Raspberries Are For Tarts

September 8, 2011Desserts, Recipesdevteam

1 Blind Baked 10″ Pate Sucree Tart Shell

Raspberry Sauce:

4 oz sugar
4 oz orange juice
1 T orange zest
1 rose geranium leaf, wrapped in cheese cloth
pinch salt
8 oz raspberries

• In a stainless steel saucepan, combine + bring to a boil all ingredients except the raspberries.

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Santa Monica Farmer’s Market

September 8, 2011About Usdevteam

There was a period, I will admit, that Matt and I found excuses not to make the long trek to Santa Monica on Wednesday mornings. We sent other people or had farmers deliver directly to us in Eagle Rock, thus bypassing the drive and the parking hassle and the crowds who languidly browse through each crate of prime vegetables as if nobody else is in their rear view.

A Couple of Really Sharp Blades

September 7, 2011About Usdevteam

Last week, exactly when the health department popped in for a surprise visit (we maintained our A people!!!), Matt and I were gifted these glorious knives by a very thoughtful and generous groom who had the most magical wedding in a field (yes, a field) in Ojai. We brought no staff, it was just a drop off of fried chicken, some sides, strawberry + lavender lemonade- it was a picnic for 20 people.

A Trip to Book Soup

September 6, 2011About Usdevteam

There hasn’t been much time for reading lately. My Sunday papers are piled up by the bedside some dating back to February. We’ve been working a lot.

We did get to steal some quiet time on Labor Day and rather than catch up on old news, we cracked open some new books both of which were relevant to our daily lives and inspiring to our future.

Pastrami Chicken

September 6, 2011About Usdevteam

Pastrami what? Pastrami Chicken! Chef Tad, he makes chicken all sorts of ways but this time he did a brown sugar herb brine, coated it in a traditional pastrami crust, smoked it for a couple hours and then finished this guy in the oven. Oh delish.

Photos by George Simian

Here She Is

September 2, 2011Food Truckdevteam

Will you please have a look at our gorgeous new postcard designed by Glen Nakasako of Smog Design? These are the people who made Matt’s handwriting into it’s own font and who designed our jam labels. They primarily work in music designing records and tabletop books for artists like Beck and Hunter S Thompson and k.d.

Slam Dunk

September 1, 2011Silverlake Wine Tastingsdevteam

Sunday Silverlake Wine Tastings is where we got our start. Sundays have become busy full service catering days for us now but whenever we can manage it, we love to go back to our roots like we did last week. Here’s what was served:

There’s Nothing Sour About These Lemons

August 30, 2011Food Truckdevteam

If you should happen to find sweet little lemons while walking your dogs in the early a.m., by all means, make strawberry lemonade.

If you don’t have dogs, please consider rescuing one. It makes strawberry lemonade taste better when you have a furry friend to pet while drinking, and your odds of finding fallen fruit are much brighter with all the walks you will be taking.

New Dessert On The Streets

August 29, 2011Dessertsdevteam

We are fans over here at Heirloom LA of peanut butter cookies, and as you know, we have made a bunch of strawberry jam with the beautiful organic strawberries we have acquired from Mc Grath Farms. Henceforth, the PBJ Cookie. It’s not crunchy, but rather it’s a little crisp and wafer thin and sandwiched with our jam that can be found at Silverlake Wine.

We Say This To Each Other Every Day

August 28, 2011About Usdevteam