Restaurant: Tofu Ya Location: 2021 Sawtelle Blvd. Los Angeles, Ca 90025. 310-473-2627. Date: Jan 06, 2011 Cuisine: Korean BBQ & Tofu Soup Some friends of mine wanted Korean for lunch so I found this Westside place on Zagat (it…
Since I have so many Ultimate Pizza posts I wanted to gather their links together into a single page. But I solemnly promise this is the last pizza post for a good while — at least until I prepare another batch of them! In summary, every…
The seventh Ultimate Pizza post. Earlier in the series were Dough, Pesto,Sauce, Toppings, New Years Pizza, and Day 2. Woah! We had family over on Sunday to polish off the seven remaining pizza balls and work our way through some more of the toppings….
As if you can’t tell, I like cheese. A lot. Many many different kinds of cheese. About 15 years ago I was at Valentino Restaurant in Santa Monica and I discovered Burrata. This is a fresh Italian cheese, originally from Apulia (the boot…
Here we are at the sixth Ultimate Pizza post. My neck is all knotted up from this much obsession. Earlier in the series were Dough, Pesto, Sauce, Toppings, and New Years Pizza. Since we had a lot of dough balls,…
Finally, five posts later, we come to the main event, the Ultimate Pizza. This post is pretty epic, but just to recap. We set the stage with articles on the Dough, the Pesto, the Sauce, and the Topping Preparation. Now…
When making Ultimate Pizza fresh ingredients are one of the most crucial elements. I already went over the preparation of the Dough, the Pesto, and the Sauce. Now I’ll cover the bulk of the shopping and for toppings. I get…
This is part 3 of my comprehensive coverage of our New Years pizza making, following the article on Dough and the one on the Pesto. Upcoming will be toppings and the pizzas themselves. Here are the ingredients. Two types of marzano tomatos from Italy….
This is part 2 of my series on Ultimate Homemade Pizza. For Part 1 (on Dough) CLICK HERE. We prepare a lot of different toppings, including homemade pesto, which makes an excellent substitute or compliment to tomato sauce. Most toppings will have to…
For New Years those with toddlers tend to stay in, but we’re having friends over and making our Ultimate Homemade Pizzas. This is an involved process so I’m going to split both the prep itself and the event itself into…
Restaurant: Botin Location: Madrid Spain Date: July 1, 2010 Cuisine: Classic Spanish At the end of our month in Spain we wanted to hit up a totally traditional Spanish place for our final dinner. This place in Madrid claims…
Layered between our obsessive holiday restaurant forays we did sandwich in a little home cooked meal. As the main course was lasagne I reached into the cellar and pulled out some Italian. Parker gives this Barolo a 93, “The 1997 Carobric, also…
Restaurant: The Palace Location: 11701 Wilshire Blvd, Second Floor, Los Angeles, CA. 310-979-3377. Date: Dec 25, 2010 Cuisine: Chinese Dimsum As we don’t celebrate Christmas, and very few restaurants are open, Chinese is a long standing tradition. These days we go to Dim Sum. For…
Restaurant: Sasabune [1, 2] Location: 12400 Wilshire Blvd Ste 150 (South Carmelina Avenue) Los Angeles, CA 90025, (310) 820-3596 Date: December 21, 2010 Cuisine: Japanese Rating: Excellent as always. For the second time in a week we went back to Sasabune, one…
Restaurant: Osteria Latini [1, 2, 3] Location: 11712 San Vicente Blvd.Brentwood, CA 90049 310.826.9222 Date: Dec 03, 2010 Cuisine: Italian _ As I mentioned last time, Osteria Latini is a reliable and reasonable neighborhood Italian. It proved that yet again. From my cellar….
Restaurant: Houstons Location: 202 Wilshire Blvd. Santa Monica, CA 90401. (310) 576-7558 Date: December 17, 2010 Cuisine: American Rating: Solid High-end Chain American As any reader can probably tell, I’m not too big on chain restaurants. Frankly I consider the Olive Garden, Outback, Claim Jumper ilk to…
