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Chef Tom – Foodz N’ Vidz
Posted in Food, music, Opinion, Recipe, Review with tags bangers, BBQ, breakfast, Chef Tom, Chicken, colcannon, comfort food, cooking videos, cool vids, dairy free, DBAWIS, dessert, dinner, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Food, food network, food show, gluten free, Guinness, high production value, Hipp Kitchen, Irish food, Lamb, Lamb Chops, lunch, music, Opinion, pork ribs, Recipe, Review Bob Segarini, ribs, San Francisco, St Patrick’s Day, WebSpoon, YouTube, YouTube channel on March 13, 2021 by segariniChef Tom says A-WA to Falastin’s Fine Cuisine
Posted in music, Opinion, Recipe, Review with tags A-WA, Bob Segarini, Chef Tom, Chicken Musakhan, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, DubstEpic Symph / Just Jerk Crew Choreography, Food, hippkitchen, Little Gem Salad, music, Opinion, Palestinian Food, Recipe, Sami Tamimi & Tara Wigley, San Francisco on October 24, 2020 by segarini
Put on some warm socks, sit your lounge-pants-t-shirt-covid-haircut down in front of your computer (like you ever left), grab a cup of tea, or coffee, or a cocktail (the boss ain’t here anymore), and give this a watch. Sami Tamimi is the business partner of my favorite chef Yotam Ottolenghi. He and Tara wrote a beautiful cookbook (which I now own) called Falastin (pronounced Palestine).
Chef Tom – A Potato Chip Omelet, a Plum loco Chicken, and Musica desde la calle
Posted in Food, music, Opinion, Recipe, Review with tags Bob Segarini, Borja Catenesi, Chef Tom, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Food, hippkitchen, music, Opinion, Pan Plum Chicken, Potato Chip Omelet, Recipe, San Francisco on October 17, 2020 by segarini
This recipe, adapted from the cookbook “The Family Meal: Home Cooking With Ferran Adrià” (Phaidon, 2011), is a study in simplicity. The chef of El Bulli, the famous Spanish restaurant, Mr. Adrià created an omelet reminiscent of a Spanish tortilla that comes together in minutes using only eggs, salted potato chips and olive oil. As with any recipe calling for just a few ingredients, quality truly matters here, so opt for the best potato chips, the finest olive oil and the freshest eggs.
Chef Tom, Cowboy Eats, A Short Story, Kempters and Sleepy Man
Posted in Fiction, Food, Recipe with tags A short story "Troubled Route", Bob Segarini, Chef Tom, Cowboy Breakfast Bowl, Cowboy Lasagna, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Food, hippkitchen, music, Opinion, Recipe, San Francisco, Sleepy Man, The Kempters on June 27, 2020 by segariniChef Tom – Meat and Potatoes The Blues …and a Whiskey
Posted in Food, music, Opinion, Recipe, Review with tags arugula, blues, Bob Segarini, cheftom, cocktails, comfort food, cooking, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, duck fat, Food, foodie, guitar, Healthy Food, healthy recipe, Hipp Kitchen, hippkitchen, Italian cooking, Josh King, meat and potatoes, Mediterranean Diet, old fashioned, omnivore, Opinion, parmesan, Potatoes, Prodigy, Quinn Sullivan, Recipe, steak, Taj Farrant, Toby Lee, Tom Herndon, whiskey on June 6, 2020 by segarini
Call me old fashioned. Sometimes you just wanna go back to your roots. Doesn’t mean you can’t apply a smidge of sophistication. Continue reading
Chef Tom’s Morning Bowl and Swinging Sven
Posted in dance, Food, Opinion, Recipe, Review with tags bacon, Bob Segarini, cheftom, comfort food, cooking, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, eating light, Electro Swing, Food, foodie, healthy breakfast, Healthy Food, healthy recipe, Hipp Kitchen, hippkitchen, JSM, JustSomeMotion. Dancing, omnivore, One-Bowl Meal, Opinion, quinoa, Recipe, savory breakfast, Sven Otten, swing, Tom Herndon on May 23, 2020 by segarini
What better way to start your day than a healthy breakfast bowl and some Electro Swing dancing?
