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in the lab w/ dr. shim: kale, cambozola, mushroom and bacon pasta salad

  -crisp 6 slices of quality bacon, cool and crumble -crumble 1/2 a cup of cambozola -pan fry (in butter) 1 cup of baby bella mushrooms (or chanterelles ) -prepare 1 pkg of fiber gourmet rotini pasta -grate 1 cup of gruyere de comte -1/2 cup of whole cream -saute 1 large bunch of dino [...]

it burns so good: enter the ghost pepper/bhut jolokia

really, it seems like a “guy thing” but deliciousness iz universal, yo. step up and feel the heat. aaaaaahahhhhhhahahahahh!!!!!!!

go with god: chimay grande reserve

maybe it’s just me but after tasting this vonder-beer, i can only say: shave your head and pack your bags for belgium. these felonious monks have basically solved pi in beer form. good for what ale’s you-get thee to a monastery, bitchez.

so effing recommended: lourdes castro’s latin grilling

most of the time cooking for the hella-rich and then teaching snotty white kids will turn your old world rustic soul to a crack n’ hookers mush but, not this time. this wonderful book is basically a heartfelt fuck you to tex-mex and reminds us all that brazil, argentina and of course, cuba (just to [...]

the customer isn’t always right: i like killing flies

fuck! FUCK!!! FUUUUUCKKK!!!! ; love this doc. no one got rich but some people got happy, fuck the rest.  

shut yer piehole and start the day off right!

[posted by sexy celebrity intern as shim experiences creative crisis, muttering "to blog or not to blog..."] it’s texas, in winter, and some bitchez be screaming about the snow. even though we got, what, 2 inches max? unreal. okay, so there was ice, and my neighbor (who has obviously never experienced ice in all its [...]

going coastal: ford farm’s coastal cheddar-smoov shimmy’s cheese o’ tha week

i pondered long and hard over which recipes to post with this absolutely fabulous, seriously stellar cheddar … fuck, that short list is longer than a hunter thompson tirade at a republican fundraiser… ok, so this is a pasteurized cow’s milk ched and not raw milk, but goddamn, those limey (i tease because i love) [...]

when in doubt, go goat: cablanca goat gouda

afraid of goat cheeses? love gouda? don’t know where to dip your taste buds first? why not start with a goat cheese, which happens to also be a damn fine gouda and from holland, that is mild on the goat but so big on the mouth-humping nuanced flavor? ding ding ding!!! here we have a [...]

otherwise they wouldn’t need the lights: advice from thelonious monk

word.

a gastro-orgasmic breakfast: shim’s the crowd pleaser

here’s an entry from my forthcoming cookbook. i have titled this one the crowd pleaser because, well, it is. this here, real simple and easy breakfast embodies everything i try to achieve as a chef: seek out the best ingredients and then, DON’T FUCK THEM UP. simple, yes? basically, this is an eggs, ham and [...]