a contumacious chef's culinary curmudgeonry
My usual supplier for fresh bread is sick this week and I’m trying out a local French bakery. The baguettes are divine and deserve some special attention. Since I had some pork loin left over, I butchered it into chops and made this sandwich special. The chops are marinaded in a peppery sauce, then pan [...]
It is no secret that I am a lover of bacon. A representative and shining example of all three culinary baselines, fat, sugar, and salt, bacon is to food what Louis Armstrong’s “Wonderful World” is to a first date. Going about adding more bacon to one’s diet offers a number of different venues. At the [...]
I kind of don’t get it. On one hand, WordPress.com kicks Cutline and Pressrow, since those were themes developed by Chris Pearson whom Matt and WordPress just had a few rows with. On the other hand, WordPress still, happily, uses MySQL. Which is owned by Oracle. Oracle, it must be said, who has never been [...]
The San Francisco post has to wait a few days. I am more or less still in (positive) culinary shock from a week of dining, meeting old friends, making new ones, and falling madly in love with Tingly Lamb, sorting all that out will take a day or two. In the mean time, to issue [...]
And we’re back in the saddle, wielding the mighty lance of truth and scientific endeavor against the black knight of stupid dietary fads and quickly greenwashed wool pulled firmly over the eyes of its followers.
I am SO out of my league here, but figured I’d try it anyways. This morning, getting up at five and all, I made Weisswurst. Despite its looks, this is not what’s known to Canadians, Cajun, and other Frenchmen as “boudin blanc“, instead it’s a veal and bacon based mixture (boudin is pork, not surprising [...]
… but we’re switching to the Genesis Theme Framework after much contemplation. Run-down of the whole thing can be found at this post. In the meantime, please enjoy this picture of a knackwurst:
Much hubbub has been had about the (almost epic) fight between Matt Mullenweg, speaking for WordPress and – as far as most people are concerned – the sanctity of the GPL, and Chris Pearson waving the banner of Thesis and paid, non-GPL, premium themes. I use Thesis on this site. Other than that, I have [...]
Regular readers (all three of you) know, that I don’t eat or serve veal. Unless, that is, it’s raised with its mother instead of being nailed into a box and fed ProViMi (a mix of – you guessed it – Proteins, Vitamins, and Minerals). This is where your veal should come from: Taken at the [...]
Gordon Ramsay is wrong. No, not about that “head chef” myth Fox and he are spreading despite the fact that not one winner in six seasons was made head chef (and, seeing the quality of cooks, I can’t say I am surprised). And, no, not about calling amateur cooks “Master Chef” after six weeks of [...]
My name isn’t exactly common. In most cases I am able to get jluster as my username. There’s one other Jonas Luster in the world, and he’s 87 and in Sweden. Yet, gmail, oh faithful mail delivery and reading tool of mine, regularly reminds me that there are some others out there who share that [...]
