Joy the Baker (Love her and her blog– shes awesome) shows you how to make a basic Caesar Salad from scratch. yum!
Archive for the 'cravings' Category
There are a few things I MUST do.
1. Near the intersection of Wilshire and Western, about half a block up from the Wiltern Theater on Western Avenue there is this small boba ‘hut’ called I Love Boba, a local chain. Hands down the best boba around. Their boba drinks in their smoothie line are the best. I like their strawberry peach and strawberry kiwi.
2. on West Olympic Ave and Vermont, also about half a block away from Vermont on Olympic Avenue is this really big (kinda old 80’s looking grocery store building with big red korean lettering) Korean grocery store. They have so much seafood and fresh meat and 3 aisles of kimchee, other cool asian products and produce. I always buy all the asian mushrooms you can’t find at your local market like eringi, oyster mushrooms, enoki, shimeji, etc. Everything is so cheap and fresh I can’t resist. They must have amazing turnover because whenever I go its very crowded. You can also buy 10lb (probably bigger) bags of peeled garlic and 10lb bags of bean sprouts. yum! The place may be daunting for first timers but I love the old asian feel to the place. Plus you can’t beat the prices. A pound of pumpkin seeds for under $3. I get excited just thinking about it.
Its about strawberries… and recklessness. You see, I love strawberries. My parents work next to a strawberry field and my dad has made friends with the manager of the field. He tells us when they’re done picking the strawberries and preparing to chop up the plants and turn up and fertilize/sterilize the dirt. He tells us in advance so we can pick as many strawberries as we want/can in the time between the conversation and the day the soil is turned upside down, about two or three days.
We pick alot of strawberries. I love strawberries. I love to pick them and eat them in the fields, warmed by the sun. Sun-kissed, sun-warmed fruit always makes me feel at home. None of that refrigerated chemically sprayed grocery fruit for me thank you. But going back to my confession. I cannot stop at one strawberry or even a basket of strawberries. I live to eat strawberries until I start feeling sick. I’ll have strawberries as an addition to breakfast. Only strawberries for lunch and more strawberries for snack. And even after I’m sick of them I’ll eat more. And even more the next day. I don’t know how to stop until the strawberries are gone or I’ve put them somewhere. God I want some more, but I’ve put them somewhere…
Many of my several pounds of strawberries have been washed, stemmed and frozen for future use in jams, smoothies, purees, other cooking adventures. All of the damaged strawberries went into jam… Jam is easy… some sugar, some pectin, some fruit, some heat and some time. I accidentally made about a gallon of jam. Maybe more. But I canned it so I’ll have it for a while.
The lesson here is this: while it may be ok to eat strawberries until you get sick repetitively, a gallon of jam is entirely too much jam.
CAULIFLOWER.
When I need it, I need it; and it will be the only thing on my mind. If I see a purple one or those green ones with the pointy pieces I HAVE TO HAVE IT.
The Pioneer Woman Cooks recently posted a cauliflower soup recipe and now I MUST HUNT DOWN some fresh cauliflower.
The Pioneer Woman, Ree, posts with lots and lots of pictures of each step of each recipe. She uses lots of ingredients that health conscious people would not use in such high volume, but the results sure do look delicious. Her Onion Strings look amazing. Lots of good recipes to be found 
