Hour Magazine – A List – June 2009 June 15, 2009
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Inside the Box
We’ve been sipping milk from cartons since elementary school. But somehow, we never made the carton connection with water. Until now. Grand Rapids-based Boxed Water Is Better plans to reduce its carbon footprint by selling water from Minnesota in boxes made almost totally of renewable resources. Boxed Water dedicates 20 percent of its profits to foundations that benefit water and trees. Look for the boxes at a metro Detroit retailer soon. boxedwaterisbetter.com.
Squeaky Green
How to stay clean and help the environment? Suds up with Pangea Organics Bar Soap. When you remove the soap from the seed-studded package, soak the package in water, then plant it. We liked the Malagasy Cinnamon Cassia with Cloves, whose plantable package sprouts into a spruce tree. Other packages transform into flowering amaranth, sweet basil, and other flora. $8/bar at Macy’s and Whole Foods stores; pangeaorganics.com.
Hands-on
Marcia Hovland’s intimate boutique in Royal Oak carries hand-painted ceramic tiles, buttons, ornaments, and jewelry crafted by Hovland herself, as well as other local artists. Top item $28 and bottom item $24, at Marcia Hovland Studio & Gallery, 415 E. Fourth St., Royal Oak; 248-398-2951.
Green Style
Verdant stretches of grass are lovely, but a splash of color improves most landscapes. (Even Tiger Woods dons red on tournament Sundays for good luck.) For style-minded female duffers, Keri Golf offers floral- and geometric-patterned bags, head covers, totes, and duffels — for fashion — if not good fortune — on the links. $85 to $375 at area pro shops.
Who’s the Bossa?
Few types of music suggest summer more than the lilting Brazilian import called bossa nova. And when the whispery vocals of Diana Krall are paired with lush orchestrations by Claus Ogerman, you’ve got a combination that’s as soft and intoxicating as a June breeze. Krall’s 12th album, Quiet Nights, includes tunes by bossa master Antonio Carlos Jobim, such as “The Boy from Ipanema,” “Este Seu Olhar,” and the title tune. But other classics are reshaped, like “Where or When” and “Too Marvelous for Words,” giving them a fresh rhythmic identity. At music outlets.
Textbook Cooks
deally, our culinary education begins at a young age in the family kitchen. Later, the right cookbook makes all the difference. Enter Max and Eli Sussman, two brothers from Huntington Woods, whose childhood household was dedicated to from-scratch cooking. After U-M and MSU, they published Freshman in the Kitchen: From Clueless Cook to Creative Chef (Huron River Press, $17.95) to share their love of home cooking. In addition to recipes for novices and experienced cooks, Freshman offers tips for stocking the pantry and grocery shopping. At area booksellers.
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We are really honored to be included in HOUR Magazine’s The A-List for June. This is without question the closest we will ever get to Diana Krall and we are ok with that.
But here I gotta point out that if we were the editors of Hour we’d ditch “The A-List” and call this page ”The A-Team” in honor of one of our favorite TV shows of all time. And then each month we’d attribute each selected item to one of the 4 main characters. Actually I’m about to do that right now.
Those water cartons (pretty sure tap water has a small carbon footprint) are consumed by B.A. Baracus. He’s gotta stay hydrated with all those heavy chains and he absolutely pities wasteful fools.
Face takes the organic soap bc he’s metro and dirty hands can mess up his awesome suits.
Hannibal snags the clubs AND the Krall CD bc he’s in charge (and dude loves to unwind any way possible with a cigar).
Which leaves Howling Mad Murdock with his very own copy of FITK. He not only flies the chopper but now he can cook dinner for the A-Team as well.
So may the A-Team never go hungry while they battle gangs, try to clear their name and bring about justice all while basically only shooting at the dirt near people’s feet for 6 seasons.
So thanks again for the awesome mention, and yes Hour Mag, feel free to run with this A-team idea. it’s yours for the taking
SC3:Return of the Za June 8, 2009
Posted by Eli in : Uncategorized , add a commentTis summer time, so that can only mean one thing. SEQUELS! Big budget, multi-set piece, celebrity filled tweaks on an existing formula that brought home the bacon the first time, so why not do it again (and again, and again…).
