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Yesterday I decided to take a quick trip to the beach and jump into the ocean for a swim. The water was perfect and as I laid out in the sun to dry off I started planning my route home so that I could also shop for dinner along my way. Once I was dry I walked back to my car and was on my way. I walked into a little market by my house, and the first thing I saw were baguettes. They called to me and I responded by putting one in my basket and deciding that I needed to make a Panzanella Salad. If you don't know, Panzanella is basically an old school Italian way to use stale bread. You cube your bread and whatever veg you have and toss in a vinaigrette. You let it sit the the bread softens up, and then you eat!! So since I bought a fresh baguette, and you probably will to when you make make this, we'll have to toast the bread. But before we get to that lets talk veg. My go to for this salad never really changes, but you can use whatever you want. I stick to what seems to ...

So it's week 3 as a Californian, and I have yet to get food out of a truck. So tonight I went to Fresco Market in the Monterey Hills, and there they were! I forgot it was Monday, and they have food trucks there every Monday night from 5:30 until 9:30. I was there to buy stuff to make a salad, but that plan side tracked quickly. Out of the 3 trucks that were there I chose the truck with the fish tacos. Only because out of the options, that's what I wanted. I read the menu and decided to go for what seemed to be their most popular dish. It's called a "Sayulita Fish Taco" It's fish, deep fried in an old school dark beer batter, original SFT sauce, shredded cabbage, salsa, and a homemade corn tortilla. And I got the combo, so it came with fries :) Not as healthy as the salad I was going to make, but it was only 6pm, so it's early enough to have a little fired fish. Anyway, let me just tell you that I wish I had ordered 5 of these tacos! First lets...

11 DISHES YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO MAKE BY THE TIME YOU HIT 30 DREW SWANTAK/THRILLIST  PUBLISHED ON 6/15/2015   BY  LEE BRESLOUER   @leebreslouer  87489   SHARE  ON FACEBOOK Sure, ordering takeout every night has served you well so far in life. The girls were impressed by that General Tso’s in college, so why stop now? For one, it gets expensive after a few years of your parents not footing that bill. Plus, you’ve made it to the 30-year mark, so it’s probably time to learn how to cook. Ease your way in with these 11 basic dishes. We promise the recipes are even easier than putting on your pants to answer the door for delivery, which is also something you should work on doing regularly if you’re over 30. MORE STUFF YOU WILL LIKE 6 Food Staples That You Can Make Yourself (Instead of Buying) 15 stupidly simple cooking tips from famous chefs and the CIA  expand slideshow t...

I'm a little early, but I just saw this video and thought it was a good of time as any to wish everyone a Happy and Healthy Thanksgiving! The video is more than a little cheesy, but the faces the little girl makes kills me!  I'm #allaboutthebaste Gobble gobble! Enjoy the day! XOXO -P

Last September while in Europe, we stayed at a good friends house just outside of London. It was a beautiful, old farm house. I fell in love as soon as we stepped in the door.  The house belonged to Andrew and his roommate Murray. Murray made us a wonderful roast Lamb dinner and a Pavlova for dessert.  We had never had Pavlova, nor had I ever even hard of it. But you know what? I fell in love with it even more than I loved the house!! What Murray had made was an amazing and prefect dessert for me. I rarely eat dessert because I am usually too full. I am way more a savory person, not a sweets kind of guy, so I tend to have seconds at dinner and leave no room for dessert. A Pavlova however is a light and airy meringue  that seems to usually be covered in whipped cream and fruit. Most people seem to think it was invented in New Zealand, so I think Kiwi is a popular choice for the fruit. Murray went with berries, and so did I. It took me a year to attempt this be...

In the late 90's I moved to LA for a short time. I just needed to get out of Connecticut, where I grew up, and learn to be my own person. I was 20, and a little lost. Luckily for me, I had a friend from home who also planned to be there for the summer to study art at UCLA. She planned to be there for 2 months, but to my happiness, she never left! So for the year that I lived there I had my friend Nicole with me for when I needed a friend. Once when I needed her, she came through with a crazy easy, crazy cheap, and crazy good recipe for a cocktail party I somehow found myself hosting. She showed me how to make these crunchy bite sized pieces of Asparagus wrapped in soft, saltily, and sweet pieces of Salmon. They were a total hit, and the few times after that, that I made them, they were a hit too. Now fast forward about 15 years later.. I missed them. I wanted them, and I had a great opportunity to make them. The thing was I needed to figure out how to jazz them up a bit. I...

OK, so this recipe is fun for me to share because I learned a few things by making it. 1. Brining chicken breasts should be mandatory. When I took my first bite of this dish I would have sworn that it was dark meat chicken and not breast. As brining promises, it made the chicken SO moist and tender. I think I may have even smiled with that first bite. And 2. If you boil rice like pasta it will come out perfect every time. This is coming from a guy who is really really bad at cooking rice. Even when I use my rice cooker it comes out too soft and starchy. Although this is clearly a recipe that can be swapped out in so many ways, I found that the Eggplant and the yogurt sauce went really well together. If you want to just make Eggplant Kebabs it could be equally satisfying as a dinner. First I'm going to talk to you about the rice. I really have no idea if this is a Persian method of making rice, but when I first saw this method on T.V. the other day Martha Stewart was making a ...