Playing With My Food ~
A journal about food, thought, travel, and life; by Chef & Raconteur Chaz French.

Playing With Web Things

Yes, I know, I’ve been failing to write, it happens.  Right now my time is consumed with finding work, and working on recipes which won’t get posted here, but will be used in my business plan.  That’s right, business plan!  I’ve had an idea for a food business and am scrawling down thoughts, plans, target […]

I got some mail today…

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Bleargh…

So much going on, no time to write. Seems to be the way life has become. There’s also this little side-project to get me to move to Squarespace, which has me not wanting to play in WordPress. So what’s going on? I finished culinary school. I’m moving from NYC to Berkeley, CA I’m starting an […]

Braised Short Rib Tomato Sauce With Homemade Pasta

This took 3 evenings to make. 1 to braise the ribs, 1 to make the sauce and 1 to make the pasta and put it all together. The short ribs were first seared, then braised in mirepoix, wine, stock, salt, and pepper for three hours. The liquid was saved (fat removed), and the ribs were […]

Mark Zuckerberg is NOT a douche bag…

He’s a cunt. Zuckerberg Speaks! New Privacy Settings Coming to Facebook (But no Rollbacks) Tweet

I only wish I’d thought to make corn bread.

I made oven roasted (seared, then braised, then roasted) bbq pork ribs, the bbq flavor is all in the sauce. Served with roasted potatoes and carrots, and a nice roll oven toasted and buttered. Tweet

New Song

“I’ve been waiting for so long To come here now and sing this song…” This morning my buddy @mikeypod shared this video on Facebook. It took me back, watching the video, and for some reason it made the lyrics stand out once again for me, the way they did in 1983. “This is a song […]

Murder on a Sunday Afternoon

My hands are Murder Red. The results will be eaten. Salad of roasted beets, lemon zest, parsley oil, & crumbled chevre, currently being made. Tweet

Self revelation

Today, for the first time in my life, when faced with the question “Why do you want to work here?” I had an easy answer several paragraphs long, and could have gone on longer. That felt good. Tweet

Citrus & Spice Bread Pudding

Hate away, bitches, hate away… Recipe will come when it’s perfected, for now you can drool. Tweet