When two of your favorite things in the world consist of basketball and food is there a better way to spend your weekend than running between the kitchen and the living room cooking and watching playoff basketball?
Is the fact that it’s Monday a perfect excuse to start your weekend blog post with multiple run-on sentences ending with question marks?
Saturday: Homemade spring rolls, cioppino stew and Inca Kola.
Tortelloni w/ a pancetta red sauce a top a crusted garlic bread.
Fresh poke bowl.
And of course there was the Clippers “epic” comeback in Memphis to cap off Sunday night which sent my iPhone battery from about 20% to dead with-in the course of 5 minutes.
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Started with some cheap frozen mussels, scallop and pollock. Added white wine, olive oil and tomatoes. Worked in some dried spices and celery… 15 minutes later I had a hearty cioppino for a cold, wet afternoon meal.
Bacon Butternut Squash Soup: Butternut squash, low sodium chicken stock, bacon, onion, apple, rosemary, sage, cinamon, smoked sea salt into the Vitamix. Stir in some heavy cream at the end.
The key was transferring the butternut squash from the oven in to the greasy bacon cast-iron pan. Mr. Butternut soaked up alll of the yummy goodness.
End result: Sweet, salty savory soup.
This is what happens when you bring a Vitamix Series 500 over to my kitchen.
I start with some garbanzo beans and roasted red peppers and end up with a feast large enough to feed a small country (or a few extremely hungry people).
Did a 50+ mile ride from Mid City LA to Hermosa Beach and back and snapped some photos along the way. [Photos here]
Took some iPhone photos of the Osgemeos “Miss You” exhibit opening at Prism Gallery this past Saturday night. Pretty cool stuff.
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What time is it? It’s calzone time. Threw together a simple calzone. Tomatoes, basil, garlic, mozzarella, pancetta, bell peppers. It was bomb-dot-com and simple. 
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Fun, food, drinks, food, grit, food, beauty. Awesome trip. Instagram photos below:
Flying over the Grand Canyon:
Primanti Bros. capicola sandwich with “Italian slaw” and fries:
Downtown Burgh:
Formaggio:
Pittsburgh street art:
Bundled up for the 30 degree weather:
Nothing compares to SGV / OC pho, but this was really good:
Pittsburgh party rockers:
Altar Bar. Chrich turned bar / music venue. Gorgeous:
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