No, Long Beach sux. L.A. has everything you need. LB has 500K and is the 5th poorest city in CA for pop over 100K. Lots of sch!tty shanties around. If they prepared roaches they would never have to go to market except for spice.

"reasonable distance" is limited to LB?

where do all the guys who work at the port eat?

great PoBoy places near the Port of New Orleans, so...

I would have agreed with you Zeke, until the food carts started popping up. There are hundreds of them in Portland now. They have the best street food evah, at least in any US city I've lived in.

Each is one entrepreneur, who has one (or more) specialty dish(es) that he's really good at, and a little capital ($10-20K will start you, if you're handy). All he makes is that one dish (or small group of dishes) and he is an expert at it.

The bad food carts disappear quickly. The good ones multiply and sometimes open restaurants.

I seldom go to restaurants. I cook my own food. I only go to ethnic places, and food carts.

Salt & pepper rice.

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This salad is carrot shavings, blanched in salt water (in batches, 30 sec each, then into cold water, finally dried in a salad spinner) then tossed with vinaigrette; pesto that I made from my sage plant and some hazelnuts; fresh goat cheese. It has to be mixed to eat, but is prettier before mixing.

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My Japanese friend's dinner.

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Mmmmmmm

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Sausage Rolls - Yummo!

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Real ones! :eek: Cool.

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I DID NOT eat this........but MIL did!

I felt like some Seoul food ;)

So I went to a Korean Supermarket nearby and got the ingredients for 불고기, or Bulgolgi....marinated BBQ beef

Marinade is Asian pear, onion,garlic,ginger,soy sauce, sesame oil, black pepper, touch of water..

The dipping sauce is bean paste, hot red pepper paste, scallion, garlic, sesame oil and seed, honey..

It was really really good....


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Chocolate martini's

That is the best thing I've seen here in, well, pages and pages. Yum.

I haven't posted in a while cause I keep making the same crap over & over. I guess I am in a cooking rut.

But, I was bach'ing it last night & I cooked a simple ribeye with a brandy cream sauce & washed it down with a wonderful 3rd Growth Margaux: 2001 Château Ferrière. It was all yummy.

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Ian

This is a pork shoulder aka butt, browned in butter then braised in milk. The braising liquid , after the fat is poured off, makes the base for a gravy. I also roasted and mashed some elephant garlic for an additional smear

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This is something interesting. My wife pickles sweet watermelon rinds, then wraps them with bacon and broils them . Crazy good, savory salty crisp bacon and chewy candied rind.

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Meatloaf

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Looks great !

A whopper with cheese!!

Love them...

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