Jun 02
La Casa Maia meets the Aardvark say hello to La Casa Maia and thanks to Aardvark Letterpress
May 25
tired (for scale)
May 21
sunshine
Apr 14
Blagojevich & H.R. Pufnstuf: separated at birth?
Mar 30
sanderleg
Mar 29
pea squeeze shamrock soup: here’s a wonderful recipe from the LA Times for LA Mill’s pea soup, but what to do with the squeezings? add asiago chunks and grated parmesan cheese, olive oil (or an egg), and fry the patties up!!
Mar 27
Shoulder to lean on “done” is not quite the right word, but you don’t need teeth to eat it: pork shoulder braised for hours in soy sauce, wine, ginger, maple syrup, sichuan peppercorns, scallions, garlic, cilantro and chili peppers. YUM!
Jan 06
duck fat The land of the malleable: comes from cooking duck confit, rhymes with “cat.”
Dec 16
MOCA bake sale is a success!The bake sale went great, thanks to the MOCA staff who showed up in force, to Morgan Fisher who brought cupcakes (which sold like hotcakes), Allan Sekula for documenting the whole thing and buying up a large portion of the Allen McCollum works, Christopher Knight for writing it up so well and to Judy Fiskin [...]
Dec 16
Christopher Knight is going to the bakesaleAre you? http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2008/12/moca-bake-sale.html
Dec 15
(Rain Delay) Bake Sale to benefit MOCA++ follow cheesed and fromaged on twitter for live updates and photos ++ ARTISTS’ BAKE SALE FOR MOCA: TUESDAY 12-2pm (Because of the rain we are rescheduling the bake sale to Tuesday, December 16.) MOCA needs tens of millions of dollars, and we want to get the ball rolling - the day the board meets - with a bake sale! We’re a [...]
Dec 14
work in progressitems for the MOCA bake sale: “Giacometti Baguetti” (view the original in the MOCA Collection) “Fermented Weiner” (view the original in the MOCA Collection) “Paranoiac Shortbread” (view the original in the MOCA Collection) “$1 million financiers” (view the original in the MOCA Collection)
Nov 29
beurre Licensed to butter part 2: front start to finish. 1. Protect yourself from what you want. As the butter and buttermilk separate, it will splatter like crazy. Begin whipping the cream (we used raw unpasteurized cream). 2. Don’t forget to soak your butter paper 3. The whipped cream stage 4. Adding sel à la cannelle (cinnamon salt) 5. Butter [...]
Nov 26
tea eggs and blue shrimp Precious eggs imprinted with code: eggs boiled in Small Red Robe tea, soy sauce, brown and rock sugar, ginger, and leftover pork shoulder stew juices. The shrimp you just put in your mouth.
Nov 22
stir-fry veggies Tackling the green beast: swirling mass of greens and garlic.
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