Hate away, bitches, hate away…
Recipe will come when it’s perfected, for now you can drool.
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Just a quick recap.
January 2009
(well, yes, that WAS me on the left, and that’s @PhilCampbell on the right). Photo by @rojopelo
January 2010
53 pounds lighter. Still have a few to go, and more ink to add.
Yea, I know, you probably didn’t want to see me shirtless, you’ll get over it. I could have posted a shirtless “Before” pic. Be grateful. ;^)
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You should brag about them. GO JEFFREY!!!!
PRESS RELEASE
Media Contact: Misha Houser
714.317.8122
September 14, 2009
California – Restore Equality 2010’s Interim Administrative Group (IAG), proudly announces that Cole Valley, San Francisco resident Jeffrey Taylor has joined the IAG. Taylor’s background in advertising, technology, and new media is expected to enhance the outreach efforts for the Restore Equality 2010 signature gathering campaign.
He replaces former member, Kelechi Anyanwu of San Jose, who resigned from the IAG because she said she believed the group needed someone with more community experience than she believed she could contribute. While the IAG members hoped she would remain on the board, their stated hope is that she remains actively involved in the community and will miss her contributions to their efforts. Taylor was chosen for the skills he brings to the IAG, replacing one northern California activist with another.
“I am thrilled to join this accomplished group, and I am excited to bring my experience and connections in the tech, creative and LGBT communities to the effort. I am clear that we will all work well together to restore Equality in 2010 and create sustainable, replicable breakthroughs in LGBT activism,” Taylor commented when he was informed of the appointment.
Taylor recently relocated to San Francisco after living in Paris, France for four years. A sought-after expert in creative concepting and branding, he has worked for esteemed agencies such a Publicis and Interbrand. While in Europe, Jeffrey organized grassroots communities of online video artists as co-producer of Vlog Europe, the longest-running meetup of videobloggers in the world. He has been selected as a delegate for the prestigious Monaco Media Forum for two years running.
His recent activities include local organizing for the National Equality March, a member of the Organizing Committee of Teach-In For Equality, San Francisco, and volunteering at AIDS Walk San Francisco.
Out and proud from his sophomore year of high school with the help of St. Louis LGBTQ youth group Growing American Youth, Jeffrey was an officer of his LGBT Association at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, has volunteered at AIDS Walks throughout the United States, the Gerber-Hart Library in Chicago and has held memberships with the Stonewall Democrats (Kansas City) and the Harvey Milk Democratic Club (San Francisco). Jeffrey also raises funds and assists HIV/AIDS patients at St. Bernard’s Hospice in his partner’s hometown of East London, South Africa, and has worked on teams creating HIV/AIDS prevention materials for high-risk populations there. Jeffrey has a cum laude degree in Social History and Socio-cultural Anthropology, and can’t wait to marry his partner of 12 years, advertising executive John Bruton.
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“No member of the LGBT community should be terrified to walk down the street for fear of hateful violence. Hate crimes perpetrators must not be allowed to place our communities in fear.” (Statement on Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act, 2009)
“Hate crimes are a form of domestic terrorism. They send the poisonous message that some Americans deserve to be victimized solely because of who they are” (Statement on hate crimes, 2007)
“America stands for justice for all. Congress must make clear that when we say “all” we mean all. America will never be America until we do.”(Statement on ENDA, 2007)
“It is wrong for our civil laws to deny any American the basic right to be part of a family, to have loved ones with whom to build a secure future and share life’s joys and tears, and to be free from the stain of bigotry and discrimination.” (Statement on the Federal Marriage Amendment, 2006)
“While we have come a long way, we still face major challenges in responding to this devastating disease in communities across the country… [N]o state by itself can provide the significant resources to help persons living with HIV disease obtain the medical and support services they need. The Ryan White CARE Act is indispensible…We know that the CARE Act has made a difference not only in the lives of persons with HIV/AIDS, but also in the lives of countless loved ones who have seen despair turn to hope through the support of CARE Act services.” (Statement on the Ryan White CARE Act Reauthorization, 2000)
“We all know what this issue is about. It’s not about how to protect the sanctity of marriage, or how to deal with activist judges. It’s about politics and an attempt to drive a wedge between one group of citizens and the rest of the country, solely for partisan advantage. We’ve rejected that tactic before, and I’m hopeful that we will do so again. I’m also hopeful that many of our Republican colleagues – those with whom we’ve worked over the years on a bipartisan basis to expand and defend the civil rights of gay and straight Americans alike – will join us in rejecting this divisive effort.” (Statement on the Federal Marriage Amendment, 2004).
Taken from here.
Now I understand why I’ve felt such an inexplicable, deep, personal loss with his passing.
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When Manly Men Love Men…
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Here’s a delicious, quick and easy summer tomato sauce.
Goes great with freshly made fettuccine.
Serves 2-3 with garlic bread for a complete meal.
Ingredients:
12 ounces heirloom cherry tomatoes, halved.
2 cloves of garlic, minced.
1/2 medium shallot, minced
2 Tablespoons Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1 Tablespoon unsalted butter
2 to 2 1/2 ounces grated Parmesan or Romano cheese, (I used both).
1 good handful of Italian parsley, medium fine chop.
2 pinches red chili flakes
1/2 tsp salt.
Method:
Prep all of your ingredients first, this goes very quickly. Make the pasta first, drain it and set it aside.
Get a 10inch saute pan hot, add the oil, lower the heat.
Add the shallot and saute over medium heat for two to three minutes until translucent, and not browned.
