youkinorn2

you have plenty of shitty yellow lettuce?

Dinner with Deviant Dale's last night.. had a couple of these. Great IPA.

drank this the other day, too. pleasantly surprised. I need to start checking into things on untapped again

Matt Barnes reminds me of Hugh Laurie

matt barnes reminds me of the biggest sack of shit in the world

the truffle and potato salad was actually not that great, arch rule is that purple potatoes suck. Truffles obviously pushed that dish along, but the truffle and potato salad in Simply French is probably better. I've never made it though, can't afford to buy the amount of truffles required for that recipe.

I think bios actually has a point about the salad, it's tall food, like this unwieldy left-coast flashy American cuisine thing, it's dressed to impress. I imagine it jumps out at him because Europeans haven't seen food like that since the 90's, lol. I do notice that some of the famous name place in America tend to serve food that isn't as graceful to eat, in the name of pulling out the stops and making something that looks fancy, or aspires to be. Bouchon has that laitue salad of Bibb dressed in sherry vinaigrette that comes stocked about 8" tall on the plate, similar thing.

I think of all the 'superstar' franchise chefs cooking in French style, with the sprawling empires - Robuchon makes these voluptuous decadent plates that still maintain an order whereby they're also easy and graceful to eat, it makes you feel the elegance. Gagnaire is like a plating genius who goes for more esoteric flavors and concentrations, like these savoury ice creams that randomly pop up in the menu. TK, to me, from what I've seen - not really on those guys' level. He has some research in and seems he has good control of his franchise, but I don't think he's near the level of the French heavyweights.

I definitely agree about wedge salads being unwieldy. Not my thing, but just didn't think they would be surprising. A throwback for sure.

And I agree about the "height" thing. I don't have near the experience you do eating in amazing restaurants, but the idea that the taller something is on the plate the more impressive/beautiful it is has always seemed contrived to me.

I mostly work garde manger at the restaurant I'm at right now and even looking at that endive salad at Bouchon irritates me, haha

edit. lol@dismal, what kind of trolling is that salad /w blue cheese? how is one even supposed to eat this?

you've never seen wedge salads before? fork and knife, homie.

I'm much more intrigued/worried by that truffle and potato salad ha.

fucking 2007 iris and shit.

OKC vs DAL was probably the best played game today

and lol^

fucking kevin durant man. unbelievable.

My job means I don't get to watch games this season :(

Glad it was a good game, though. And honestly surprised we almost took game 1.

Also, I love KD (I went to UT and watched him play his season there), so it hurts a little less.

Word. I'm going to try my best to go for a while, but who knows...I'll be up there with some friends from here so it sort of depends on what they want to do.

any word on the heady topper drop, shufon? if it happens while I'm up there it is all I'm drinking the entire trip.

edit: except for a shit ton of sours at that thing and that bottle of whiskey barrel aged double pecan porter if you have time, ha

such a great looking bottle.

Cast iron pan handles in natural with hunter orange stitching. Also doing latigo and black english bridle on these, not done yet though

these are a great idea. I'd love to get my hands on one or two when they're done.

What the fuck just happened? Didn't she get pregnant like 2 episodes ago?

she birthed the smoke monster from Lost

^Yah, youkinorn knows better than me what Texas has that NY doesn't. All I know is that I wanna try the new Jester King sour!

I was a little disappointed honestly. Had had a few beers ahead of it, though, so we'll drink some at the event when I'm up there. Das Wunderkind is good for sure, and I'll bring my bottle of it I think.

I'm all about this one doe... DENVER STAND UP LOL

posted at 10:17 so u know it's the real deal... SQUAAAAD

drank this today, enjoyed it.

Texas breweries are better than ever lately. Take a growler of Live Oak Heffe

edit: cracked a bottle of Boxer's Revenger the other day...needs more carbonation. The house yeast version of Black Metal is great, though. I was skeptical, but I like it more than the original.

disservice to willie.

pea puree, orzo, sauteed ramps, favas, watermelon radish, poached egg, mint

spring in my bowl. pea puree, ramps, favas, etc...

that lawson's bottle looks wild

can't believe I just downloaded this Robb Bank$ mixtape. So good.

love melo

love TC

love to hate jr smith

On Food and Cooking is my recommendation for "essential."

that was the cuir with bret, right?

Nice haul at my door today:

any of that ketchup beer?

sometimes you start to think L.L. Bean is #menswear but then you open their catalog to the first page and it's sandaltown.