The Steak and Hogie Company is the place for pastrami sandwiches in Ventura County. We usually order out and get their pastramis and/or their mushroom cheese steaks. The picture to the left is of its Santa Paula location, which is dangerously close to my abode. I guess you could say I’ve been there a few …
Watch me zoom through my "#100Wed" push ups with the greatest of ease. This video is exactly as it was shot, without any editing or manipulation. You have to watch the whole 12 seconds, mkay? >Click here to watch video :: I tried to embed the video but the ending got cut off.
Just as B and I have "The List", which dictates whether or not we patronize an eating establishment, we also have the Kiss of Death List. The KODL list means that we visited a restaurant, liked it enough to frequent it and get to know the owners, then promptly killed it. Such was the case …
After a bevy of unsavory building management tasks, I worked up an appetite and headed off to grab dinner with B. The Oxnard office building is just down the street from the airport so naturally we made our way to Burrito Express, just a few blocks away. This is not the first Mexican restaurant named …
B and I ate at Jack in the Box (my nickname for it is "Jack in the Crack," not very appetizing but funny) for lunch. Although my tiny town of Santa Paula has its own JITB, we like to go to the one in the next town. There’s something strange about that JITB, we always …
I heard somewhere that the avocado is the only fruit or vegetable that a human can live off. Something about the combination of oils and proteins or such. Well, I guess it may be true of dogs as well. My two labs love avocados.* Our neighbor has an avocado tree so whenever there is a …
For me, the word "food" and "discipline" have rarely gone together in the same sentence. But when I found out my cholesterol levels needed some improvement, I chose to make a change. About eight months ago I started eating oatmeal for breakfast – ever day. Plain oatmeal is too boring for me so I put …
B and I spent a quiet evening at home last night for the 4th of July. I felt like firing up the grill but didn’t want to thaw out the thousand pounds of frozen Costco meat in our fridge so we made hot dogs. Lulu and Ivory, our yellow labs, watched on as I grilled …
Before my current job, I worked as a community youth program manager at a major California museum. Part of the program day entailed serving lunch to over 40 kids. Just to get a perspective on this, think about the biggest family party you’ve had then imagine preparing for it every day for six weeks. Luckily …
Tonight was great as B and I drove to Pasadena to have dinner with our college friend Daniel. We haven’t seen him since Marty’s wedding several years ago and it was great to catch up. It was all planned out, we were going to meet up at one of my favorite old diners in Pasadena, …
