Asides

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 Impossible Nonna,” my newest alter ego, is going to recreate all of my Italian family recipes, using vegan Impossible™ Burger and other kinds of textured soy protein instead of lamb, pork, beef, or chicken.

No, I’m not committing to going vegan and/or ending all my consumption of meat. I just want to see if these great recipes can stand on their own without it. Impossible? We’ll see.

If you care to follow along, please do on Facebook or YouTube.

I’ll be starting the series with Impossible Rigatoni & Meatballs, tonight!

Tags impossible nonna, italian

Activism & Politics Bikelash

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 murder-by-police (same reason Colin Kaepernick took a knee). Chesa Boudin, a former public defender and *actual genuine criminal justice reformer* replaced Gascón, who pissed off nearly everyone in SF by not being reform-minded enough, and is now currently pissing off nearly everyone in LA by being TOO reform-minded. Now both are facing recall and Chesa is probably going to tell us why that’s a bad idea. I half agree with him! Boy, this is complicated.

Tags criminal justice, media, recalls

Cucina Mia Farm-to-Table

Walnut sour boule

Bob’s AP and WW flour, Tartine Country Bread process

Tags bread cult, misenmade, tartine process

Cucina Mia Farm-to-Table

Rum sour

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 cheesecloth, I had my own homemade spiced rum.