Why is it that liver is one of the grossest foods out there, but fattened duck liver is one of the tastiest? We went to the Breadbar to find out what happens when you make ramen out of foie gras. They normally do bread, but for one month they have guest chefs Ironnori & Kazu [...]
Every so often, I’ll hear about someone who doesn’t know who the Flying Spaghetti Monster is, and it makes me sad. It also makes baby Jesus cry. Flying Spaghetti Monster is the awesomest diety out there. He’s made of pasta and full of noodly goodness. He created Earth after drinking a lot. The Pope even [...]
I hadn’t been updating my blog as much as I should have. I’ve actually been doing lots of fun art stuff this spring, so I wanted to post about some of them. Eliot’s Birthday! Me and my friends went over-the-top with strange and sometimes edible art projects. First, Erin (readiness) and I made hacker cupcakes [...]
Chris (cnelson) showed me a video about augmented reality cookies, and I knew that had to be the next baking project. The premise behind this is to hold a cookie with a special mark on it, and a webcam would render a shape over the cookie, even if you rotated it. We were going to [...]
When Chris mentioned that there was an animal out there called Toky0-X that is genetically engineered to be the tastiest animal out there, we knew we had to try it. Tokyo-X is a real, legit animal. It was created by cross-breeding Durok (US), Berkshire (UK), and Beijing Black (China) pigs together. It took seven years [...]
Every year for our birthday, Dave and I throw a party called NinjaPenguin. This year was NinjaPenguin 4, held at the Good Nite Bar in North Hollywood. Every year, we do a crazy cake. The first year was a penguin. The second was 2girls1cup. The third was longcat. This year… we proudly introduce the META [...]
A couple days ago Chris asked me if I was busy Saturday. Then he and Erin suprised me and Dave with tickets to Six Taste’s Bizarre Food Challenge, a culinary tour across strange foods from China. Our friends know us well. This was the first time Six Taste was doing the tour, and it was [...]
Nym came by so I made breakfast for him and Dave – Flying Spaghetti Monsters! These were cool cuz the pasta is actually baked into the meatballs. They were also really yummy. Inspired by http://dabbled.org/2009/11/make-a-yummy-flying-spaghetti-monster.html More pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinguino/sets/72157622805693556/
Last Thursday I wanted to suprise Dave with dinner. I had him choose from a long list of animals, and he chose the most ordinary one: the chicken. It was a challenge to make chicken fancy, but I hunted through about 100 recipes before I came across the Chicken Saltimbocca on Food Network. Basically, its [...]
I’ve had many people through the years tell me that I was a terrible cook. Rightfully so, since seafood pasta was dumping a can of clam chowder over some overcooked noodles, or mixing up a batch of Kraft Mac’n’Cheese. I’m not sure what it was that finally led me down the path of making things [...]
