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Save Your A/C - Ice Cream at Diddy Riese
With high heat of summer now upon us, we turn to alternative sources of cooling. Last year, boba was all the rage. This year, it’s gelato. But what about good old fashioned…ice cream? Diddy Riese in Westwood can bring the chill for just a dollar.
Which makes us wonder, how on earth does Diddy Riese stay [...]
Stick a Feather in Your Cap and Call it Macaroonie!
Well, with all the fuss in LA’s food world, more specifically in the bakery world, on macarons, those tiny pastel colored cookies made from almonds, sometimes filled with cream or chocolate… I thought I’d go back to the original macaroon that I knew - the kind made from coconut.
With only four ingredients that are simply [...]
Summer is Rum-er
This Appleton Estate rum was a gift from a friend who brought it all the way back from a trip to Jamaica. He got to kick back on the beach and listen to the steel drums for a week, and I get is this bottle of rum? Lucky me. *roll eyes*
Not a bad deal, actually. [...]
While You Wait…Origami
A long time ago, in Ohio, mind you, I started making a chopstick perch whenever we went to Chinese restaurants (back then, Cincinnati didn’t have much else in the way of Asian). It’s become now my own personal ritual before I eat any food with chopsticks. A little bit of origami while I wait for [...]
Tofu Brat-worst?
The image of the flower-dog from yesterday reminded me of another pseudo-dog I got to try this year - a tofu bratwurst.
See, tofu has gone all-American. As much as non-vegetarins make fun of them, we’re all familir with tofuburgers, but the thing that was new to me was this tofu bratwurst. It very much [...]
Blue Marlin Gets Loony with Uni
The Japanese have this weird thing with Italian food, as if you couldn’t figure that out from Masahiko Kobe, Iron Chef Italian. Many modern Japanese menus have Italian influences, from curry houses serving curry over spaghetti noodles to putting cheese in ramen and udon. Some day I will try to figure out the whole development [...]
McSmoothiebucks Does it Again
Jamba Juice has a new line of energy drinks that go with their new slogan, “Get Positively Charged!”And to give their new products a kick start in the market, they sent me, yes me! a coupon for a free drink! Wait, you got one, too?
I decided to try the Acai Supercharger. The superfruit, acai, contains [...]
The Versatility of Egg Roll Wrappers - Fig, Goat Cheese, and Prosciutto Won Tons
I have a lot of eggroll wrappers left over from a project, and have found that these are amazingly versatile. Today, they make Mediterr-asian wontons.
What a challenge these ingredients are, from slapping my own hand away from one of my main ingredients as I kept popping pieces of prosciutto, to trying to determine if the [...]
