Senior Inspiration for cooking
Abalone
ABALONE SASHIMI in a few steps. After driving a million miles and diving with the great white sharks… assuming you were successful and your limbs are somewhat in tact… take it out of the shell with a rice spoon or similar…
fortune cookie makin'
so, I don’t make dessert. unless you want a ribeye for dessert… trying to figure out how to make fortune cookies… loll #random 1am texts in preparation for www.LAPICNIC.org event. Yeah it’s for a good charity 🙂 come support.
Eating Wild Game
“Eating wild game and hunting last year with you before we opened the restaurant made me a better chef. It did. I realized how good it can taste. How good it should taste.” – Ori Menashe, Bestia raw almonds from the farm the wild boars tear up at night
"Hookup" Ragu
wild boar legs and shoulders marinating in wine & aromatics & herbs There’s a few principles that I use whether in a duck ragu, a wild boar ragu, or oxtail vaccinara. 1) I like to use the best quality meat in my ragus (all of my dishes, really). I see chefs doing expensive pop ups …
Sept 7 Meals on Wheels LA Picnic
I’m pretty blessed to be part of this crew, (read part 1 here) and to be helping this amazing organization St. Vincent Meals on Wheels. http://stvincentmow.org/ Voltaggio won top chef season 6. Ray Garcia won the Cochon competition for pig. Neal Fraser is an LA Standout chef. All the others are legit with some of …
Midnight Mission – 2 Wild Boars
I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. 2000 meals! #foodislove www.midnightmission.org
400 pound wild boars
boom boom boom. #45 and #46 from the last 3 months go down.
Snapshots from the field
A few pictures from the field – a snippet, a glimpse, a snapshot of what is Driving through almond fields mighty ducks crazy clouds and crazy cows moonrise ahead and the simultaneous sunset behind
Monday's Schedule
2am finish blogging 8am wake up to go to Newport Beach to check out a wedding location 11am do a walk through of the kitchen and the space 12 noon meet up with pilot @foodtravelinsider for french pressed coffee (and he brought back amazing Pecorino from Sardinia 1:30pm eat pho in Westminster 3pm do work in …
Yellowtail Sashimi
Sashimi is one of the things that YELLS GET THE BEST INGREDIENTS and then process it right. (READ: catch) the best fish, then processit correctly – that involves bleeding it & allowing it, at least for yellowtail, to go through rigor mortis to break down the cell structure and in turn, make the flesh more tender. …
Fast food
Fast food is convenient for saving time and money, but in the end, there is no convenience for the animals. And i’m sure lacking convenience for human health.