So new years has come and gone and as usual that night in the restaurant industry is total madness. My restaurant for example did four times the business that we normaly do in a given night. The chef then wisly decided to make sure that it was him, me, and the other most experienced line cook working that night. Read more »

RIP Betty page... You were a goddess in your time.

So today for fun I decided to make some pretencious french food.

Wait I hear you cry, there is no french food that is not pretencious! Wrong, dead wrong in fact, but we are not going to get into the details of wonderful brasseries, or humble bistro food. Read more »

So what does one do for turkey day? Well if you a member of this house not the normal roasted turkey.

A rundown of the menu.

Masa cakes with confit of porkbelly and pickeled vegetables

Spicy tomato soup with shrimp meatballs

Cucumber, jicima, and mango salad with lime and salt

Turkey mole

Rustic apple tart with creme fraishe

V2.0 of thanksgiving was a little more traditional meal I had friends that could not do a thanksgiving dinner for their famliy (timing issue) so I made one, Read more »

So I wander by after chatting with the lovly shesaid and find you all here, sitting around playing nintendo, and drinking beer.

So why didnt I get the invite?

As for me now on to culinary school and past, into a grueling (yes notice the spelling pun) B.S. in nutrition. I have now decided to unload upon you all the unsuspecting and oh so virgin population of unplugged my vast font of knowlege on all things involving food. And what ever else I decide to spout off with.

Ah the concert a time honered tradition of standing around in a group of drunken idiots listening often times to musicians that are in reality so over produced that they are unable to entertain any one live.

Tonight I did not go to that concert, or at least not part of it. Tonight I saw Secret Chiefs III and Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. Lets do a bit of a vivisection of this concert shall we?

Venue: The Bluebird theater here in denver. Its a lovely old theater with a bar on the main floor and a balcony for the kiddies who are too young to drink. Read more »

Partnership is a funny thing. It seems that the exact right type of events have to take place for one to work. As of yet, I have not found a good perminent partner, or even semi perminet. I have in fact decided that most of the people I have any chance of working well with have already found partners they work well with, and are not shopping around for new ones, despite my cold calling campaign. Read more »

ignore all of this....

ogga booga... 

So here we go, the big run up to 2008 has started. Obama and Clinton being two big players for us Dems, and oh god Guliani and Tancredo for the GOP. Read more »