Chef Chaz - Playing With My Food

Bleargh…

Chaz — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:45:58 +0000

So much going on, no time to write. Seems to be the way life has become. There’s also this little side-project to get me to move to Squarespace, which has me not wanting to play in Wordpress.

So what’s going on?
I finished culinary school.
I’m moving from NYC to Berkeley, CA
I’m starting an apprenticeship
I’ve quit my job (woohoo).
I graduated.
I’m packing, tossing, giving away and PURGING STUFF from my life.

There’s been lots of good food, and awesome friends in-between.

That’s about it.

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Braised Short Rib Tomato Sauce With Homemade Pasta

Chaz — Fri, 28 May 2010 23:25:17 +0000

This took 3 evenings to make. 1 to braise the ribs, 1 to make the sauce and 1 to make the pasta and put it all together.

The short ribs were first seared, then braised in mirepoix, wine, stock, salt, and pepper for three hours. The liquid was saved (fat removed), and the ribs were shredded in a food processor. The tomato sauce with the meat, liquid, wine, butter tomatoes, etc simmered for four hours.

Recipe after I make this again, I was winging it and didn’t write anything down.

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Mark Zuckerberg is NOT a douche bag…

Chaz — Wed, 26 May 2010 00:46:58 +0000

He’s a cunt.

Zuckerberg Speaks! New Privacy Settings Coming to Facebook (But no Rollbacks)

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I only wish I’d thought to make corn bread.

Chaz — Sun, 02 May 2010 23:22:01 +0000

I made oven roasted (seared, then braised, then roasted) bbq pork ribs, the bbq flavor is all in the sauce. Served with roasted potatoes and carrots, and a nice roll oven toasted and buttered.

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New Song

Chaz — Sun, 02 May 2010 20:21:11 +0000

“I’ve been waiting for so long
To come here now and sing this song…”

This morning my buddy @mikeypod shared this video on Facebook.

It took me back, watching the video, and for some reason it made the lyrics stand out once again for me, the way they did in 1983.

“This is a song to all my friends
They take the challenge to their hearts
Challenging preconceived ideas
Saying goodbye to long standing fears

Don’t crack up
Bend your brain
See both sides
Throw off your mental chains

I don’t wanna be hip and cool
I don’t wanna play by the rules
Not under the thumb of the cynical few
Or laden down by the doom crew”

I’ve lived my life in large measure by those words and refuse to be laden down by the doom crew or the cynical few, and I will never give in to fear.

My New Song is beginning, all over again…

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Murder on a Sunday Afternoon

Chaz — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:13:10 +0000

My hands are Murder Red.

The results will be eaten.

Salad of roasted beets, lemon zest, parsley oil, & crumbled chevre, currently being made.

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Self revelation

Chaz — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 02:32:13 +0000

Today, for the first time in my life, when faced with the question “Why do you want to work here?” I had an easy answer several paragraphs long, and could have gone on longer.

That felt good.

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Citrus & Spice Bread Pudding

Chaz — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 02:57:10 +0000

Hate away, bitches, hate away…
Recipe will come when it’s perfected, for now you can drool.

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Hello New Year…

Chaz — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:44:14 +0000

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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When Friends Do Awesome Things….

Chaz — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:16:57 +0000

You should brag about them. GO JEFFREY!!!!

PRESS RELEASE

Media Contact: Misha Houser

714.317.8122

misha@restoreequality2010.com

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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