gutfud – the food, es ist gut

homemade peeps

Hello, San Diego! Wanderlust is a little pilot light always burning. Corporate life has kept it in check, but it backfired recently. I simply have too much time off accrued. I’ve fallen behind on my out-of-town friendships, too. So I packed my bags and drove to San Diego for a little vacation. Hanging with Valerie [...]

Dinner with friends

The sausage fest gang, or at least the primary players, sent out an invitation to dinner. The food would be a mystery, just show up. I like that. But some of us did request some guidance on what to bring that would complement the meal, so eventually Nathan committed himself to making coq au vin. [...]

Momofuku’s banh mi

My mother is having way too much fun with my Momofuku cookbook, I fear I will never get it back. The upside is that I get invited over to eat what she makes, compared to the cookbook sitting at my place, unused because I’ve been too lazy to cook. Today’s Momofuku experiment was the banh [...]

new apron!

Late last year I helped organize a number of craft vendors for an alternative Christmas market and party down in the Funk Zone. It was an amazing opportunity to get in touch and work with a number of local artists in town, some I’d never heard of prior to the event. One woman I’d hoped [...]

preserved lemons

I’ve been making preserved lemons since my trip to Morocco around 2002, for studies. Every market sold piles of them. They were used in a number of recipes but primarily for the chicken tajine with lemons and olives. I used to make that dish a lot more often, too, in the early 2000′s, when I [...]

Breakfast with Sandrine

Sandrine and I have been trying to catch up with each other more often. It’s been getting harder with changes in jobs, and her having kids. December and January were also bad due to recurring illnesses, we were both disappointed that she had to miss the Edible conference in late January from being sick or [...]

deep fried turkey

Where have I been during the deep fried turkey fad? About five or six years ago it seemed that everyone was trying to make deep fried turkey for their holiday meal. Not just because I heard about it awesome turkey, but because of all the reported accidents involving an enormous pot of boiling oil and [...]

Chinese New Year feast

Gong hay fat choy y’alls. There was a time that my family had the big feast with nine auspicious courses, maybe more. And people trying to sneak into the house to get at the food. It’s quieter these days, and no longer the big To Do, but it’s great to still have a couple close [...]

brussels sprouts

This time of the season the markets are selling heaps of fat Brussels sprouts. My fondness of this vegetable grew from my time in England, when it was part of a traditional Sunday roast, or a holiday dinner. At the height of its season, these were cheap and plentiful at the street markets, so an [...]

tangerines and a camera story

I got a smartphone last May, a gift from my brother, and by June the camera on the phone broke. This was very disappointing since the camera was one of the more desirable features I was seeking by switching over to a phone which doubled my cellular service fees. It crapped out while I was [...]