Super Club IS in Hollywood, so in the spirit of the great American blockbuster, we decided that for the sequel to “Supper Club 2: Appetizers” we’d go with a tried and true – the pizza party – but improve on it and make it all our own. So in true Hollywood ”take an existing concept” fashion, we unveiled “SC3: Return the Za”, the Supper Club’s third incarnation.
Our Super Club prides itself on setting the bar high (like achieving at least a 1:1 ratio, persons to bottles of wine consumed) but I was pretty surprised to see how all out my friends at 8449 had gone to make this a truly memorable feast. Not only is 8449 (http://eightfourfournine.blogspot.com/) an unbelievable apt, but they got all Martha Stewart on us and pulled out all the stops for SC3:
Martha’d say of the above: “This table setting is rustic, simple but elegant and ready for guests to cram together and share in an unforgettable meal. Now i’m gonna go change into one of my 50 pastel polo shirts and brush my horses.”
While people we’re casually strolling in, we started with some appetizzees. Mozza is an 8449 favorite so we had some tasty Silverton/Batali creations. I made a Italian stuffed pepper bite size app by slicing baby peppers lengthwise then layering mozzarella cheese, sausage sauteed with garlic and heirloom tomatoes, basil and oregano and then a generous shaving of parmesan cheese over the top. In true Freshman in the Kitchen fashion, it was super easy and took about 12 minutes total including ‘melt time’. There were none left by the time we started making pizzas so I’m going to have to go out on a limb and say that’s made the cut for cbook numero dos.
(Not pictured are the goat cheese stuffed figs wrapped in applewood bacon that were soooo rich, Robin Leach popped out of no where to tell us just how rich they were).
Once we got down to the dirty dirty making pizzas, I constructed somewhat of a masterpeice with my buddy Aaron. Once we had the crust, we gave it a generous heaping shmear of the homemade pesto, then layered grilled zucchini, small peices of broccoli, large leaves of basil, rosemary roasted crimini mushrooms, goat cheese, salt and pepper and some dried oregano. It was essentially the best pizza I’ve ever had. Below is a killer action shot from before we got all the toppings on.
Here’s also a nice shot of the island full of some toppings and some Za. I spent all night waiting to shout out any of my favorite pizza related movie lines but Sal and Mookie from Do the Right Thing don’t go more than 2 words without dropping F bombs and the right opportunity never presented itself.
For any of the below recipes, just contact us through the site . In this economy, we are gonna have to ration them out, so just 1 recipe per person. So if you want to collect all 4, you are gonna have to be sneaky and get your friends to email us.
1) rosemary roasted crimini 2) sausage stuffed mushrooms 3) mini pepper pizzas 4) goat cheese stuffed figs wrapped in applewood bacon
We saw the kid from Slumdog!! June 5, 2009
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Zen College Life just started a new award for College Post of the Month. It’s basically like the Academy Awards of monthly blogging that’s college related. We were lucky enough to be selected as a winner from amongst a pool of qualified nominees. We had no idea this would happen, but hey, look here – we wrote down a list of people we want to thank off the cuff. If you play us off the stage with classical music, we will be pissed.
We want to first thank the other nominees (especially Angelina) where are you!? OMG! We told ourselves we wouldn’t be nervous!!(but we are!). The other bloggers, posters, twitter-rer’s, flickr-er-er’s and facebookers all have mad social networking game. We are really just so happy to get noticed. Bigtime thanks to DormDelicious for letting us guest post and then telling us “your post is good” which was excellent for our self esteem which has been suffering as of late.
If you haven’t yet read the post at DormDelicious check it out here: http://www.dormdelicious.com/ideas/dorm_room_cooking_easier_and_more_delicious_you_think
New Press in The Daily Press! June 2, 2009
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Thanks to the Daily Press in Newport News, VA for including us in the graduation gift guide. Getting included in gift guides make us feel warm and gooey inside. If sales in VA spike, we only have one place to thank for that.
