Farmer’s Market Loot: 6.22.23
Melons! What the hell Weiser Farms?!? All of a sudden the weather turned a corner. It’s sunny here again in Santa Monica, just in time for the summer solstice (middle of the year for you non hippies) there’s stone fruit aplenty, and of course, Weiser Farm melons are beginning to trickle in. For those of…
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Farmer’s Market Loot: 6.22.23
Melons! What the hell Weiser Farms?!? All of a sudden the weather turned a corner. It’s sunny here again in Santa Monica, just in time for the summer solstice (middle of the year for you non hippies) there’s stone fruit aplenty, and of course, Weiser Farm melons are beginning to trickle in. For those of…
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The Seasonal Bar Continued…
Some thoughts here about the introduction to the book and what it wants to be. Just going to free write from here, release some of the hounds inside my head. I’m thinking now it will be stories intertwined with recipes. I have all of the recipe stuff finished and when I come up with new…
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New Cocktail: Umami Issues
This one came about from a mixture of different ideas that coalesced from a bunch of leftover shit. Ha. That’s usually how it goes around here. Number one, I wanted a drink with powerful, long lasting umami flavor. Number two, I wanted to use up a bunch of larder items. The closet was beginning to…
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Restaurant Review: Crudo e Nudo
First off, I’d like to mention that Crudo e Nudo is a sustainable restaurant business and not just from the perspective of providing overpriced local seafood and organic ingredients to the populace but the owners also treat their employees incredibly well. A few articles have already been written about Crudo e Nudo’s business model, what…
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Father’s Day 2023
Up early to pee. 7:12 a.m. sharp. A quick diagnosis of the aches and pains of the morning. The outside bottom of my left foot…Quite puzzling–potential emergence of gout? The outside of my right knee, the lateral collateral ligament (LCL) feels slightly sprained. Something is going on with the tendons in my left bicep. A…
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New Cocktail: Quato Lives
Yeah, I changed Kuato to Quato. So what? Let’s focus on the why. First off, fresh loquats, then kumquat scraps. After making sort of fermented kumquat-vanilla syrup there’s a bunch of waste leftover. This went into several different areas. There’s some shrub, then some infusion confusion vodka/pisco concoction but also a little Old Fashioned Traditional…
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Service Musings: A Moment of Life and Wisdom Gleaned from Being Deep in the Shits
Ok…Let’s see here. PGA Tour thingie in town. Check. End of year high school and college graduations aplenty. Check. Two new managers on the floor. Check. Newish host. Check. Chef out sick. Check. Second bartender out sick. Check. Mega amount of reservations. Check. Yup. Good old Murphy. We love you so much. Luckily I smelled…
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Cormac McCarthy
Like the blurb says, the above picture is from the dust jacket photo from Blood Meridian, 1985. It was the first McCarthy book I read. Handed to me by my ex-girlfriend, N. It was one of those deep winter relationships that lasted just until spring. The woman, not the book. You’d have to live in…
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New Cocktail: Sunshower
South of the border tiki? Why the hell not? This one comes directly from the young brain of Mr. Martinez. A special he ran on my days off. It contains all his favorite ingredients. Sunshower 1.5 oz. Rooster Rojo Pineapple Añejo 1 oz. Fresh Lime Juice .5 oz. Orange Curaçao .5 oz. Cachaça .5 oz.…
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Late Night at Ralphs
Yes, fellow Angelenos, I’m sure at some point you’ve heeded the call and ended up at a 24 hour Ralphs at some point. Oh yes, the despair, the hilarity, the drunken fools you’ll see! For those of you living in other, less pre-apocalyptic places, Ralphs is a lower-mid grade grocery store on the LA food…
The Aging Bartender 