I've connected to a PayPal business account. Looking forward to having an online ordering page soon. Until then, you can contact me on FB to order. Thanks for all your support!

Apparently I can choose certain words to keep the spammers off my site. I just had to block any mention of expensive de sign ers in the comments. I was getting as many as 300 spam comments a day, so I pretty much gave up on the site. Now I think I'm all right, so I...

http://www.dailylobo.com/article/2013/12/cfs-is-easy-comfort-food

I will be archiving all the photos I've taken of my cooking school projects and adding some recipes. Since I'm now the food writer for the Daily Lobo, I'll be posting everything I write for the paper as well, pending copyright issues. I will try to figure out how to...

http://www.seriouseats.com/2011/03/ramen-hacks-30-easy-ways-to-upgrade-your-instant-noodles-japanese-what-to-do-with-ramen.html?ref=fresh This has some great things to do with your ramen noodles. Like this guy, I love ramen. I usually prefer noodles from a noodle...

I receive a minimum of 4 spam comments a day. Just so you know, I don't want knockoff NFL Jerseys. I won't buy your gorram Ugg boots. I don't care how cheap your watches are. I will block you. So bugger! If you have something you want to say about punk... or rock......

As many of you know, my friend's car was stolen a few weeks ago while we were at a fundraiser for the CNM Culinary Department Scholarship fund. I had just finished competing in an appetizer mystery basket competition (my team came in second) I had just put my knives...

A few simple tips for a smoothly running Thanksgiving A Thanksgiving feast can be one of the most intimidating meals for the novice home cook. Perhaps the family matriarch has been the cook for decades and now the mantle of responsibility has shifted. It’s not...

Folks I keep in close contact with know that my friend's car was stolen while we were at a fundraiser for the CNM Culinary Arts Scholarship fund. My knives, my backpack and some specialty cooking and baking tools were in the trunk. In total, I lost more than $3500 of...

There's a new instructor for CULN 2212. Chef Mark Patel is a badass. CIA Grad who also worked at Chez Panisse. We started class with the usual first day stuff, then he threw us in the kitchen to make two identical plates with Entree, veg, starch and sauce. We had to...

I have been busy drying tomatoes and red jalapenos. I plan on starting a bunch of jerky once I get back from Battlemoor. How about youse guys? What do you use your dehydrators for? And what cuts and marinades do you use for jerky? Comment below!

Today begins the fall semester! I'm really excited about the global cuisine class I'm taking. I'm still with the CNM Chronicle as copy chief and food writer, but it looks like instead of spending my own money to do reviews, I'll be writing a monthly or twice-monthly...

We would all love to have a dedicated smoker, but those things are either super expensive, or a giant pain to make. You can get a quick smoke using nothing but a multi-zone propane grill. It's pretty simple. So simple a metal-head could do it. 1.  Choose what ya wanna...

I'm making a sample Green Chile Stew for Ken and Jess' wedding. I will post the actual recipe later, but my "secret" is to smoke the whole chickens before I do anything else. I'm using apricot wood, but any hardwood will do. Fruit is best. Does anyone have any cool...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVubC_v25os&feature=colike

Now that I know what I have to do... I'll post my list of required baked goods and my firing list. Required products: 3 dozen Croissants 2 dozen eclairs, filled, chocolate covered and garnished 2 Tres Leches scratch cakes, soaked, filled, decorated and garnished with...

http://youtu.be/YCl2-zrvSlo I was a fan like hell before, but this is the song that really caught me.

So here's Unca Mo's Rant. Don't fucking do methamphetamines. That shit will kill you. If you are gay, own it and be gay. I'll still love you. Don't be like Mr. Chi Pig. Losing teeth and shit. He's gay and it's cool. Hell, our eyes met in the bathroom in the El Rey in...

http://youtu.be/HDh3z8-KGD8

I'm about to walk to my buddy's house with a bag full of apricot wood to start up a batch of pulled pork. I'm taking the camera so I can do a foto-tutorial for you all. It's easy to get a nice smoke flavor even if all you have is a cheapy propane grill. Of course, I...

Gearing up for my Baking final. I'll be making Croissants, Eclairs (including the pate a choux, the ganache and the pastry cream) A pie or tart (it will be a surprise to me on the day of the final) and a scratch cake (Either Tres Leches, Pumpkin Sponge Roll or...

http://youtu.be/uC2_R--KB-4

I use a KitchenAid stand mixer my Mom gave me. If you aren't lucky enough to have a cool Mom with a spare mixer, you can find them on Craig's List or on Amazon. If you can't afford one, you will need to build up some arm strength and get some quality bowls. Glass or...

  This should be a link to Amazon to find the baking text I refer to so often.  

Between homework and dicking around on facebook, I have run out of time to post more recipes. However. You can look forward to directions to make stock (vegetable, chicken, beef, pork or the always popular "what do I have in the fridge and freezer Stock") I'll also...

I promise some pics, some recipes and some more punk rock. Soon. Just freaking busy this weekend. Mo

I have some 300 pics of food I have cooked in the last year. Some of it was for class, some for catering gigs, a couple of shots of food I cooked for my friends' parties and several pics of food I cooked because I was just fucking hungry. Keep checking and the photos...

If you want to see what I do at the paper, check it out! http://issuu.com/cnmchronicle thecnmchronicle.wordpress.com  

Some of you will already have most or all of this. If so, go and listen to some punk which I am posting in a bit. If not, and money is tight, like it has been for me, check out thrift stores, yard sales and used restaurant supply stores. I got my giant 10-gallon stock...

Damn CNM and the whole scheduling process. I got into my last required cooking lab (Global Cooking). Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:30 p.m. until almost 9 p.m. My Intro to Education class? Mondays 6 p.m. to 9. At least my Educational Psych class is online. So now I have to...

I am going to assume a level of kitchen skills and equipment. Plus a level of punk rock knowledge. I really can't help you with the punk rock thing, but I will try anyway. If you don't have basic knife skills, find someone to teach you. Unless you live close. I will...

I just made this blog public a few hours ago. Damn. The influx of folks reading, posting and liking my FB is just amazing. I love you guys. I hope to entertain, educate, shock, offend and amaze all of you very soon! It's almost 11 p.m. so I have to get my fat white...

It's been a long road to get here. Not a difficult one, just long. I want to thank Kenneth Hargis and Corie Weaver for doing all the work involved in getting this blog designed and up. Thanks to my mom, Linda Shapiro, for pushing me to do this in the first place....