About to drop off the grid for a bit
I've told work that I want to work day and night. Rather than look for a second job, I'll be working around 60ish hours per week at Al Porto, taking charge of pasta. So if you want me, come eat some pasta and visit the kitchen.

Who knows maybe I will even be able to blog about it a bit. Sometimes when I work a lot, I have trouble sleeping.

Hey, on the topic of work, a few things. I got to work with ramps for the first time ever last week. (or was it the week before?) Bourdain loves these things, but I'd never seen them available. The flavour is like a very strong garlic mixed with green onion. Very cool. I made Claudio's gorgonzola cream sauce, only I used the ramps instead of leeks.

Claudio's Gorgonzola Cream Sauce:
2 Leeks, Julienned
Gorgonzola, about 1 cup
About 2 cups cream
Olive oil, Butter, S+P

Sweat the leeks in the butter and olive oil. When they are translucent, add the gorgonzola and push it into the bottom of the pot with a wooden spoon. Season with a tiny bit of salt, and a generous pinch of black pepper. Keep working the gorgonzola, pushing and stirring until it is melted. Now add the cream. Stir occasionally on low heat until it thickens slightly. Careful not to let it boil over.

Anyway, this sauce is really good with ramps instead of leeks. Unfortunately we couldn't seem to sell any. :(

Tonight I will probably be making some kind of morel mushroom sauce. Drool...

Here's a culinary inspiration for you! Chicken skin... ON PIZZA! :EVIL LAUGH: Now that is crazy CRAZY delicious.

Musically, I am really really digging this pop stream album that stephanie sent me. Epic psytrance ftw. I don't think I've heard an album this epic since Infected's Classical Mushroom back in 2000. Very good.

I've purchased(!) CATraxx for organizing my music collection. It is super awesome. So customizable. I've pretty easily integrated harmonic mixing support, as well as adding a custom field for BPM decimal, since not every track is an integer beats per minute. Now I just need ink for the printer so I can print out my new, standardized labels for my CD wallet.

OMG, this pop stream track is SO GOOD. EPIC PSY WOO!