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Make your own gosh darn longanisa!

But that’s just the riff. Make your own jazz. Seems somehow incomplete right? That’s the beauty of it. It’s the perfect chance to make it yours. Here are a few notes to help you along the way. 1/2 kg is about 1 lb (which makes 8-10 links). Salt peter is what turns the longanisa that familiar reddish color (it also …

Mmmm Meatballs . . .

Some menus come to me easier than others. This one was a tough one, which is odd because Sundays are, by far, my favorite day to cook. I wish I was more organized and less brain dead because if I was maybe I’d have a big old google doc filled with fancy recipes that I could pick and choose from. …

Chef Spotlight: James Syhabout

Fans of that good hip hop (as opposed to whatever trash the kids are listening to in the internet these days) will have undoubtedly encountered a common theme running throughout much of the genre: keeping it real. When keeping it real goes right Slug (of Atmosphere fame) immortalized the “10,000 lakes” of his not-so-hip-hop hometown in this Minnesota anthem. In …

Reminisce for a spell

It’s ironic that being an active participant in life sometimes gets in the way of documenting said life. Which has been the case with our poor blog. Is that irony or just what happened? I asked Alanis but it’s definitely not like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife. Let’s just say in the future I promise to …