Lunch! First timer to Plan Check on Fairfax and I have to say, I’m impressed. The Smoked Fried Chicken is what lured me in and I can say wholeheartedly that it is glorious. They have another location closer to home on Wilshire near downtown. I’ll so be there. As in this Sunday after we take …
I was saddened to learn today from LA Observed that master burrito maker Manuel Rojas, owner of the famed El Tepeyac restaurant in Boyle Heights, has died. Susan and I were introduced to the legendary eatery by our friends Arnold and Martha Ontes, who took us there back in 2005, under the stipulation that I …
Four short weeks ago, the pumpkin patch was just a row of sprouts: Here’s where we’re at as of today. My how we’ve grown:
Number of seeds: Five Planted: July 4 Sprouted: July 8-11 Patched (as seen below): July 12 The good news is that — as planned — I got an earlier start with my pumpkin patch than last year. The bad news is that — not as planned — juuust like last year instead of planting pumpkin …
After cranking out a lemon/lime/orange/strawberry concoction for Susan, I then went to work liquifying a banana/pear/strawberry smoothie for myself, as seen in the after and before shots below: Don’t worry, this is the last time I’ll blog about how much I’m loving the manual machine and its results:
Behold! Below is the result from putting two bananas and a pear through the Japanese-made manual juicer I found kicked to the curb Wednesday morning (and had so much trouble not only identifying but then juicing a solitary pear the first time around). I decided to give it another try this morning and I’m pleased to …
I’d been eyeballing the increasingly sorrier looking butternut squash patch, which at its flourishing leafy height mid-October looked like this: But for the last couple weeks in large part because the nil amount of light now coming from a sun sliding so low across the southern skies the patch has been working its way down …