Happy Thanksgiving.

I hope your holiday is good - I won't be posting again until monday
so enjoy the weekend.

shit you find on youtube at 2am

i don't know what to say....

no sleep for the wicked

it seems that i am not sleeping again - figure its a good time to write
or think - i don't know what im doing - other than i have a time line until the 13/14th of december - and after that im headed east or so ( which is ok - but not REALLY ) my decision - but something

everyone i talk to has or wants to have some sort of input on my future - not to say that is bad - but it would help if i knew what i wanted - still 50-65% of me wants to drop the knives all together - and stop cooking for a while - but the other 45% needs me to stay put until the end of june -

oh i kind of want to be around water really soon - was thinking about driving to los angeles for turkey day - but i'd have to cook

and i ......

James

the grower of sorts
grapefruit
mid town tucson
fresh off of the tree
and some stamps
and my hand

if this is not eating " local " i don't know what is

classic

time's a changing

i have a two week or so time frame - to see whether or not anything is happening
here in tucson - then its possibly back home for the holidays
interesting is that this is the first time we - the family will be in the same place
for christmas since hmm i can't even remember at least before culinary school
so 1992-3 - not sure

Double Check Ranch

this is the menu at the slow food dinner at Double Check Ranch

Appetizers

Beef Carpaccio
sea of cortez salt, water cress, dragoon oils

Prickly Pear Iced Tea
maya tea company

Roasted Bone Marrow w/ country bread and water crackers
double check ranch

Grilled Hanging Tender
double check ranch

Main Course

Butternut Squash & Pink Lady Soup
la oesta gardens & english orchards

Oxtail Stew
double check beef, burnt orange gourmet foods

Beef Polpette and Homemade Pasta
double check beef, tohono o'odham duram wheat and mesquite flour

danish rolls
mona's bakery

Farmer's Market Fresh Vegetables

El Norte, " Red ", R/R Wines
dos cabezas wineworks - sonoita

Prickly Pear Lemonade
cold creek ranch

Dessert
Danish Kringles
mona's bakery

Fresh Roasted Coffee
adventure coffee roasters

the password is crazy...

......

predicting the future

I wrote this about a month before i was laid off - fired


tonite i am wondering with all the ppl in the f&b department at work being let go
will i be next - i think i survived the first round of cuts but come new year - i may be s.o.l. - but ill get to sleep....

one of my many catch phrases