“This is a very very good Japanese restaurant,” the Dutch guy said. I made a reservation just in case. But it was hibachi. Super expensive. Super overcooked. Super greasy. And super awkward sitting around a crowded hibachi grill, surrounded by couples on dates. The cook smacked his knife on the grill often. I thought of [...]
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Benihana…Balls.
Posted in the kitchen, tagged restaurants on April 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Nature or Nurture?
Posted in the kitchen on April 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Seems I might be taking after pop. The Bud? It’s fine. Stage right- bacon fat.
If you can’t stand the heat
Posted in the kitchen on January 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I decided to pre-heat the oven for pizza without checking if the oven was empty. Heat-1, Rising bread dough-0
I Bought it, I’m going to use it
Posted in the kitchen on December 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The windchill was well negative, but my hands were warm if I stuck them in the wok. Frying on the back porch with our propane stove is far better than splattering our gas range with oil so it smells like a french-fry-oil-burning volkswagen rabbit. And the wok is sweet- I paid like $2/pound at the [...]
Cooking in the Dangerous Kitchen
Posted in the kitchen on December 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Adam’s cooking is as adventurous and improvisatory as Frank Zappa’s Dangerous Kitchen. In the same way that Zappa uses a highly developed sprechstimme style (where the words are spoken and yet sung at the same time), Adam takes a basic recipe and articulates the flavors in his own way. The notion of cooking takes on [...]
You could die from the Danger
Posted in the kitchen on December 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The dangerous kitchen If it ain’t one thing it’s another In the middle of the night when you get home The bread things are all dry ‘n’ scratchy The meat things Where the cats ate through the paper The can things with the sharp little edges That can cut your fingers when you’re not looking [...]
