chicken tortilla soup

I got a letter this mornin’, how do you reckon it read?

It said, “Hurry, hurry, yeah, your love is dead”

I got a letter this mornin’, I say how do you reckon it read?

You know, it said, “Hurry, hurry, how come the gal you love is dead?”
“Death Letter” by Son House

Another good warmer upper for this [...]

breakfast sandwich

Well it’s 1969 okay all across the USA

It’s another year for me and you

Another year with nothing to do
“1969″ by The Stooges

And for my biscuit and sausage week finale…I had to do this…my ode to McDonald’s breakfast: homemade biscuits, homemade breakfast sausage, and a fried egg.

bourbon pecan pie

And maybe Marlon Brando will be there by the fire

We’ll sit and talk of Hollywood and the good things there for hire

And the Astrodome and the first tepee

Marlon Brando, Pocahontas and me

Marlon Brando, Pocahontas and me
“Pocahontas” by Neil Young

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I hope everyone has a day full of gorging, naps, booze, and football. Be [...]

gravlax

Well, that’ll be the day, when you say goodbye

Yes, that’ll be the day, when you make me cry

You say you’re gonna leave, you know it’s a lie

Cause that’ll be the day when I die
“That’ll Be The Day” by Buddy Holly

Gravlax is a cured salmon dish that is most commonly found in the Scandinavian countries of [...]

potato chips

She put nine hundred dollars on the fifth horse in the sixth race
I think its name is Chips Ahoy!
It came in six lengths ahead, we spent the whole next week getting high
At first i thought that she hit off some tip that she got from some other boy
We were overjoyed
“Chips Ahoy!” by The Hold Steady

The [...]

thanks michael

When you come near to me

I go away

What is not clear for me

I go away

What is not here for me

I go away, I go away, I go away
“When” by Vincent Gallo

These beautiful macarons were delivered courtesy of my good friend Michael Wolf.  Mike had recently ventured to Europe and went through the pain-in-the-ass process of [...]

at the farmers market: peppers

Dear land from the giant speakers of all man

Time from the swollen mountain tops
The stolen sun thoughts the solar wind chimes

To ring the morning the morning up

O ring the morning the morning up

O I heard your voice in Dresden

And now it follows me everywhere
“I Heard Your Voice in Dresden” by Elvis Perkins

Some of my favorite [...]

house vinaigrette

My mom would give me twenty and say “stay out till dawn”

When her boyfriend was over and they wanted me gone

I would walk through the woods to the old graveyard

And roll my own Tops and think two kinds of thoughts

Are we high enough to clear these trees

I don’t know
“Pittsburgh” by Mason Jennings

This is my final [...]

chopped salad

The only girl I’ve ever loved was born with roses in her eyes

But then they buried her alive one evening 1945

With just her sister at her side and only weeks before the guns

All came and rained on everyone now she’s a little boy in Spain

Playing pianos filled with flames on empty rings around the sun

All [...]

pickled jalapenos

The dancin’ in the valley, the moons the mirror ball

Blew open my mind now it’s an empty room

Swingin’ in the hammock, dogs are walkin’ cross the roof

I watch you braid your hair, you’re from another time

When the earth wasn’t so angry, and god was on our side
“Temazcal” by Monsters of Folk

They go well with nachos, [...]