Maddy and I planted a Peach Tree
The variety is “Hale Haven,” and according our still-benevolent robot overlords: Developed at Michigan State University's South Haven Experimental…
2025
2024
Hawaiian Sweet Rolls
How could these not be amazing when there’s pineapple juice in the dough?
2021
Busted Lap
December 5th, 2021 / The world is wrong today / An Uber driver speaks of his wealth / When he's just one small step / From the corner bums and their…
Kalamata's Best for Bread
After trying every olive I could find, I’ve figured out what everyone in bread making already knows: the Kalamata is top dog. Funny I don’t really…
How to Fall in Love with a Friend
Can I touch your hair? / She asks me / A strange question indeed / We’re standing next to one another / At Ocean Beach / Atop the O'Shaughnessy…
Forgetting Something?
Shit! / What, you ok? / Now I’m feeling bad for startling the Lyft driver / I mean we’re halfway to SFO already / Heading down 101 through the…
El Paseo, 2019-2020
Mill Valley looks like the kind of town / You’d expect to see in a model railroad set / Minus the trains— / Tracks torn up / After a massive fire /…
Brooklyn, c. 1985
They don’t tell you in San Francisco / That East Coast nights don’t cool down in the summer / Not in Augusta / But not in Brooklyn either / I…
Tonight’s craft cocktail
A Rosemary Fashioned: Bulleit Bourbon, house-extracted rosemary syrup, Pechaud's Bitters, rocks, sprig of rosemary garnish
Saturday Dinner
Clockwise from left: au gratin with russets, leeks, jalapeños, cumin, and crumbled paneer; green beans with olive oil, kosher salt, and sautéed…
A Marine's Choice
Anyone who traveled with Mitch Ludwig / Knew about the shrapnel in his ass / It was from Vietnam / A Marine / Two tours / And a Purple Heart / A man…
Cucina Mia has a YouTube Channel
To make it easier to find all my cooking tutorials, I've dropped them into a YouTube channel. / Impossibolognese is my next meatless challenge,…
Giant artichokes, pressure cooked, halved, grilled, then stuffed with cream...
cheese, prosciutto, onions, sweet red peppers and panko, then finished in the broiler #cucinamia #misenmade
The Weight
When you feel the weight of the world / Upon your shoulders / It is an illusion / For you are the world / And the world is you / And it is heavy /…
A Stranger in San Pancho
It’s 3:30am in San Pancho / Our legs are numb from dancing / And the mezcal has got us wondering / If we’re still drunk or starting to get hungover /…
Washing Pennies
Violent thunderstorms would often strike Freeport, GBI. I was four years old, but I can feel them like it was yesterday. Several times a day, mothers…
Curious George
Shortly after George Gascón turned my bicycle accident into the Crime of the Century™, he was run out of San Francisco by BLM activists and Colin…
Once there were parking lots /
Now it's a peaceful oasis
Lizzy's recording again
So happy to help support my favorite modern big band out of Los Angeles: Lizzy & The Triggermen.
As promised, Rigatoni & Impossible Balls!
#impossiblenonna #cucinamia #impossiblefoods #impossibleburger #misenmade #tabasco #instantpot #cuisinart
The Impossible Nonna
I've been troubled by the horrors of industrial beef production for at least a decade, but I've never done anything about it—until NOW. / "The…
Boy, this is complicated
San Francisco once had a corrupt, law-enforcement-simping, pro-crime-porn DA (George Gascón) who BLM ran out of town over the Mario Woods…
For this rum sour, I took the leftover aromatics from yesterday’s stewed...
California prunes (cara cara orange peel, cinnamon stick, star anise, cardamom, and cloves) and soaked them in rum overnight. After straining through…
If the State of California is trying to send me a secret message, let's just...
say I have successfully decoded it.
Recent cooking projects
Artichoke mandala / Pad ma kuer / Risotto stuffed peppers / Roasted veg and creamy polenta / Penne primavera w/ griddled zucchini / Fun with French…
St. Germain Shepherd: #ketelonevodka #stgermain with fresh squeezed...
grapefruit, champagne float, lemon twist #cucinamia #misenmade
We hate you now
These words have been percolating in my head for months now but I didn't have the courage to write and share them. / She did.
A riff on the old fashioned: #pechaudsbitters, house-made cara cara syrup,...
#makersmark, #badabingcherry, ice #cucinamia #misenmade
Why direct action?
You may well ask: "Why direct action? Why sit ins, marches and so forth? Isn't negotiation a better path?" You are quite right in calling for…
