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.
Nov 16
blue bottle garage Dignified and delicious: Blue Bottle’s got the west coast cornered in terms of proper espresso… but no one, that’s no one, comes close to Joe’s. 
Nov 06
signage
May 23
hedgehogs (珍 珠 丸 子) Count the number on your plate before leaving the room: Ground pork, bamboo, ginger, shitake mushrooms, and soy sauce balls rolled in glutinous rice and steamed for half hour. The individual kernels of rice perk up like the gentlest kitty shug, and the bamboo gives the pork the “gabba gabba” quality so essential in Chinese [...]
May 23
the last of the favas Sadness comes but once a year: Fava beans at the last harvest. They bow out gracefully, the plump favas, though we try to give them enough time to give us one more little pod.
May 23
pandoro Pandoro is Patience’s Reward: The narrative needs very few words. The recipe, six eggs, some flour, butter, honey, vanilla, cocoa butter, sugar, a super hearty sourdough starter, and instant yeast (you will need the kind that is tolerant of osmos, like SAF Gold). Blend together (over 2 hours of mixing, your machine will get tired) [...]
May 23
compost Feeding frenzy: Our red wrigglers are about to receive a biological feast. Full of coffee, orange peels and fava bean discards, the meal promotes cardio and muscular development in the little guys.
May 05
fava beans Digging for gold: The little fava beans come individually nestled inside a stiff cocoon, and these are lined up 3, 4 or 5 in a row inside a fur sleeping bag. From the original pile of pods, to shedding its many layers, to being stir-fried with garlic, it’s definitely a what-you-get-is-not-what-you-eat situation.
Apr 25
osmanthus Guardians: If you’re tooling around Monterey Park you might as well stop in at the San Gabriel Nursery. If you make it past the Orchid zone, the air starts to smell like Sweet Ozmanthus and pretty soon you’ll be trying to fit two pots into the back of your car. Not a bad way to [...]
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