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Huevos Rancheros: Home Restaurant (Los Feliz)

Posted on November 28, 2011 by EL CHAVO!

From their menu:

Home Huevos Rancheros*

A crispy corn tortilla topped with black beans, two eggs over medium, peppercorn sauce and melted cheddar cheese! Served with our famous home fries and guacamole on the side.

Aside from the black beans on the tortilla it seemed like a safe enough bet. Instead it turned out to be one of the joke plates I try to avoid, but I kinda knew that would be the case. I was mostly intrigued to figure out this peppercorn sauce. As far as I can tell it just means they put some corn in the weak tomato sauce that has one “pepper” aka chile in it. Possibly a bell pepper since there is no hint of the magic burn of chiles. They add some cheddar cheese under the sauce that goes over the overcooked eggs.

Look at those hard beans getting in the way! And look at this, TWO properly fried corn tortillas stacked on top of each other, making it difficult to cut and eat. I don’t know where Americans get these weird ideas of stacking all kinds of things together into an HR plate, don’t they go out to eat at Mexican restaurants?

Afterwards I was no longer hungry plus I had a good chuckle. But a good plate of HR’s is elsewhere.

1760 Hillhurst Avenue
323.669.0211
www.homelosfeliz.com

End of the Mural Era

Posted on November 11, 2011 by EL CHAVO!

At least at Martha’s. Remember when last month I told you about the end of the Alza mural at Martha’s Kitchen? (Oh wait, that was last year. What happened to all those months?) Well it looks like some spray can happy kids ended up getting on the nerves of the proprietors. Not only is the painted sign gone…

…they’ve gone and installed a window instead! Probably a good idea as it was quite dark in that eatery with the overgrown Ficus out front. Plus they can keep an eye on people wanting to mess up the remainders from their painted sign glory days. You can kinda make out someone looking at me as I took this pic. I’ve got my eye on youse.

End of the Martha’s Mural Era. Candle coming soon.

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Halloween Traditions Dying

Posted on November 1, 2011 by EL CHAVO!

Last year I wanted to write this post because I was livid and angry at how pathetic the Halloween holiday had become: Americans will spend lots of cash on the holiday but hardly anyone comes to the door to ask for treats. This year I’m just sad that it really is dying out, customs being replaced probably by some lame artifice. Except I don’t know what the replacement is, probably the Mall, the commercial district, or something stupid. All I know is that kids are not going trick or treating in the numbers they should be. At least not around here.

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Halloween Customs

Posted on October 8, 2011 by EL CHAVO!

For when a costume is not enough. I will take something of a prankish nature that won’t lead to jail time, please.

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Dumb Photos

Posted on August 28, 2011 by EL CHAVO!

Many of you might think that my interest in the banal is due to the technological wonder of digital photos, assuming that the relative cheapness of digital media leads to pictures of nothing, or subjects that should be relegated to the trash heap. Unfortunately, my love of stupid shit has been around for some time now. I’ve been cleaning up some of my space and came upon a stash of real developed photos that I’d shoved into a lunchbox I was tossing. It is quite the time capsule, taking me back to the not so recent past that means nothing to anyone other than me. So be it. But take a look anyways.

That photo above: Somebody came to tell me that the weird kid from a few doors down was eating flowers. I took a picture of him in the act. We tried to stop him but he was crazy and didn’t care what we thought about his diet. His mom knew about it, so we had the right to just laugh at Lil Loco and his way with the flores.

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