Archive for the ‘Savory’ Category

“Soup tastes like dirty water. (So does tea.)” For some, soup is a paltry imitation of a real dish. Much like how chicken and turkey are a lesser form of protein than beef, pork, lamb, and fish in my eyes. To be fair, those who think soup is simply a waste of a bowl of [...]

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Salsa Rosa.

27Jan12

There is very little better in this world than a taco. The tortilla, the filling, the extras, the practically requisite pool of grease—a taco is one of the culinary realm’s greatest (savory) inventions. Think of the last taco you consumed. Even if it was a relatively low-end taco, (looking at you Flash Taco), the kind [...]

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Hummus, the dip that has taken over the world. And the best part is, it can be made out of anything, any-bean, any-spice. Click here for the recipe, and to read more.


There is always a moment of guilt when, standing in the kitchen, you’re faced with the option of adding bacon. Bacon to breakfast, bacon to that turkey club, bacon to the mashed potatoes, bacon to the salad…bacon, in its salty crispness, plays extremely well with others. Which means, sometimes the only thing keeping bacon off [...]

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Cucumber kimchi…good enough to get paid in. Click here for the recipe, and to read more.


The kitchen is a weird place. Sometimes, things get a little crazy. For example, when the parents flee for a couple days, and only the children remain, the kitchen can turn from a place of spotless surfaces and a well-stocked fridge into a cityscape built out of dirty dishes and empty cracker and cookie boxes. [...]

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There is a bakery in Los Angeles, just off La Brea on Beverly. It is called MILK, and as far as I can tell, it is the one of the few bakery havens in the city. Last year, I went on a cake-tour of Los Angeles, only to conclude that the best cake in Los [...]

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Kale Chips.

05Dec11

A burger habit is an unhealthy habit. A burger habit in Los Angeles, at Father’s Office, is an expensive, unhealthy habit. But it tastes so good. Despite the pangs in the heart muscles, as those poor little arteries try to pump blood after ingesting so much meat—so much fat—producing ‘squish, squish’ oily kind of feeling [...]

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Many tricks in cooking and baking—those two mystical practices that happen in at the Altar of the Kitchen—are less tricky than they would appear, or have been built up to be. Pie crust, biscuits, rice on the stove, the perfect sear; these are all tricks that done correctly once, with just the right timing, temperature, [...]

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For quite some time now, my father, siblings, and I have been trying to convince my mother to make a chicken for Thanksgiving. The main points of our proposal being; a chicken is shaped like a turkey a chicken provides all the same benefits as a turkey i.e. stuffing cavity, drippings for gravy, crispy skin, [...]

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