October 2007


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Save the Avocados

avocado love

We’ve all heard a bunch about climate change and global warming and “going green.” And, sure, that’s all a good idea and humans should put forth much more of an effort to conserve, blah blah blah… And yes, I totally believe in this. I take public transportation to work, I frequent the local farmer’s market, and I recycle all of 80’s beer bottles. But I haven’t really taken on the cause until I found out about the potential harm to **avocados**

Yes, it seems like the rise in California’s temperature will aversely affect many crops, including the ES fav, avocado. So please, for the love of the green, silky and delicious fruit, do what you can to save the planet.

Avocados are counting on us!

Photo: Saveur

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The Gig is NOT Up

1st catering gig

I’m officially a world famous caterer now!

80 Proof’s mom hired me for my 2nd catering gig, to be held at the end of this month.

Requirements: Three different appetizers that can be hand held (so anything requiring a fork is excluded, as well as dips and spreads)

The crowd = posh librarians

Let me know if you have any suggestions.

Photo: Britannia

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Endless Simmer to Open Brooklyn Office Oct. 28

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Most of you are aware that as part of the plan to launch this blog media empire total worldwide domination, I moved back in with my parents for a substantial period of adultlescence.

Now, due to this wild success of Endless Simmer (and maybe just a little help from some sellout corporate copywriting jobs), I am officially becoming a grown-up again. Well, a grown-up with roommates anyway. That’s right, I’m leaving behind the mean streets of Hell’s Kitchen for the slightly meaner streets of Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

I’m relatively new to this whole venturing beyond Manhattan thing, so those of you in the know, send me some restaurant tips! Oh, and I need an entire kitchen. Is this an appropriate occasion to register at Williams-Sonoma?

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My Thai!

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Well, many will say that there are certain types of foods that you can’t ever hope to make at home with any success, one of them being Thai food. But nay, friends! I say it ain’t so. 

So, you think you can’t cook Thai? I disagree. Here are a couple of important Thai sauces that will make you excited about venturing into these un-traveled recipes. I started cooking the peanut sauce first just by looking at the ingredients on the back of a store-bought jar of Thai peanut sauce. Granted there are all kinds of ingredients that are foreign there—guargum, asparta what? But, take the ingredients that mean something to you and it will be alright.

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Lox Me Up and Wrap Me in Avocado

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I’m really not that big of a sandwich eater. Well, making sandwiches that is. I can’t deny my love for someone else selling me a good lunch-time egg salad on rye. Bread just seems to go bad too quickly in my apartment. So, I usually toss in anything I’d use for a sandwich into a salad instead.

But, when I’m at a Wegmans with my dad, my eyes light up at the fresh bread and endless opportunities for different creations that my tiny Hispanic super market just can’t compare to. Although I will say that it took me almost 5 aisles to find some canned black beans, which I clearly find unacceptable (hence telling my father that Cherry Hill needs more of an influx of Central American immigrants.)

Regardless, with an abundant amount of time (and my dad’s credit card for purchase power) I compiled a killer sandwich for my dad and brother, SAG, and me.

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Peru-ing the Day I Promised This

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Editors Note: JoeHoya should need no introduction to the ES community. This DC Foodies blogger/prolific commenter/all-around genius recently traveled to Peru, and is nice enough to share a novel blog post about his culinary experiences.

For the record, Machu Picchu was lost for almost 400 years. So when you think about it, the fact that it’s taken me more than a month to write about our trip to Peru is really pretty insignificant by comparison.

In mid-August (two days after the earthquake, to be exact), my wife and I flew to Peru to volunteer in Cusco for a week. The program was organized by GlobeAware, a terrific American non-profit that arranges volunteer opportunities in countries around the world. And despite the fact that our destination had just suffered a MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE, the hardest part of our trip was actually getting out of DC’s National Airport. Suffice it to say, we sat on the tarmac for the better part of a Thursday night before we were informed that our flight was canceled.

But we got out on Friday and arrived in Cusco with an hour to spare before our program started on Saturday morning. And since this isn’t a travelblog, that’s all I’m going to say about the trip that isn’t directly related to things we ate and drank.

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