Vegetarian Sopes

Vegetarian sopes with guacamole, sauteed mushrooms, crisp fried ancho chile strips and cotija cheese. Easily converts to a vegan sopes recipe, too! Sopes are a thick corn tortilla shell filled with anything you like and they make an easy weeknight meal.

Sweet jebus, this is the best vegetarian recipe I’ve ever come up with in my entire life, I think. Sopes are kind of a thick corn tortilla “boat” filled with all kinds of stuff, but usually there’s some refried beans involved. I used guacamole for these vegetarian sopes but feel free to swap that for…

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HHH038 How to Taste with Becky Selengut

Becky Selengut is my new food-person-crush because she has written my new favorite food book! How to Taste isn’t a cook book exactly, but it is definitely a food book. The book is organized into chapters about the six tastes (salt, acid, sweet, fat, bitter, umami) plus aromatics, bite, texture and “everything else”. With witty writing,…

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Becky’s Bloody Mary

Bloody Marys have always been a cocktail I like in theory, but never in practice (except for one time in New Orleans but I can’t remember where we were and I’ve never found it again). They’re typically thick and acidic and flat. But after reading my new favorite food book, How to Taste, and interviewing…

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Habanero Pesto Shrimp

Habanero pesto shrimp

When we first moved to LA from Austin (almost three years ago, holy cow!) we came with but one Mexican restaurant recommendation in our pockets. Kay N’ Dave’s in Culver City. Habanero pesto shrimp was a thing on the menu and for a while it was Chris’s favorite thing on the menu until they re-did…

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Sesame Cole Slaw

A simple, sweet and sour sesame coleslaw. This no-mayo slaw is similar to the Salt Lick recipe but a little easier to make at home

I would love to call this Salt Lick coleslaw, since it is quite similar and Salt Lick coleslaw is one of my favorites (it’s actually so good, it’s worth the 45 minute drive from Austin any ol’ day) but the original Salt Lick coleslaw recipe is already online and I could never get it to…

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Vegetable Lo Mein

Vegetable lo mein recipe - very simple and quick weeknight dinner. Can be made vegan and vegetarian, as well

S’not vegan, or even truly vegetarian, but this vegetable lo mein recipe is a delicious way to eat vegetables and pasta together (that isn’t pasta primavera). The key flavors here are sesame oil and oyster sauce, which is sometimes made from real oysters and sometimes not. The real-deal oyster sauce tastes rich and meaty with…

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HHH037 Drinking Beer with John Verive

Chilling out with cicerone John Verive (Beer of Tomorrow) talking about beer and tasting beers. We discuss IPAs, sour beers, wheat beers, cans versus bottles, surprising beer-food pairings, which beers age well (and which ones do NOT) and best beer service in LA. This podcast will put you in the mood to drink some beer.…

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Whole Wheat English Muffin Bread

Whole Wheat English muffin bread - all the crispy crust of English muffin bread, made with 100% whole wheat flour. Make a great slicing and sandwich bread

I remember when my mom started making English muffin bread — I was definitely under age 10, probably around eight. It wasn’t memorable because my mom didn’t bake much. She did, I think. She’d bake banana bread or cookies or brownies with my brother and me every other weekend or so. Though, it was mostly…

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Catch up with Hilah and Chris! HHH036

Well well well, what have we here? A new podcast?! Five months later?! Here’s a quick 30 minute podcast update on what Chris and I have been up to since October. We talk about our recent film project, from the pre-production to post-production, with some tips for other low-budget filmmakers. There’s a lot to cover…

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