelandic lamb. I walked past [...]

why iceland sucks at football

9/12/2008

So, Wednesday night I attended the Island v. Skotland World Cup qualifier match. It. was. awesome. In addition to thousands of kilt-wearing Scotsmen (and approximately 2 skirt-wearing Scotswomen) patrolling the streets of Reykjavik, you had kids wearing Viking helmets in the Icelandic color palette and other displays of national pride. In US and A, wearing [...]

Reykjavik day 7 – lunch

9/11/2008

It’s a beautiful day today, 60 degrees and sunny, so today I’ll be walking around randomly some more. My first stop is the Seafood Cellar, a restaurant that comes highly recommended by my flight attendant on Icelandair. There’s a bit of a problem, though: what am I supposed to do with bread, oil and chopped [...]