December 2008
7 posts
On the bookshelf: The House at Sugar Beach.
My favorite pizza in the whole world, hands down, is St. Paul in Turin. Amazing pizza, paper-thin crust, with a thin layer of salt on the bottom. Unfortunately, they do not deliver to my place in Pasadena, so tonight we are going to eat pizza at Zelo’s in Arcadia. Now, normally I am not a big fan of deep dish pizza, but this stuff is amazing. All the ingredients are made fresh at the...
On Saturday I’m headed to see The School of Night at Mark Taper Forum with my friend Erin. I encourage all my readers to support local theater and arts.
Today we’ve got a recipe that is part my own and part from the Joy of cooking. I’ve tweaked it enough that I can give it a new name. It is a one-pot dish - vegetables, meat & seafood, all in a tasty broth. For those of you trying to stay healthy, it is also (relatively) low-fat, high-fiber, high-protein and easy to change up for people that don’t eat ham (Muslims and Max L)....
The best description of the credit crisis I have read or listened to is The Giant Pool of Money on This American Life. I strongly recommend you take a listen - I downloaded the podcast for 95 cents and listened while I did cardio.
Spent last week in Memphis for the Thanksgiving holiday. In addition to the normal Thanksgiving feast (see link below) I ate Payne’s barbeque several times. When I’m coming in town, my mom usually just orders a whole pork shoulder so that we can save ourselves the trouble of multiple trips. We made a trip to the Hi-Tone (now run by my old buddy Jonathan Kiersky) to see my...
Noodle Kugel
This is my kugel recipe, which I got from my grandmother. It tastes like December, like my grandmother’s house, like the Hanukkah when I got a game boy, like dinner with the Goldsteins and the Goodmans on Shabbos. The first time I made this was the spring of 1999, for my International Management class party at the professor’s house. We all had to bring something from our...