It was such an honor to write this piece for Cowboys & Indians magazine, a publication focusing on the mythos of the American West. It is a special thing to have your work appear in a proper magazine, and I am very grateful for the …
The leaves are turning, the air is crisp, and the first snow of the year is on the way, which means one thing: it is officially soup season. When the weather turns cold, there is nothing better than a warm pot of soup simmering on …
This morning we reached the end of the 30-day Kickstarter campaign for my second cookbook, The Buslife Kitchen: Recipes from the Road. We set out a month ago to raise $15,000 to print the first 2500 copied of the book I’ve been working on for the past 2.5 years. With 40 hours to go on the campaign, we crossed that threshold! The final tally is $16,016 from 191 individual backers. Thanks to all of you, this book will be printed! I truly cannot thank you enough for helping me realize this dream and turn this project into a reality. But I am going to try to express my experience and my gratitude. Continue reading Kickstarter Conclusion
One afternoon at our first Skooliepalooza, while I was slinging samples and selling cookbooks, I heard a woman exclaim as she flipped through my book. She told me excitedly that she was Vietnamese, and she was very happy to see the chapter on Vietnamese recipes. …
French onion soup is a wonderful thing. But, if we’re being honest with ourselves, I think we’d all agree that the best part is that piece of bread on top, soaked with onion soup from beneath and covered with a layer of browned, bubbling cheese. …
The next section on display from The Buslife Kitchen Vol. 2: Recipes from the Road is Italian recipes. The first cookbook also had an Italian section, but Italian cuisine just boasts too many wonderful recipes which are perfectly suited to nomad cooking. Simple ingredients, simple preparations, and amazing food are hallmarks of Italian cuisine, which also happens to be exactly what most nomads are looking for.
This is one of my very oldest recipes, concocted long before I had the first thought of writing a cookbook. This recipe became a mainstay for me back in my college days, when I was super, super broke. There have been a few tweaks to …
It’s day 12 of the Kickstarter, and we are chugging along. As I write this we are at about 42% funding, and we’re exactly 40% of the way through the campaign. There is a long way to go yet, and I hope you’ll find the …
In my first cookbook, one of the sections was family recipes, made up of some of my favorite foods from my childhood. In the time between the first cookbook and the second, something happened which really changed my family: Ayana and I got married. My family grew to encompass a whole new clan of wonderful folks. Continue reading Golden Beet Risotto
I am a real sucker for tiki drinks, and the Blue Hawaii is one of my favorites. It’s relatively simple as far as tiki drinks go, really only requiring one things that you aren’t likely to already have in your regular rotation, blue curacao. This …