Nate Cohen, a KCRW volunteer, sent us this video that he co-produced with Jon Blitt.  Their show is called the amuseboucheshow; a culinary web show – well, sort of.  Check out one of the recent episodes.  Very funny.

Here’s a delicious recipe from Chef DJ Olsen of Lou Wine Bar in Hollywood.  He will be speaking with us from the Santa Monica Farmers Market on Good Food this coming Saturday, February 20.
Yield: 4 servings
Note: Dry-pack scallops are those not treated with sodium tripolyposphate, or STP, a chemical used to bind moisture in seafood. STP is most frequently found in frozen scallops. STP treated scallops are nearly impossible to sear to a nice golden brown as excess water leaches out during the cooking process causing them to steam rather …

Cherimoyas – bumpy skinned sub tropical fruit with sweet white flesh and several seeds.  Eat when soft to touch like a ripe avocado.

Peacock kale and curly red mustard look beautiful in the morning sunlight.  Both tasty greens can be cooked and eaten as a salad or accompaniment to main dishes from pasta to lamb.  Coleman Family Farm: Wednesday Santa Monica
Perfect heads of Little Gem lettuce are a restaurant favorite because their presentation is so cute.  Coleman Family Farm
Patrick from Carlsbad Aquafarm shucks oysters for snacking at the stand up …

With St. Patrick’s Day just around the bend, our thoughts turn to all things Irish.  A listener told me about this great cooking school in Ireland called Ballymaloe Cookery School.  She took a 3 month cooking course while living on their 100 acre organic farm and said it is a spectacular place.
Wouldn’t this make a wonderful vacation?

More of Good Food Producer Harriet Ells’ report from Vancouver:
Eighty countries are represented here at these winter Olympics.  Many of them have houses for fans to gather.  Last night a few of us went to the German house, which served beer, sausages and sauerkraut. 
 

Chef Susan Feniger is the latest chef to participate in KCRW’s Guest DJ Project.  Susan has endless enthusiasm and creativity in the kitchen, but her personal soundtrack is designed to slow her down.  She favors songs that inspire introspection, with themes of hope, love and loss.  Susan is the owner of Susan Feniger’s Street and co-owner of the Border Grill and Ciudad. She will also be competing on season two of Bravo’s Top Chef Masters premiering in April.

I love vintage kitchen tools.  Here are some courtesy of thebrooklynkitchen.com, plus a few from my own kitchen!
Grape Crusher, thebrooklynkitchen.com
Cherry Picker, thebrooklynkitchen.com
Rotary Salad Spinnter, thebrooklynkitchen.com
From my kitchen, a butter curler (although not officially vintage)
Also from my kitchen, a spring beater or whisk
A jar opener – from my kitchen

Good Food producer Gillian Ferguson headed out to the LA Street Food Fest last week…here’s her report…
At 11 am on Saturday morning there was a line stretched across 4 blocks of downtown LA.  The smell of bacon and french fries wafted down 6th Street.  When asked how long he’d been waiting, one anxious young man said he’d arrived at 9am.  The 1st Annual Street Food Festival was set to open any minute – the crowd was hungry.
Featuring 35 food trucks and carts from across Los Angeles, the Street Food …

Good Food producer Harriet Ell is in Vancouver right now.  She’s sending pictures and reports.  Check out the Japadog, a street food sensation in Vancouver.  The carts (there are 2) inspire Kogi-like lines.  It’s a Japanese-style hot dog.  Looks yummy!

Have you heard of Belgian Blue cattle?  They’re huge!