The Guerrilla Gourmet

Tiny Planet Pizza

2011-12-03T11:26:00.000-08:00

A guerrilla blog post appears from nowhere - and disappears again into the mist... Our most recent pizza (Black Pepper Salame, Broccoli, Black Olives) converted into a tiny planet.

Writings on the wall

2011-01-28T17:22:00.000-08:00

Courtesy of Redhope Sometimes, Change is a good thing... ...as long as there isn't too much of it. We just returned from Santa Fe, N, where we went to college, for a bit of mid-winter relaxation. We were alarmed to find that one of our favorite restaurants, Castro's, was gone! Fortunately, it had only moved to a new (better) location, but kept exactly the same excellent food, prices, and

Writings on the Wall: Video Edition

2011-01-21T15:00:00.000-08:00

I know we usually run a picture of writing on a wall for our "Writings on the Wall" post at the end of every week, but this video of Elmo and White House Chef Sam Kass was too adorable to pass up. If you wait around until 1:40 or so, you can see Elmo do the "melon dance"! One Step Closer to Commercial Urban Agriculture in San Francisco! Back in December, outgoing mayor Gavin Newsom

Making Kimchee

2011-01-11T11:30:00.000-08:00

Elsewhere, Fall brings an irresistible urge to stock up, to pack away summer's bounty in jars, jugs, and bottles to last through the long cold winter. Here in San Francisco, where I swear it is warmer now than it was in July, that instinct for preservation is an afterthought. There are plenty of fresh vegetables locally available. But it still feels good to have something packed away. So the

Shove it in Your Face: Momofuku 2

2011-01-10T11:23:00.000-08:00

Welcome to Momofuku round two. For the next few week we'll continue to explore the Korean/Japanese/Vietnamese/Chinese yet altogether American cuisine of the Momofuku group. We're also going to get into pickling this week, putting ginger and cucumbers in a basic rice vinegar brine and also getting batches of radish and cabbage kimchee going. Look forward to a post on kimchee tomorrow,

Shove it in your face: New Year Edition!

2011-01-03T17:21:00.000-08:00

Thanks to Joe Shlabotnik for the picture With the new year come a new infusion of Christmas gift cook books and a new zeal to look beyond the roast meat, potatoes and sweets that dominated our imaginations during the holiday season. This week's menu is inspired largely by David Chang, whose Momofuku cookbook we've been eyeing for a while, the Veganomicon, whose recipes we've seen cited all

Garden Update 12/16: WInter Browns (and Greens!)

2010-12-16T16:45:00.000-08:00

After a few cold snaps and our first real rainstorms of the season, winter has finally descended on San Francisco. The apple tree is going brown and shedding its last leaves, and the plum is already bare. The shorter days, grayer weather, and a heavy work schedule have kept me out of the garden, but things are chugging along pretty well on their own. Some plants, the parsley, escarole, etc. love

Writings on the Wall

2010-12-10T17:41:00.000-08:00

Bad Granny's Kitchen, Courtesy Ell Brown Most of our web surfing this week has been devoted to The Cornucopia Project. Check out the 43 entries on Thanksgiving traditions and cooking, from across the United States! But there are a few other sites that we checked out. Anthony Bourdain's Holiday Dinner: While our Cornucopia Project members were busy putting together elegant, sumptuous repasts,

The Cornucopia Project

2010-12-10T01:05:00.000-08:00

Welcome to our biggest project in the history of this blog! We are proud to unveil - THE CORNUCOPIA PROJECT! We have contacted bloggers across the country to see what people do (or don't do) for Thanksgiving and we couldn't be more proud or happy to share these special celebrations! We have been so overwhelmed and excited to make so many new friends and discover so many new blogs. We hope that

The Cornucopia Project: Sniffles

2010-12-02T13:46:00.000-08:00

We had planned to have our secret project up and ready for you all by today, but we've come down with the sniffles! Time for some chicken soup with plenty of onion, ginger, garlic, and leek, and a few days of rest. Check back next week for the big reveal. In the meantime, we're going to have some chicken noodle soup and think of summer.

Something Wicked (Awesome) This Way Comes...

2010-11-20T19:15:00.000-08:00

That's right! The creative minds behind the scenes are excited to announce that we've got a pretty awesome project in the works and we wanted to give you all a sneak peak! Make sure to check back on December 1st for the big reveal!

Garden Update 11/16:Volunteers!

2010-11-16T12:44:00.000-08:00

It's been a surprisingly sunny November. Not only has the weather been clear, but the thermometer has come close to 80 degrees on several days this last week. The weather report promises 30%-60% chance of rain for this coming weekend, but until then Fergus is soaking up the sun. Garden pictures follow after the jump. The warm weather has helped the cauliflower, escarole and cover crop

Shove it in Your Face!: Chicken Edition.

