All Things Chill

1 Haas avocado, 2 eggs over-medium, 3 strips of turkey bacon and some brown Jasmine rice… served @ 9PM. It’s not pretty, but it’s tasty! No prep, no multi-hour simmers or difficult preparations here! It’s just cookin’ and stackin’ baby! Liana’s tumtum was hurtin’ a lil’ bit, so I wanted to [...]

So, with all this drama in the L.B.C. it being the holidays & all, bummin’ around the house just doesn’t cut it as far as I’m concerned. Thankfully, Liana thought so too when she recommended we actually watch a movie “in theatres” (lol I put it in quotes) out in the U District. [...]

So, I finally got my broken xbox 360 after TWO MONTHS with the system under repair somewhere in Texas. Liana was gracious enough to get dragged out of bed and come with me to the local FedEx eeaaarrrrlllyyyy this morning. As a bonus, we ate dim sum at Jade Garden, which was rather [...]

Thomas Keller’s Rotisserie Chicken. Buy organic, dry the bird, add a good amount of Kosher salt n’ pepper in the cavity and sprinkle a fine layer of salt on the top. Roast in the oven @ 450 degrees for 55 minutes. Then, let rest for 15 minutes.
Perfect bird, every time. [...]

Youtube link here. Jorge the Koala and Odogg in his birdman mask… from all the way back from Halloween and Don’s birthday! It was a dogglounge-a-licious night. Hee hee. Also a look @ all the “international” cuties that we were with that night (don’t worry guys, the girlfriend was included too)!
Whew! [...]

Since Liana’s been gone, I loaded up the fridge with a ton of beef to prepare. Tenderloin for quesadillas, hamburgers, all-beef franks and of course my favorite… RIBEYE. I’m all beef’d out! Oh man, I could only top it with a cheesy beef from Portillos. And their crinkle-cut fries. [...]

I spun a mixset on Christmas… only so I could claim the mixset title Eggnog Uprising. LOL. This first iteration of this (hopefully) annual series of mixsets was straight bumpin’ fron the start and eases into some lush, sexy-time beats at the finish. It has a couple of tracks you’ve heard (Say [...]

Sorry about recycling the image from an old post… but it’s so damn relevant! Ladies and gentlemen, I bring you the latest trailer of LOST: Season #4. Here’s a reeeaaalllyyy high quality version that’s circling the Internets. You can find the link (via Movie Web) here. I know Samuel [...]

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Off the Juno movie sountrack (and incidentally a movie that Liana really wants to see), The Moldy Peaches - Anyone Else But You, is one of the cutest songs I’ve heard in the last couple of years. It’s earnest, and willing to make fun of itself for the sake of the message: [...]

Pork cassoulet with Toasted Cibatta Bread
I had a day off on Tuesday and since it was rainy and dreary (the closest thing to REALLY HEAVY snow in Seattle heheh), I decided to block out six hours start to finish and make an classic, age-old French dish. Dunno what cassoulet is? Here’s the wiki!
Cassoulet [...]

Hi! Liana and I went to Senor Moose in the Ballard District to secure a weekly brunch hideaway to catch up on each other’s missed events in the past week and to act all cutesy in public lol. We heard good things about the place and its Yelp page was rockin’ 4 stars, [...]

Liana and I met up with Don and his friends: Shane and Olga for a bite to eat at Casuelitas Caribbean Cafe. YAY. At Don’s recommendation, I had the goat curry (wow delicious) and two rounds of the ginger mojitos, while Liana had the coconut bisque soup (too salty) and chicken adobo (meh). [...]