making crap, buying crap

First things first, the new midtown monthly is out, I hear that Skinner is on the cover. That probably means there are some paintings of demons with boners inside. That also means that I can finally reveal that I reviewed Udupi Cafe, in Rancho. This place is the bombdotcom (I put that in to make smiller uncomfortable). Go there, now, and bring me the lentil curry. You can just pour it through the mail slot at my house.

Here are my latest culinary victims. They are Cornish game hens. Remember those from the 80s? Well like many things from the 80s they are back. I should have put Ray Bans on these game hens and then they would have been the height of style.
These are braised game hens. Avert your eyes from the overcooked haricot verts. I got lazy and just threw them in the braising liquid (wine, stock, shallots). An aside-why are small green beans with a french name so fucking expensive? They can't really be grown in France, can they? If so, why can't we grow them here? Are we going to let the French show us up like this? The hens are filled with my patented stuffing, which contains raisins, walnust, apples, celery, and lots of sage. No chicken livers because I can't find a regular chicken liver supplier. Where are they going? To Larry Hagman?
I was scouting a new place to write about on sunday, so I drove out on 80 east to watt. Near the airbases I saw a sign that said estate sale and followed it back to a warehouse area. Ella and Liv take note, it is a warehouse chock full of interesting old crap including a stagecoach and millions of clown paintings.

I didn't really capture the breadth of the items here, because I was worried the proprieter would get mad at me, but they bought the estate of Milos "Sparky" Begovic, who owned numerous Sparky's casinos in Nevada and Lake Tahoe. I guess the mob bombed his casino in Lake Tahoe, which prompted his move to Nevada. He was a collector of clown paintings, boxing memorabilia, horse racing memorabilia, saddles, and probably more. The lady working there said that they have ten more trailers of stuff and that they have bought the Ponderosa Ranch set materials from whatever TV show that was.