Gyros at Home

Food, family, and more food: this has become a recurring theme in my life lately. Today we made gyros, or at least gyro meat.Flat bread, tzatziki, Greek salad, and cucumbers surrounded think slices of delicious lamb Doner kebab. It was quite good.

Pizza Remix

Do I even need to say anything? Sausage, pepperoni, garlic. Pizza.

Lola Gaspar

 So we've been busy, my cousins and I. Going the the gym, making pretzels, having a ball: these are the things  we've been enjoying. But would I be a good host if I let my cousins go home without a night in DTSA (Down Town Santa Ana)? Certainly not. Tonight we had dinner at Lola Gaspar, a local favorite. Above you see the bacon wrapped blue cheese dates, house made chicken terrine with crisp pig's ear and toasted bread with black truffle butter, and finally the Frenchie which is Lola's burger on a brioche with blue cheese, caramelized onions, and wine reduction. It was quite nice.

Pretzel 2.0

There has been much clamoring and demand for my pretzels, and as my cousins are in town it seemed appropriate to make some. Butter, flour, salt, and yeast, all this and a lot of love: these are the things that pretzels make. Topped with a gentle egg wash and finished with some whole grain mustard. The simple things in life can sometimes be the best.

Saturday Morning Food Trucks

For the next few weeks my cousins are in town from Australia. I asked them what they wanted to do when they got here; the answer was perfect. Eat. So we started off on a strong foot, food trucks in the morning. Barbeque A Go Go and Bakery Truck, slow smoked Southern BBQ followed by filled to order creme puffs. I'd say we're going good.

Stop SOPA

I totally made this. It is mine. Oh and there is this legislation that would totally ruin my blog and stuff. So go here if you like what I do, because I like it too.

Short Stop BBQ

"So Timothy, what is your favorite food?"

"Sandwiches." 

"Well... what is your favorite sandwich then?"

Well aren't you clever. You think because I answered your broad question with a versatile answer that you can corner me into picking a favorite food within the category of sandwiches. Too bad for you my favorite sandwich is hamburgers. And while your pedestrian concept of a hamburger is limited to the overrated fast-food grease-ball (e.g. In-N-Out, Five Guys, Carls Jr., Etc), what you fail to realize is that the hamburger is an utterly vast and plentiful cornucopia of meat between bread. What kind of meat do you want, beef? lamb? bison? Do you want cheese? Do you want something absurd like bone-marrow butter? All this exists within the framework of hamburger.

What you see above is a Bar-Be-Que hamburger from Short Stop BBQ. That's right. Bar-Be-Que. Slow smoked Angus beef, topped with devilishly think BBQ pork belly and smothered in an equally delightful sticky smokey sauce of the Gods, all between a magnificent brioche bun. Oh yeah, there's a coleslaw too.