Add the garlic and sautee for 30 seconds.
Add the tomatoes, salt, chili flakes at once and saute for two minutes over medium high heat.
Lower heat to medium and add half the parsley and half the cheese, stir to blend.
Add the pasta, slowly stir to blend, trying not to break down the tomatoes.
Serve immediately, topping the pasta with the remaining parsley and cheese, add another pinch of chili flake as serving.
Enjoy!
Chaz
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So a week ago I decided to make a chocolate sorbet from my Ultimate Ice Cream cookbook, while it was being made I decide to add a significant amount of heavy cream, and the result was what I can only call “Chocolate Perfection” I need to make it again to write everything down so I can post it. Same with what happened last night…
I wanted dessert, and I didn’t really have anything ready to eat, so I figured I’d do something with puff pastry, and remembered I had passion fruit pulp in the freezer… I figured I’d make a jam to go with the pastry and some whipped cream I’d made the day before… Well as I was cooking the pulp, I realized I needed to add some sugar to thicken it into a jam, then as it was reducing I decided to add pinches of salt, cardamom, and ginger. Things were coming along nicely, but it was clear that without pectin this wouldn’t be a jam, so my brain firing at high speed decided “Grab some heavy cream.” I added a few ounces of cream to the mix and continued to cook it down, and I ended up with the most amazing Passion Fruit Caramel. I cooked it beyond the ‘caramel sauce’ point and went to the soft candy stage. It was so fucking amazing that it blew my socks off, and that takes a lot.
So Tomorrow’s plan is to remake the caramel, and find a store that sells Ghiradelli unsweetened cocoa powder so I can redo the ice cream.
In the non-dessert arena, I made an amazing quick summer tomato ’sauce’ with heirloom cherry tomatoes, lightly sauteed with in olive oil with garlic and shallots. It was heavenly over fresh beet fettuccine, I’m making that again for dinner, and will post pics along with instructions.
I fucking love summer’s bounty!
Chaz
Stay tuned
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From 2003-2005 I worked at a large corporate insurance broker, the kind of place that slowly kills your soul if you don’t have something else to focus on. My focus was on cooking (big surprise), I cooked and watched FoodTV at night, read every online food article I could, and eventually, started hosting a weekly recipe thread over at TotalFark.com (I no longer host the TFKitchen). This was the time when going to culinary school became the itch I couldn’t quite scratch.
This job and the office were abysmal, a group of 10 of use were stacked in a room no more than 10×18 feet, no personal space, no privacy, and you’d better find a way to get along…
Eric who sat about 2 feet to my right was a late 20’s black ‘dude’ his focus was comic books, and being a stoner. For the first 9 months that I worked there, Eric had never known a gay person, and since he seemed hostile towards gays in the beginning, I went with The Gay Agenda – Article 1, Paragraph 1. “If they seem anti-gay, don’t come out until they get to know you. - (it’s really hard to hate someone you already know and like).”¹ So after 9 months he’d kinda figured it out, and asked, and we were cool. (And man was he full of questions about ‘The Gay”).
We became ‘work friends’ who occasionally hung out after, going out for drinks, or food, a celebration here and there when someone, anyone would escape that job.
Five years ago today; August 13, 2004 Julia Child passed at the age of 92. When the news broke, Eric became the kindest person, almost soft, gentle, he knew what Julia meant to me; not as a celebrity, not even necessarily as a cook, he knew that to me she was an inspiration, an ideal, a goal, a don’t you ever give up attitude, and a perseverance. Julia was and still is a Hero of mine. Eric got this, and he got it really well, but I didn’t fully understand how he got it until a few months later, when Christopher Reeve passed. And then it dawned on me, when I found myself consoling Eric. He understood because he had a hero who persevered too….
Here’s to our Heroes, may they live forever in our memories.
Chaz
¹ Actually, to the best of my knowledge, that is the entirety of “The Gay Agenda”. Subtle, isn’t it?
Photographs are © Time Magazine.
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Today I got my 2nd tattoo, I wanted a simple black band, no adornment, nothing tribal, or from another culture…
I wanted something simple and plain. Turns out simple isn’t easy, or cheap…
When it was finished, I loved it immediately, and as I was going home I thought about what more I could do with it. So, the plan now is more bands in different widths above and below the current band. When those are done, I’ll consider adding something else in-between the bands.
And so I begin…
Chaz
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So, earlier in the week I saw these posts in my google reader.
Of course, I had to give it a try. If for no other reason than to gross out Steve & Leigh.
I’m not going to post photos of the baking process, the ‘wet’ ingredients look kinda nasty when you’re putting this together.
But here’s the final product.
The recipe is available over at Joy The Baker and you should give it a try, it’s good to flex one’s baking muscles and try something new now and then.
A few notes if you’re going to try this.
Cake Batter: Even though I had run my avocado through the food processor and thought I had it smooth when I added it to the wet ingredients chunks started floating to the top, I ended up scooping them out and pressing them through a seive. In my oven one cake was done a few minutes before the other.
Avocado “Buttercream” I ended up using a tablespoon of lemon juice, plus a little that I rubbed on the chopped avocado meat while I finished chopping the 2nd.
Also though the recipe says that it’s ‘Vegan’ it will only be truly vegan if you use vegan sugar. Most commercially available sugar is filtered through “bone char” and that makes it very much not-vegan.
Final note, go easy on the frosting, it can overpower the cake. And while I will most definitely make the cake recipe again, I doubt I’ll make the ‘Avocado Buttercream’ again.
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