because the convalescent pup needs bones to keep her happy for the 60 (now 45!!) days of crate rest, we ordered 40 pounds of meat + bones from the wonderful people at Slankers. yes we had to fulfill the minimum by adding people meat parts to the order.
so drool over this:
coffee/cumin dry-rubbed meaty spare ribs [...]
eating toffee is sort of like having a #19 from Langer’s. you don’t want to share it with anyone, you want the whole damn thing for yourself. it’s like if you only eat half a sandwich/piece your head keeps turning right and left as if something’s missing. hiding the other half of the sandwich is [...]
last fall a great Italian friend of mine was hired by the Met and i took a trip out there to show him—a babe in the woods as far as having never left the Florentine motherland—the glories of Bed Bath and Beyond & Ikea and to argue the necessity of spending the money for a [...]
February 11, 2010 – 9:38 pm
did i miss something or when did meat start looking like DVDs? will the full color booklets explain exactly what the difference is between the photograph for Tyson’s Beef Brisket vs. the one for Tyson’s Pork Loin (is it just the addition of a single tomato) or why the Hormel Italian Style Beef Roast says [...]
February 10, 2010 – 3:20 pm
help is on the way for iphone users buried by the Snowmaggedon. you don’t need to take your gloves off, or buy those expensive electrostatically-enhanced gloves. just get yourself a fancy schmancy meat stylus aka Korean snack sausage and check the weather with ease. i LOVE the fact you can chew on one end and [...]
February 8, 2010 – 9:52 pm
some things never seem to make sense together, unless you put them all inside a funny afternoon called “going to take photos of an organic avocado farm.”
20 some acres on the top of a hill in Camarillo, the farm has mostly avocados but they also grow citrus, cherimoyas, plums and heirloom apples. their dog Astro [...]
February 7, 2010 – 9:09 am
while the east coast deals with its “Snowmaggedon,” we get (along the 14 freeway near Acton, anyway) a rather on and off storm, big raindrops followed by small patches of sun. it’s like going through the MooGooGaiPan tunnel, only bigger.
start by driving INTO the storm:
stop at your friendly double-double In and Out burger:
come out to [...]
January 21, 2010 – 9:10 pm
there’s never a day without google: packing up two dogs for a road trip from Los Angeles to New Mexico started with finding a nice place just outside of town for a quick hike, then we had the realization that the car seemed so nicely packed because we forgot the dog food (doh!). so google [...]
December 30, 2009 – 5:41 pm
good news for middle-aged Finns