All Things Chill

@ Bo’s Barbecue in Layfayette. LauLau and I ordered the “2-way combo” (ZOMG I CAN’T CHOOSE CHICKEN WTF!!!?!?!) with ribs and beef brisket and a plate of sides – potato salad, greens, bread and corn on the cob. Honestly, the food was satisfactory. The ribs were nice and tender and the brisket [...]

Flickr album here. I made breakfast for the store’s senior managers, regional managers and other higher ups today @ 8AM before they conducted a ginormous meeting. Let’s just say that it was a really early day to feed a lot of people. Here’s what I made:
Ham, Cheddar and Leek Quiche
Vegetarian Southwestern Quiche [...]

Youtube link here. Rakewon, of Wu-Tang fame… TEARS SOME ‘ISH UP IN THE KITCHEN. LOL. It’s funny, cause I would actually LOVE to have him in the demonstration kitchen and kick around harmless banter about hip hop and crockpots. We could say “NNAAWWAATTAAAMEAN” for 2 hours straight! LOL. I [...]

Flickr album here. Youtube here. Liana accompanied (and drove)! Quick reviews follow:
Playground – Korean bar / karaoke joint. Out of peach soju. Janet’s family owns this place. Chicken took too long. There’s seafood in the tofu stew – good! They put cheese with corn (and it’s hella [...]

Jacqui and Clint (as well as Ars Tehnica’s Editor-in-Chief, Ken Fisher) have reviewed yet another Apple product: the iPhone. There, you’ll find Ars’ take on the iPhone’s keyboard, “iSafari,” Widgets, and incompatibilities with Bluetooth. In-depth journalism is commonplace here, but what’s different this time around are the video clips featuring Jacqui’s fingers (wow [...]

I’m 99% sure that I lost my bus pass today. DAMMIT! ARRRGGHHHHH I FEEL LIKE HULKING UP!!!! HULK SMASH HULK CRASH!!!!!!!
That is all.
~Spec

So it’s 4AM and I just noticed the Joystiq, my third-favorite “updated daily” gaming new website (Opposable Thumbs & Kotaku are my #1 & #2), just redesigned. Good for them! LOL. I figured that I’d be the first one to post about it… cause I figure that I’d be the only person [...]

Youtube link here. A fireworks video (filled with glowstick goodness in the form of Faithless – We Come One)… for prosperity. Apparently, they get all of their budget from fundraising. And from what I heard, they raised $14,000 at supposedly around $40 a firework… that’s about 350… which is completely wrong. [...]

Happy 07/07/07 day! YAY. Apparently, this is a big day for Bungie, creators of the shrieking foul-mouthed adolescents and console based teabagging Halo series (as well as a bunch of Mac games that people only play for prosperity’s sake). They’ve released a bunch of new content in the Xbox Live Marketplace (I [...]

Youtube link here (thanks Jason!). I’d definitely put this on my “long drives on quiet nights” playlist… if my car wasn’t still in Chicago. LOL. This track BUMPS… and with the concert coming up on the 27th… I’m definitely pumped! w00p w00p!
DAAFFTTTT PPPUUUNNKKKKK!
~Spec

Hey everybody! I’ll be hosting the 10 Days of Chocolate in the Bloomingdales San Francisco Demonstration Kitchen leading up to the International Chocolate Salon @ Fort Mason on July 14 & 15th where I’ll be a guest judge! YAY! I’ll drop more deets as the information comes… but for now… think about [...]

Larger view here. Wheat pappardelle pasta, previously-frozen cooked green peas, good-quality grated Parmesan cheese, lots of freshly cracked pepper and a touch of olive oil. That’s it.
Frozen peas keep their nutrients when flash-frozen, so I always keep a bag in my freezer @ all times. Wheat pasta (I used Trader [...]

Papalote in the Mission District! Four pictures of Liana and I from the soon-to-be growing Across the Table Flickr set inspired by Little Jenny C (I <3 her blog). We had a round of horchata (mmmm!), relaxed to the not so quite authentic Latin music and threw down on some tasty burritos and [...]