Playing With My Food ~ An online journal about food, thought, travel, and life, by chef & internet raconteur Chaz French.
I had an awesome breakfast today! What you're looking at is carne marinated pork sauteed with kale, leek, and mushroom, alongside some scrambled eggs with a bit of Tapatio hotsauce, over La Mexicana soft corn tortillas. I've been told repeatedly … [Continue reading]
That's right, I said Shenanigans!!! This article in the Seattle Pi Finally! Seattle called a ‘fashionable city’ called mt attention to a fraud, the poll by "Bundle" The most and least fashionable cities in America. In their cities listing they have … [Continue reading]
Russian Kale Frittata (Quick note: I don't use non-stick cookware, so frittatas take a bit more oil, I've noted where you can leave out 2tbsp if using non-stick). Rinse your kale well, the cut off the tough end bits of the stem, then finely chop … [Continue reading]
Great, super fast meal using store-bough fresh tortellini, the last of my farmer's market finds from last week, along with a tasty easy sauce of butter and goat cheese. You're done in minutes. Boiling the water will take the longest. Bok Choy … [Continue reading]
I am in fact, slightly evil. To make it worse, I didn't just make an addictive brown butter shortbread, I added saffron as a mood enhancer. Brown Butter Shortbread With Saffron Yeild: 64 2" x o.5" baton cookies Time: 40 minutes, plus 8 hours … [Continue reading]
So, "Eating Well For One On A Budget" is way too long to put in most post titles, and EWFOOAB is an ugly shortening, so, we're just going to call the series "Eating Well" from here out so the dish name can be in the title too. First, yes this is a … [Continue reading]
Welcome to a new series here on how to cook for one person on a tight budget. Over the course of the week I'll be posting what I make with all of this. $9.55 all organic, from the Berkeley Farmer's Market. Top: Bok Choi Blossoms $1.50 (I'd never … [Continue reading]
Once upon a time a professor declared that I was a "Poetic Genius" .... Shortly after that I stopped writing. It's only been recently that I even tried to write poetry again, I'm feeling a bit rusty most certainly, but while my beloved Guru Ma Jaya … [Continue reading]
Oh, hi there! I hope you didn't think that Baked Sundays was all about cakes, cookies and sweet decadence. It's most certainly also about savory decadence! What you're looking at is a lasagna made with a buttermilk bechamel, layers of baby spinach, … [Continue reading]
I can hear her screaming, shrieking wildly with joy and abundance, it's the scream she would let out whenever one of her Queens arrived late, trying to slink in unnoticed, and then in her thick Brooklyn accent, she'd flatly state: "You're late." Oh … [Continue reading]
