You know you’re a “locavore” when…the local paper does an article about eating locally and you personally know everyone quoted in the article.
The San Diego Union Tribune’s food section this week was dedicated to the “County’s Bounty,” in the form of an article on eating locally by respected beer columnist (and reporter) Pete Rowe. Thanks [...]
La Locavore de BBQ
OLS Week #6: Plank-Grilled Fish
To me, nothing says summer like corn on the cob hot off the grill. This week’s meal was a delicious excuse to indulge.
The Meal:
Plank Grilled Wahoo and Swordfish with Apricot Sauce
Corn on the Cob and Foil-Roasted Squash Medley
Simple and classic–it doesn’t get more summery.
OLS Weeks 4 & 5
It’s OLS catch-up day! (I apologize for the brevity of this post, but I’ve got a batch of homebrew going and I keep leaping up from the computer to tend to it).
Week 4:
Week 4 found me with a dozen friends over for a backyard barbeque, and the pleasure of realizing I could feed them locally. [...]
One Local Summer Week # 3: Grouper!
Ah, me and OLS–there’s always a reason for me to get behind. While busy weekends have kept me from posting, they haven’t kept me from eating delicious local meals. Here’s my meal from OLS week 3 which was easily my favorite meal of the summer so far.
This week I stopped by the World Famous Smoked [...]
One Local Summer Week #2: Elk!
Ok, I took some liberties with “local” this week, when I decided to explore the depths of my freezer and came across two elk ribeye steaks that a friend had given me last summer. The meat comes from his family’s ranch in Minot, North Dakota, and was part of an enormous dry-ice packed cooler that [...]
This is the Week of Tom Waits
In anticipation of next week’s show at the orpheum, I’m declaring 6/9-6/13 the Week of Tom Waits. Basically, this involves listening to the entire Tom Waits disography, in order, broken up into about five albums a day. For anyone who wants to partake, here’s Monday’s line up:
Closing Time
The Heart of Saturday Night
Nighthawks at the Diner
Small [...]
Tom Waits plays Phoenix
6/17 at the Orpheum. Anticipation is high!
One Local Summer Week 1
This week was the first week of one local summer, and I kicked it off with a classic: steak and potatoes.
Ok, it was a little more involved than just steak and potatoes. Here were the dishes:
Cherry & Vanilla Porter Marinated Tri-Tip with Porter-Glazed Shitake Mushrooms
Grilled Artichokes with Sauteed Grape Tomatoes and Dill
Tri-Color Medley of [...]
Eating local and summer
It dawned on me the other week that had been almost a year since the start of last year’s One Local Summer. The exercise involved committing to eat one completely local meal just once a week, for each week of the summer. It was amazing, and that is an understatement. I started out knowing [...]
TIJ=around the corner
sometimes, it’s just more fun to fool around with site design than to write. Tonight, my hours were consumed with thanksgivinginjuly.com. Check it out!