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Larry

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About Me


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My Interests

Offal. Sharp knives. Braised things. Cold pizza. People with accents. Cigarettes and alcohol. Music. Getting my ass kicked on saute. People who carry notebooks because they never know when they might need to write something down.
I read these websites/blogs:
ideasinfood.typepad.com
studiokitchen.typepad.com
www.egullet.org
seanbrock.wordpress.com
blog.ruhlman.com
Other than cooking/thinking about cooking/reading about cooking, I really enjoy a good night's sleep, watching really bad television, and tea.

I'd like to meet:

Flava Flav. Other cooks/chefs, awesome people and people I can learn stuff from.

Music:

Bad Religion, NOFX, Dead Boys, Alice In Chains, Tool, Frank Zappa, Dead Kennedys, Ramones, Descendents, Black Flag, Flaming Lips, Offspring, Rancid, Replacements, The Beatles, Beck, Hogscraper, Beastie Boys, Ben Folds, Bim Skala Bim, Black Sabbath, Bouncing Souls, Braniac, Butthole Surfers, Buck-O-Nine, Choking Victim, Crucifucks, David Bowie, Dead Milkmen, Depeche Mode, Dinosaur Jr, Dire Straits, DJ Shadow, Einsturzende Neubauten, Frank Black, G Love & Special Sauce, GWAR, Iggy & The Stooges, Jane's Addiction, Jeff Buckley, Lars & The Bastards, Less Than Jake, The Living End, Me First & The Gimme Gimmes, Mephiskapheles, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Modest Mouse, Nick Cave, NWA, Panic! At the Disco, Pixies, The Postal Service, Prince, REM, Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers (pre-Californication), The Refreshments, Reverend Horton Heat, Rilo Kiley, Run DMC, RX Bandits, Skankin Pickle, The Streets, Stretch Arm Strong, Talking Heads, Tom Waits, Tool, Twisted Sister, The Vandals, Violent Femmes, Ween

Movies:

Goodfellas, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Pulp Fiction, A Clockwork Orange, Kevin Smith films, Boxing Helena, Naked, Trainspotting. Ratatouille. Juno. Sweeny Todd.

Television:

Family Guy, old Simpsons, The State, SCTV, Beavis & Butthead, Hell's Kitchen (Gordon Ramsay is awesome), Saturday Night Live before it started to suck, Sifl & Olly, Clerks Animated. Top Chef. Project Runway (fuck you, it's good entertainment.)

Books:

Kitchen Confidential, French Laundry Cookbook, A Cook's Tour, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Trainspotting, A Clockwork Orange, 1984, stuff along those lines. Just finished The Nasty Bits, and it's fantastic too. Junky by William S. Burroughs. The "... Of a Chef" series by Michael Ruhlman. Fucking guy actually gets it. Actually, everything ever written about food by Michael Ruhlman.

Heroes:

Keith Vonhoff (thanks, Chef.)

My Blog

Aprils menu

So here's the menu for April's dinner party.  No fancy stuff.  I've rediscovered my love for old-school French food, and that's what's happening.Date is still up in the air, but it will be o...
Posted by Larry on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:52:00 PST

Benton’s bacon

Just got 3 pounds.  Now what?  I foresee lots of awesome things coming out of my kitchen.And if not... this bacon is still fantastic.
Posted by Larry on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:13:00 PST

Oh, goddamnit.

Once again, I'm getting tired of the limitations of myspace.  And since I only really use it for posting blogs & pictures about whatever it is I'm cooking, I figured why not just start postin...
Posted by Larry on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:10:00 PST

Late-night booze

Un-named-as-of-yet orange-flavored vodka-based beverage:Orange-Ginger-Vanilla simple syrup:150g sugar150g water1 vanilla bean, split, seeds scraped120g ginger, peeled and sliced1 navel orange, zested ...
Posted by Larry on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:17:00 PST

Dinner: A pictorial

Mise en place:Celery Root/Yukon Gold puree:Roasted Veal Rib Chop ::: Truffled Celeriac/Yukon Gold Puree, Hedgehog Mushrooms:Full....
Posted by Larry on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:04:00 PST

New toys (2)

I'd like to thank the great folks over at Le Sanctuaire for making this possible.  Now, time to work/play....
Posted by Larry on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:43:00 PST

New tattoo.

Here's the design, anyways.  I need to get it cleaned up, and I'm thinking about maybe getting some lettering done as well.  Should be fairly awesome....
Posted by Larry on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:00:00 PST

My approach.

(1) Clarify.Focus on flavors and techniques.  What do you want out of your ingredients?(2) Reduce.Get rid of the clutter, and decide what must be done in order to achieve what was decided on in (...
Posted by Larry on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:27:00 PST

Question:

I know there's some smart folks that are potentially reading this, so...Riddle me this:How does one go about rimming a martini glass in pop rocks without putting the "pop" in motion?Does oil make pop ...
Posted by Larry on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 11:44:00 PST

Holy living fuck. *Updated*

1.  This is the first blog not entirely about food/cooking/my kitchen.2.  This is one of many blog posts where I bitch about stuff.My god damned immersion blender broke entirely tonight/this...
Posted by Larry on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:47:00 PST