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Shai is stylin for the whole crew these days.

"The 1996 Italian food film Big Night, peaked a decade too early. Audiences today crave food truck wars, watching a man suffer through eating the world’s hottest-ghost-pepper-5lb-cheeseburger… in 20 minutes with no water, the next Top Chef, etc. My son can watch a Pixar movie about a rat cooking haute cuisine. So imagine the Stanley Tucci and Tony Shaloub film if it were released 14 years later in today’s food crazed world? Remember that final scene in Big Night? It is almost 5 minutes long, uncut, nearly wordless. Probably one of the best endings to a movie in hollywood. The two brothers have accepted the defeat of their faltering Italian restaurant in 1950′s New York and the next morning Stanley Tucci’s character cooks a breakfast frittata for his brother, whom he had just had a falling out with the previous night. Imagine instead of a frittata, it was a carbonara cooked in that scene – it would have been perfect.

 

There are hundreds of different variations to cooking carbonara..." read more here at: Vesper Bistro

"The 1996 Italian food film Big Night, peaked a decade too early. Audiences today crave food truck wars, watching a man suffer through eating the world’s hottest-ghost-pepper-5lb-cheeseburger… in 20 minutes with no water, the next Top Chef, etc. My son can watch a Pixar movie about a rat cooking haute cuisine. So imagine the Stanley Tucci and Tony Shaloub film if it were released 14 years later in today’s food crazed world? Remember that final scene in Big Night? It is almost 5 minutes long, uncut, nearly wordless. Probably one of the best endings to a movie in hollywood. The two brothers have accepted the defeat of their faltering Italian restaurant in 1950′s New York and the next morning Stanley Tucci’s character cooks a breakfast frittata for his brother, whom he had just had a falling out with the previous night. Imagine instead of a frittata, it was a carbonara cooked in that scene – it would have been perfect.

 

There are hundreds of different variations to cooking carbonara..." read more here at: Vesper Bistro

"The 1996 Italian food film Big Night, peaked a decade too early. Audiences today crave food truck wars, watching a man suffer through eating the world’s hottest-ghost-pepper-5lb-cheeseburger… in 20 minutes with no water, the next Top Chef, etc. My son can watch a Pixar movie about a rat cooking haute cuisine. So imagine the Stanley Tucci and Tony Shaloub film if it were released 14 years later in today’s food crazed world? Remember that final scene in Big Night? It is almost 5 minutes long, uncut, nearly wordless. Probably one of the best endings to a movie in hollywood. The two brothers have accepted the defeat of their faltering Italian restaurant in 1950′s New York and the next morning Stanley Tucci’s character cooks a breakfast frittata for his brother, whom he had just had a falling out with the previous night. Imagine instead of a frittata, it was a carbonara cooked in that scene – it would have been perfect.

 

There are hundreds of different variations to cooking carbonara..." read more here at: Vesper Bistro

New landscaping along Tyler Street, south of the 91 freeway.

For the last 2 Secret Pickle Supper Club events, Matt has setup his kitchen in the front of FTJco and it works great!

We can all see what's happening and learn about how our meal is being prepared, while sipping our wine.

nightmarket in the muslim quarter in xian, this is a sort of bread soup with broth and lamb meat quite tasty

Restaurant Week Appreciation Gala

Grand Rapids, Michigan

New landscaping along Tyler Street, south of the 91 freeway.

There are never too many strawberries for breakfast.

The chef made a very stiff dough for the Zhong shuijiao dumplings

Preparing corn cakes, frika jagung

Thanksgiving Prep

Prepwork on his TV-B-Gone before the interview.

Firefighters clearing area around sweat lodge. Williams district. 7-20-11. Credit the U.S. Forest Service, Southwestern Region, Kaibab National Forest.

Edwin (casaforesta) in the kitchen prepping his huge dinner for 20 Underground Rijsttafel

Sorting the mailboxes in my neverending prep for this project. Each kid now has mailboxes and 'envelopes' that cater to their skill set, ranging from colors to one to one correspondence. It's ready to go next Friday. Hooray!

 

Happy weekend everyone!

Olivia is working on a quilt for the county fair.

This is before we installed over popcorn.No prepwork . See how to install these tiles:

www.decorativeceilingtiles.net/ceiling_tiles_installation...

this morning i woke up and my hair was black like normal. i went to visit shai at prepwork and she made magic happen. she rocked out a bunch of different colors of highlights. i just wanted to post these photos to show you her mad skill..... and to say thank you shai! this might be the first time in history that i havent cried when i got home from the hair dressers!

:)

 

Restaurant Week Appreciation Gala

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Going to be doing a lot of baking in the coming days... including these GF confections (will share soon!)

We're getting some food together to take with us on the bus up to New York tomorrow. We like taking a few things with us so we don't have to spend money since this is only a day trip. We would stay over at a friend's place, but I have to work Sat. and Sun. so we have to return tomorrow night.

The reason we're going is because I have work in the Red Dot Art Fair this weekend. If you happen to be in Manhattan this weekend, stop by the fair and look for the Bridgette Mayer Gallery room to see a few new and recent works by yours truly.

 

Red Dot is just one of many art fairs all happening this weekend in New York. It's also one of I think three that take place in hotels.

 

RED DOT NEW YORK

RED DOT is open to the public March 27 - 30, 2008 at the Park South Hotel, 122 E. 28th Street between Park and Lexington.

 

FAIR HOURS:

Thursday, March 27, 11am - 7pm

Friday, March 28, 11am - 8pm

Saturday, March 29, 11am - 8pm

Sunday, March 30, 11am - 7pm

 

GENERAL ADMISSION:

Tickets may be purchased at the door, general admission is $12.

 

LOCATION

The Park South Hotel

122 E. 28th Street between Park and Lexington.

 

TRANSPORTATION

Subway: 6 Train to 28th Street Station at Park Avenue.

Driving: parking garage located directly across the street from the hotel entrance.

Had to get prepped for Canada with a quick trim

U.S. Army Spc. Robert Flak, assigned to 2-504 Parachute Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, grabs water for the coolers as he prepares for a convoy, on Camp Ramadi, in western Iraq, Oct. 31, 2009.

Eggplant with taotjo (fermented soy bean sauce)

The signs above and next to the roadway will be replaced with new and larger signs.

My sons dug trenches in the garden, dug in compost, and cleaned up the yard. They are such a big help! This pic featured on my blog Family Earthprint:

familyearthprint.com

 

Here are some carrots from last year! we missed, they survived winter:)

the toys will really pop out against the dark gray.

 

we were freaking exhausted by the end of the weekend. It took a whole box of TSP to get the floors clean. poor paul busted his knee and I almost bit his head off saturday night after doing all that trim...

 

I predicted by the end of the weekend that he would never want to see me again (I'm a painting nazi... anti-painters tape and pro-heavy prepwork) but sunday went so smoothly that we survived, relationship intact :)

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