Battle


May 5, 2009

Zero $$ for 5 Days – Monday

by Moto Yamamoto

Preface: Zero $$ for 5 Days on Food Monday was an easy one. Breakfast – Diet Coke. I know it’s not ideal, but every morning starts with this. When I come to work, I drink crappy Green Mountain coffee. Lunch – pickled okra and carrots. As you might remember, I pickle vegetables in a rice […]

May 4, 2009

Zero $$ for 5 days on Food

by Moto Yamamoto

I’ve been thinking about this challenge for a while, but I finally decided to do it this week. I am not spending a dime this week (Mon-Fri) on food. I can still go to Barney’s and buy $35 pair of socks, or get wasted, but won’t spend anything on food. Everything has to be cooked […]

April 27, 2009

Meatless Monday FAIL

by Kayoko Akabori

My Meatless Monday: Breakfast: Cereal and a banana. Lunch: Cold udon noodles and sauteed onions and mushrooms. 6pm: I head to the Oakland airport where I gotta pick up Stacy.Driving down the 880, shit I need to pee. Drive for 20 minutes.Oh, there’s an In-n-Out! Cleanest bathroom off the highway!Brake, cut off car in the […]

March 23, 2009

The Wedding: Tear, Swear and Despair

by Moto Yamamoto

     Preface: Wedding Cake Perfection – Trial 1 Wedding Cake Perfection – Trials 2 & 3 Wedding Cake Perfection – Trial 4 Wedding Cake Perfection – Final Trial The day came, and went. The reception was wonderful, the couple looked very cute as you can see, food was good, and I got completely wasted. That’s […]

March 19, 2009

$100/5 Days/NYC/Tourist: Day 3

by Kayoko Akabori

Preface:$100/5 Days/NYC/TouristDay 1Day 2 NYC is flaky. Trains never come when you need them to. Cabbies pull up, scoff, and zoom away as soon as you tell them you need to get to Brooklyn. It’s 20 degrees one day, 60 three days later. This is the reality of the city, and as a result, the […]

March 17, 2009

Wedding Cake Perfection – Final Trial

by Moto Yamamoto

Preface: Wedding Cake Perfection – Trial 1 Wedding Cake Perfection – Trials 2 & 3 Wedding Cake Perfection – Trial 4 I was going to practice piping last weekend, but it’s kind of useless doing it on a flat surface. The difficulty of piping lies in the fact that you mostly pipe on sides. As […]

March 9, 2009

Wedding Cake Perfection – Trial 4

by Moto Yamamoto

Preface: Wedding Cake Perfection – Trial 1 Wedding Cake Perfection – Trials 2 & 3 Seriously I am getting sick of this. I am usually a perfectionist when it comes to cooking/baking, but the smell of whipped cream is bothering me and worrying about overmixing the batter is giving me nightmares. Why? What was I […]

March 2, 2009

Wedding Cake Perfection – Trial 2 & 3

by Moto Yamamoto

After the initial trial, I learned a lot from all the comments (big thanks to Chef the City!) and decided to try different options. Instead of trying everything, I focused primarily on icing this weekend. As you saw from the last post, the cake didn’t rise well, so I made one following the recipe precisely. […]

February 26, 2009

Wedding Cake Perfection – Trial 1

by Moto Yamamoto

Tmonkey and Ayagwa are getting hitched in March!!! But listening to them talk about their big day and planning was way too painful for me. “I will wear jeans, and Tmonkey will wear a Star Trek costume,” or “We don’t need any proceedings, we can just go with the flow and maybe it will become […]

February 12, 2009

Truffles Not Turds

by Moto Yamamoto

Preface: Kitchen Follies: Chocolate Turd As you know, I have a tendency to fight till I get it right. This only happens when I am cooking. I usually don’t have strong will power, as I’ve already given up all the good things I tried to start in the new year. Smoke less, drink less, bitch […]