Category: food

09 Feb

pot on pot off posole

orange on the outside and orange on the inside: posole made with pork shoulder, red chili from Chimayo and creamer potatoes. 
29 Nov

kabocha creme caramel

dense and soft and melt in your mouth: eggs, whipping cream, kabocha pumpkin and caramelized sugar makes for a bite sized creamy snack.
29 Mar

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!!
27 Mar

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!
06 Jan

duck fat

The land of the malleable: comes from cooking duck confit, rhymes with “cat.”
16 Dec

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 [...]
15 Dec

(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 [...]
14 Dec

work in progress

items 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)
29 Nov

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 [...]
26 Nov

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.