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the kitchen
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the proof (party pics!)
the food porn
the recipes
the about
the drop me a line part
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the latest break in programming brought to you by Guerrilla Atelier

Not that you asked or anything, but you may have noticed a slight blip in the normal schedule of revealing my neuroses and recipe offerings. Well, I have been working. As in a j-o-b, as much as I've been avoiding that three letter word for at least a decade or more. 

I suppose it's not really a job because I'm helping out an old friend who opened a beautiful luxury goods emporium in downtown LA and I have fun every single day. But technically, it's a place of business and I go there for many, many many hours a week and it has greatly cut into the time I devote to grousing. Maybe everyone actually wins in this situation...

Sooooo, I'm getting back on track with the cooking and I have a serious backlog of delicious things I've made over the last couple of months. I'm hoping that if I construct some serious system of rewards and punishments I'll be back on the regular as fast as you can say, "Baby needs new shoes and will get a pair if she gets her shit together". Things to look forward to: huevos sort-of rancheros with chorizo, the perfect Caesar salad (I don't lie), salad lyonnaise, breakfast bacon fregola and some food porn from a beautiful Sunday supper at Magical Merlin's hideaway.

Until then, here are some preview pictures of the latest kitchen triumphs and disappointments, or as I like to call them, my children. I hope you check back for their companion recipes in the coming days and weeks. Until then... 

Soup on! 

 

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PostedJune 25, 2013
Authormelissa mcclure
Categoriesbreakfast, quick pics!, salad
Tagsquick pics!, chorizo, eggcellent, eggscellent, pasta, mushroom, mexican, Magical Kim Merlin, hail caesar salad, salad, huevos sort of rancheros, salad lyonnaise
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quick pics!: a teaser for upcoming posts

here are just a few recipes to look forward to:

curried lentil soup

the 17 minute 350 degree chocolate chip cookie

homefry potato soup with prosciutto breadcrumbs, hashbrown & fried egg

for now... Soup on!

PostedDecember 18, 2012
Authormelissa mcclure
Categoriesquick pics!, gear and miscellany
Tagslentil, quick pics!, chocolate, eggscellent, homefry, prosciutto, chocolate chip, eggcellent, cookies, curry, breadcrumbs, lentils
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curried pumpkin soup: Happy Halloween! or, when good pumpkins go bad

Happy Halloween, all you crazy kids!

I'm not gonna front, I haven't actually made the soup I'm about to suggest to you, but I ABSOLUTELY WOULD. If, that is, I were actually planning on cooking tonight (or any other time soon this season) and not drinking my face off and scaring children. Because that is my real reason for the season.

Tonight I'll be relying on my too-poor-to-botox face and my generally surly attitude to get the point of my "costume" across to the Halloween freeloading youth-- I'll be "Get-Off-My-Lawn-You-Whippersnappers" without having to leave the comfort of my couch or getting dressed AND I'll get to keep all my candy to boot. Win-win!

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PostedOctober 31, 2012
Authormelissa mcclure
Categoriesquick pics!, vegetarian, soup
Tagsthere is no need for an organic jack-o-latern, quick pics!, get off my lawn, recipe, soupapalooza!, is drinking your face off an olympic sport yet?, pumpkin, halloweenie, vegetarian, soup, curry, halloween
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quick pics!: more doorways, plates of food and assorted meshugas

It was a lost weekend...but there is photographic evidence.

I'm just going to throw it out there that there are many good reasons why you don't see a whole lot of 40 year old line cooks in restaurants, the main one being that many of them keel over and die from standing all day. I am exhausted. And I'm not even working crazy hours like everyone else.

Of course I have showed up to work with some pretty good hangovers, too, and that's probably not helping. But anyway, in my old person exhaustion, I haven't written a proper post in a few days, so I'll get right on that (there is much to say, even if you're totally and completely not interested). Here are some more photos to tide you over in the meantime, as if you asked to see my vacation pictures. You didn't. But I'm still offering this mess up.

Enjoy and...

Soup on!

PostedAugust 20, 2012
Authormelissa mcclure
Categoriesquick pics!
Tagshumble-pie-a-palooza!, august adventure, quick pics!, rosemary's, barbuto, doorways of lower manhattan, pump dumpling, murray's cheese, taralluci e vino, highline, public, Union Square greenmarket
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quick pics!: doors of lower manhattan, hood rat stuff & food!

just a few pictures from my first days in New York. Lots of excellent food and even better graffiti. 

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PostedAugust 12, 2012
Authormelissa mcclure
Categoriesquick pics!
Tagsno clogs no way, soho, barbuto, you are perfect, 16 handles, panna II, quick pics!, Crocs of s*&t, five tacos, Balthazar, I hate you, westville east, lampposts, taralluci e vino, soupapalooza!, august adventure, humble-pie-a-palooza!
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