Chef Tom – Parker/Parkour
Posted in Food, Opinion, Recipe, Review with tags Bob Segarini, bread, bread and butter, butter, cheftom, comfort food, cooking, DBAWIS, dinner, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Food, foodie, freerunning, healthy recipe, Hipp Kitchen, hippkitchen, James Beard, omnivore, Opinion, Parker House Rolls, parkour, Recipe, rolls, Serious Eats, Tom Herndon on May 16, 2020 by segarini
From the Master himself, the Grand Daddy of the Pillsbury Doughboy himself, James Beard, and one of my top-tiered go-to recipes sites, Serious Eats (includes a secret ingredient for extra fluffiness), comes two ways to make one of THE best bread rolls ever.
We’re all baking now, amirite? Roll up your sleeves, put on some tunes, and pour a glass of good wine. It’s ok to dance around the kitchen. No one’s looking. Except your husband, who knows you’ve gone round the bend, your kids, who are climbing the walls like Spiderman and screaming like Banshee, and your cat, who doesn’t really give a shit.
Chef Tom Jams Bread and Butter
Posted in Food, music, Opinion, Recipe with tags African dance, allergen friendly, Bob Segarini, bread and butter, butter and jam, cheftom, comfort food, cooking, dairy free, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Food, foodie, gluten free, healthy recipe, Hipp Kitchen, hippkitchen, homemade bread, jammin’, masaka kids, Opinion, Recipe, Short Stories, short story, Tom Herndon, Urban Dance Camp, whole wheat, Winter on May 9, 2020 by segarini
Alright, take a deep breath. Notice how much extra time is on your hands right now. Notice, too, that boredom has been kept at bay for a while, but it might be rearing its ugly head a bit more these days. Finally, embrace the insistence, the doggedness, the determination of your body, mind, and soul for pure, straight-up comfort food.
Now, read through these three recipes and visualize the sheer, indulgent, no-place-like-home, grandma’s-in-the-kitchen, oh-my-god-this-is-so-good nostalgia of it all, as you sit down with a good cup of tea and fix yourself a lovely-and-large slice of still warm homemade whole wheat bread, slathered with good butter and sweet jam – that you made yourself!
Got it? Can you see it? Is your mouth watering?
Good. Yum. Continue reading
Chef Tom with a Solo Suggestion a Comforting Recipe and some Delightful Music
Posted in Food, life, music, Opinion, Recipe, Review with tags allergen friendly, Bob Segarini, brass band, cater, catering, cheftom, comfort food, cooking, dairy free, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Food, foodie, gluten free, healthy recipe, Hipp Kitchen, hippkitchen, home cooking, Joyce Goldstein, marching band, Meute, Opinion, Recipe, San Francisco, SIP, Sopa Coada, Soup, technopop, Tom Herndon, Winter, WPO on May 2, 2020 by segarini
Joyce Goldstein is one of my all-time favorite chefs. I own a half dozen of her cookbooks, including one that I return to over and over. Solo Suppers was designed with the single diner in mind, but, according to Chef Goldstein, the recipes double really well. So, if you and your partner are hunkered down together, this would be a great cookbook to own.
Chef Tom’s Tales and Tuna
Posted in Fiction, Food, life, Recipe with tags allergen friendly, Bob Segarini, butterfly, cheftom, chrysalis, comfort food, cooking, Covid, dairy free, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, easy, Fantasy, Fiction, Food, foodie, gluten free, healthy recipe, Hipp Kitchen, hippkitchen, Opinion, pantry, pasta, quarantine, Recipe, San Francisco, Science Fiction, shelter in place, Short Stories, short story, SIP, space travel, syfy, Tom Herndon, tuna on April 11, 2020 by segarini
Editor’s Note – Chef Tom has requested a No-Pictures presentation of today’s column. He wants you to use your Theatre of the Mind to conjure up the characters, locations, and story. Experience the age old Joy and Immersion of Reading the Printed Word.
In the Round Robin writing course, even though I was to write one story per day with a time limit of 12 minutes per story, I liked, from time to time, writing multiple chapters of the same saga. This one was fun to explore. The titles of each “chapter” were the daily writing prompts. They were not linear, either, but putting them all together after, there is a definite arc.
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 