tight -

The twin-soul concept is not new. Plato described it 2,500 years ago. Here is an excerpt:

" ... and when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight even for a moment...

ups and downs

i have my up days and my down days
but never this quickly has an up day turned on me so fast
i reached my plateau around 9.30 pm thursday and its the downhill
im experiencing now -
hopefully i will be at least going uphill on monday

and i believe i have jinxed myself - my recent conversation
with my brother if proven correct - will disrupt
my remaining months here

bullshit......

a red flag....

if a woman who is 31 years tells you that she has never masturbated
please, please take it as a red flag -

for one - that's bullshit
and two - seriously its bullshit

dream job part two.....

research and development of recipes
travel twice a month
working with underprivileged children/ and or families
teaching cooking classes
writing cooking blogs/articles free lance
culinary workshops
a little catering

since the lay off i've had time to figure out what i want to do - but more of what i don't want to do anymore...........

you don't have to say please......

pepe le pew style

le pant le gasp le wheeze

french - spoken in broken english
crossing borders
with a day pack
a camel - a camel packed to the hilt
freeze frame
two days later
and we are still in the same place
here - but we are together
so i guess that is ok....

twitter

i joined twitter - again
still trying to figure it out
eventually the blog, facebook and twitter will all be syncronized
so depending on how long you have you can see what i'm up to -

which is strange - never thought that that many ppl were interested

my twitter...

history

cooking for seniors

it took me a while to figure out the how's and why's of cooking for seniors - until i really thought about it - comfort food
but not comfort food as we think of it but comfort food from 60 years ago

like iceberg lettuce
thousand island dressing
tuna casserole
chicken marengo

60 years ago there was no balsamic vinegar, no " mixed greens "
shit, no frozen dinners either
vegetables were mainly frozen or from cans - and if they were fresh
they were cooked almost to a mush - desserts were pineapple upside down cake
instant pudding and jello were wildly successful and pretty much the newest latest

in the past 2 months i've made food i haven't made since culinary school
french basics and techniques......

60 years ago the food du jour was french or italian
no fusion, no pacific rim, ketchup not salsa
meatloaf, meatloaf - oh did i mention meatloaf


i am realizing that these were the glory days of food
cooking was simple - people still cooked - and had sunday dinners

i am cooking for sustenance now not for fashion or entertainment

i wonder now who will cook for me when i'm 85....

scared.....

i've been all talk the past 5 months about my future plans.... which as of now are not even beginning to pan out - i mean they are on the horizon, but i have no real way to get there - - -

i made a huge life change more than 10 year ago - moved 2500 miles away from home with no job and no place to live and i was able to go 10 years worry free ( that's bullshit )

so i have a decision - i can renew my lease for minimum of 8 months - at an increase of 5 dollars a month - and try to save money for travel - or let the lease go month to month and have the rent go up 100 dollars a month which right now i can't afford

or option three sell everything - move back home - try to pick up work for a few months and then travel - at least then i wont have any bills.....

everything is still up in the air......

today

i was able to see Kaya today, she is beautiful

and she inspired my 5 words of the day

respect, awareness, parsimonious, laughter & desire

today

i was able to actually get 2.4 miles of brisk walking under my belt

it was nice because i went against traffic

help.....

i need two new achilles tendons - where can i find them, how much do they cost?

cameo

one of my favorite apples.....

if i can find it.

lies..

i can't help myself
i'm lying to her all of the time now - it's becoming more than second nature

i blame it on one phrase she told me....
"you're harmless."

think again...

my Lucques story

on the right hand side of my blog is a list of my favorite links - somewhat
and each link has a personal story behind it

i'll go through each link - in no particular order...... over the next few weeks or so

the year was 1999 or maybe 1998 - and i had moved from vegas - i was working at one of Wolfgang Puck's restaurant - chinois - in the ceasar forum shops - around the corner from spago.....

so that job only lasted a few weeks - the pay was bad but i still think that they wanted me to quit - and i obliged

so i moved to los angeles and lived with my brother - i applied at a few places - but one day i saw this really small classified ad - and drove down to west hollywood - and actually went to the wrong restaurant and the hostess said - oh you want the restaurant next door - so the interview process was strange - i got interviewed by the sous chef - she asked me how i made mashed potatoes and took my picture - suzanne goin looked over my resume and that was short and sweet - i went home - made some sundried tomato focaccia and drove down to the restaurant and handed the sous chef my bread and my resume again - and i never heard from them again.... i didn't think much of it until i kept seeing the press for the restaurant and suzanne won best chef los angeles - it is still my favorite restaurant and i look at her menu every few months to see what she is doing....

i'll tell you tomorrow.....

and i planned to - but things came up
work wanted me to pick up a shift - i lied
dental appts - cell phone ringing
texts - updating this blog and interacting with my fb friends


so i'm sorry i didnt get back to you until now - and you know i hate talking to your
voice mail....

funny