Alright, so a couple weeks ago I was back in the Bay Area for yet another food inspired visit. And as usual, I ate myself silly. But as it turns out, I didn’t just get food for my belly. I also got some food for my brain. More specifically, me, Matt and Minh got schooled on how to break down a whole pig from the chefs at Kokkari, an awesome Greek restaurant in SF. It was a real treat to watch professionals in action and see where the different cuts we all see in grocery stores come from on the actual animal. And it was a lesson we would put to good use a few days later. But that’s for another post. For now, click on the picture below for the full story and video.
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Matt’s Wood Oven Pizza!
Okay maybe I should rename this site “Cooking with Matt”. What can I say? He’s a great cook, he makes preparing food easy and accessible and he always lets me shoot him cooking. See that’s all you need to do to be a star on this amazing blog. Alright so we already know Matt’s the Dumpling King. And in the last post I dubbed him The Earl of Sourdough. Now I must give him another alias: Pizza Maestro. Read on for the full story.
Sourdough Baby!
Alright you all. This post is decidedly anti “zone diet“. Don’t get me wrong, I adore protein and delicious meat, but this post and page is all about the carbs. Last month, I went back to the Bay for the holidays and came back to NYC bearing a very special gift. The gift of sourdough starter bequeathed to me so generously from Matt aka Dumpling King (though now I would also dub him The Earl of Sourdough). And since then, it’s fair to say I’ve been a little bit obsessed – obsessed with maintaining and tending the starter and baking the perfect sourdough loaf. I’m happy to say the maintenance of the starter is going pretty well, because I’m a nurturing kind of guy. The bread? Well I’m still working on that. Click on the image below for the full story behind the starter and my obsession with sourdough.