Cafe Duke – brown tuna and avocado roll, brown California roll and a Sambazon Acai Berry + Yerba Mate & Guarana Energy drink.
- Jason
June 30th, 2011 | News
June 30th, 2011 | Recommendations
I’ve never claimed to be a chef, except when sort of drunk. I spent a little bit of time in a restaurant kitchen where I learned a few key things about cooking but really I just learned that I’d never want to work in a restaurant ever again. But I do love cooking and I do hate planning. Most recipes I find online call for a ton of ingredients that you need to go out and purchase and you end up spending like 46 dollars on a meal for 2! Not to mention the whole day you spend staring at the recipe going through very complicated instructions that take a long time. Why not just go out to eat if it’s gonna cost that much!
I usually don’t have a plan for what I’ll be cooking until it’s done. I’m a lazy and cheap chef but I am told that the food is good. SO… I’m attempting to teach you my method of cooking. It’s cheap. It’s fast. It’s lazy. You deal with what you have and if you have nothing then that’s what you use! This is less of a recipe and more of a framework. Use whatever you want! If you’re someone who is trying to learn how to cook for the first time, I have some basic recurring ingredients that will keep your kitchen equipped for something easy and tasty without much planning. Let’s begin.
- Rob
The Fourth of July is coming up and as Americans, we celebrate our culture by sleeping in, devouring massive amounts of food and exploding things we’ve bought from factories somewhere overseas, probably in China. I think there’s probably a parade or something too. It’s hard to believe that after all this time and effort, the true vision of our founding fathers has finally been perfectly realized.
Independence Day might not be until Monday, but so what? We’re Americans dammit, and we’re not gonna wait for some stinkin’ number on some stinkin’ calendar to get our party started. So, without further ado… Enjoy your birthday, America. Try not to burn the whole place down.
- Matt
A while back I told you about some online pals of mine who were “killing it” in their respective corners of the internet. Since then, I’ve continued to seek out and correspond with those who I find to be particularly entertaining on Twitter and Tumblr. Many of them find this to be “creepy” and don’t appreciate the unsolicited Anthony Weiner style pictures that I send them, but I’m committed to following them nonetheless. While part of me wants to keep these wonderful web phenoms a secret so I can seem cool when I talk about them at parties, it seems only fair that I spread the word about the awesome content they’re creating. I’ll be doing this weekly, so check back each Wednesday for an update on what’s hot and what’s not (i.e., my Weiner pics).
This week I want to spotlight an amazing duo who are as hilarious individually as they are as a team. Their names are Ahm and Craig, they live in Los Angeles and London respectively and they’ve never met (nor do they ever plan to). Their distance, however, hasn’t stopped them from becoming very close friends and recording a truly hilarious podcast aptly titled My Favourite Stranger. In each podcast, Ahm and Craig discuss the various goings-on in their somewhat mundane lives, as well as analyze what makes them so similarly neurotic. As a fellow underdog in the battle to be accepted by the cool kids, I find Ahm and Craig’s brand of biting sarcasm and deadpan wit to be highly entertaining. Also, Ahm’s voice is just so damn soothing.
In one of my favourite episodes, Ahm and Craig discuss their childhood affinity for parody songs. Check it out.
- Carlo
June 29th, 2011 | News
Cafe Duke – sandwich (cracked pepper turkey, pepper jack cheese, avocado and mayo on flatbread), Blueberry Crisp Clif Bar and a Sambazon Acai Berry + Yerba Mate & Guarana Energy drink.
- Jason
June 28th, 2011 | Movies
Each week we take a look at a forgotten actor from TV or film. This week it’s the very lucky Jake Lloyd (aka Young Anakin Skywalker from Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace)
I remember being really excited about the premiere of Episode 1 and the idea of a young character who would eventually become Darth Vader. Who wasn’t? Very quickly Jake Lloyd was the source of hatred and disappointment when that terrible movie was released. His wacky one liners and kidtastic attitude really wore me down through that movie. But soon there was a new dufus to hate. Hayden Christensen took the reigns and the face of Jake Lloyd was lost in the galaxy of my head. Until yesterday when Episode 1 aired on TV all day. I looked up and thought, “What the hell happened to that kid? Is he on some bad sitcom that I’ve seen and never noticed? Is he in some cool band that lives in Brooklyn? Maybe he begged me for change the other day…” Read more »
- Rob
June 28th, 2011 | News
Cafe Duke – some sort of shrimp pasta, salmon, pot roast (I think), some other kind of beef, two chicken wings and a Sambazon Acai Berry + Yerba Mate & Guarana Energy drink.
- Jason
Have you ever been to a wine tasting? Did you taste hints of chocolate, or fruit? Are you sure? Do you remember what chocolate tastes like? Did they get angry when you actually drank the wine instead of mouth-barfing it out into one of those fancy spittoons? How can something you drink be dry? Who cares anyway? What other kind of barfing is there besides mouth-barfing? Did you miss this?
Let us know. If you can do it in Haiku form, great. If not, we get it. You’re busy. Don’t worry about us. It’s no trouble. Really.
- Matt
June 27th, 2011 | News
Cafe Duke – sandwich (roast beef, avocado, fresh mozzarella, mayo and black pepper on wheat) and a Honey Green Tea Honest Tea.
- Jason
Netflix Instant is like a deep blue sea of entertainment. Th.is Instant is my weekly pick of 5 new items that were recently added to the site, so you know where the fresh fish are without sifting through the chum.
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Iron Man 2 If you’re like me you didn’t see it in theatre’s because you heard that one shot from the trailer wasn’t in the movie. Ya know, where Gwyneth Kisses his mask and throws it out of the plane… But sure, I’ll put it on and ignore it while I surf the internet. |
- Rob