2010-11-15T19:52:00.000-08:00

On those occasions that we do eat meat here at the Guerrilla Gourmet, we prefer to really make it count. So when I was craving chicken pot pie, and Tiffany wanted green-chile and chicken enchiladas, we decided to make the whole week about chicken! I just bought a whole bird (a little over four pounds), from a Halal grocery off 6th street and it's poaching up right now! The two of us could easily

Writings on the Wall

2010-11-15T11:00:00.001-08:00

Adam, this one's for you! San Francisco likes to ban things, it seems. Plastic shopping bags in large grocery stores and soda, on city property, were first. Taco trucks were nearly kept away from schools, and happy meals got the axe last week. Before you roll your eyes and snicker, check out SF Weekly's lists of other silly bans. Another big event last week was the second annual Foodbuzz

Pick a peck of pictures

2010-11-11T18:02:00.000-08:00

Week of November 8th Welcome to another week of tantalizing photos of delicious food! We've come up with a new way to have our readers share in which recipes we decide to publish each week. We've picked four of our favorite photos from recent meals and we want to know which one is your favorite! Vote using the poll on the right to pick which dish you want to go behind the scenes and see how it's

Garden Update 11/9: November Roses

2010-11-09T11:37:00.000-08:00

The time just switched over this Sunday, so the already short days are starting to feel even shorter (it would probably help if I got up early enough to catch the new morning sunlight.) Fortunately, the weather is cooperating: we've had enough rain that I don't have to turn on the drip system, but enough sun and warmth that the plants are settling in nicely. We even managed to produce a rare

Shove it in Your Face!: Autumn Approaches

2010-11-08T19:44:00.000-08:00

Week of November 8th-14th We rocked the second-annual Foodbuzz Blogger Festival happened last weekend, and we're in recovery mode: sifting through business cards from all the bloggers we met, trying to filter out the best pictures to pass on and most interesting bites to post on our blog. We're also just digesting all the specialty sausage, porchetta, curry chicken, and cornmeal-crusted pork

2010-11-01T10:18:00.000-07:00

I've come to love Mexican junk food, from the fairly normal (potato chips with a little packet of Tapatio hot sauce right there in the bag) to the more obscure (mango flavored lollipops packaged with individual dishes of lime salt and chile powder for dipping). But one of my enduring favorites are Sabritones, puffed wheat snacks with chile and lime dust. They're junk bliss: hot, tart, puffy, and

Project Food Blog Challenge #2: The Classics

2010-09-25T21:42:00.000-07:00

Sichuan Pepper: It makes your lips tingle Can you smell what the wok is cooking!? Yeah, that's right! Choosing a cuisine for this challenge was, well, a challenge! We've immersed ourselves in a lot of ethnic cuisines over the years we've kept our blog. Mexican food, thanks to Rick Bayless's excellent Authentic Mexican cookbook and the ready supply of ingredients in San Francisco's Mission

Willkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome!

2010-09-19T13:08:00.000-07:00

If you're new to our blog, welcome! We invite you to poke around and make yourself comfortable. We've got some nibbles to the left if you're not sure what you want, a search bar if you're looking for something in particular and below that a chronological list of our posts (if you're in the mood for a giggle, don't miss our first attempts at our now favorite dish - Pizza!) Most of all, please

Project Food Blog Challenge #1: Ready, Set, Blog!

2010-09-19T12:25:00.000-07:00

Hot dog maki with Soy-sriracha ketchup, chinese mustard and pickled cucumbers It seems like there are three kinds of food bloggers. The fabulous gourmet like Salty Seattle, who all seem to ask "how can I convince my guests that Mario Batali is on speed dial (or even chained to my stove!)", the valiant mom like $5 Dinners who all seem to wonder "how can I feed my hungry brood and have something

Hunger Challenge Shopping List

2010-09-16T15:14:00.000-07:00

All for $55.33? Sweet! Feeding yourself on the tiny food stamp allowance is a scary prospect. I generally think of food as one of life's democratic, inexpensive pleasures, and Tiffany and I keep our overall food budget low by cooking simply with frugal but flavorful ingredients. But when we started to add up all the little things that made even the simplest-seeming menu sing, the cost added up

Hunger Challenge Day 4 - This is where it gets tough

2010-09-15T13:37:00.000-07:00

Both this year and last year, I found myself strangely enthusiastic about the first few days of the SF Food Bank Hunger Challenge. We've planned a menu that looks surprisingly delicious, come in a touch under budget on our first shopping trip, and have several filling meals in our bellies. Apart for a strange craving for potato chips, I'm feeling full and healthy. It's midweek, around day four,

Hunger Challenge Dinner Day 2: Spicy stir fried noodles!

2010-09-14T15:13:00.000-07:00

Fuchsia Dunlop's excellent Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook: Recipes from Hunan Province and Land of Plenty: Recipes from Sichuan Province are two of the most lovingly stain-splattered in our kitchen. The xtremely detailed, authentic treatment of Hunan and Sichuan cuisine has opened our eyes to the robust, spicy, and savory falvors of those province, and introduced us to a whole new array of exotic

Hunger Challenge Day 1: Impressionable minds cannot survive on art alone

2010-09-13T09:48:00.000-07:00

As we embarked on the first day of our commitment to eat for the allotted food bank supplement individuals receive ($4/day), our first thought was...uh oh. It's scary to wake up in the morning and suddenly realize that what you're going to eat has a number attached to it. That cup of cereal costs roughly $0.17 and the milk you're splashing on it? Tack another couple of cents onto the tab. In our