Ladies and gents, Joy and I have reunited for yet another bake out session.  This time we feast on Bread Pudding.

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I was making a pizza last week.  It had roasted potatoes on it and olive tapenade. I had a friend over and she really liked it. Then the next night I wanted more. The great thing about my thinking around pizza is that it’s relatively undefined. I think of pizza as flatbread with stuff on it, cut in either squares or triangles.

I had leftover chimichurri from something else I was working on and bought a bunch of meaty portabellas. I get the whole wheat Traders Joes dough. I sauteed the mushrooms and used the chimichurri in place of red sauce. Then I topped it with the mushrooms and added some caramelized onions at the last minute.

I highly recommend doing this. It all took about 10 minutes and it was absolutely delightful.

I used to do a section called What to Wear. It was my favorite section. But I got lazy taking pics of myself – it’s weird! However, for the most recent Bake Out shoots, I had to plan things out a bit…email around with Joy, etc and just to whet your appetite a tiny bit, I wanted to share an outfit… and reveal what we’ll be baking up next!

Here I am wearing a Tsumori Chisato balloon mini plus H&M shoes. … get stoked for BERRY PIE!

Joy and I have been busy baking out this week. We’ve got a few more episodes of our series… Here are some sneak peaks.

Not the same for anyone.

A few yummy pics from a house party we did a few weeks back.

Looking pretty good… Giving cred where cred is due.

Last night after driving 12 hours from a Memorial Day blowout crawfish boil in Park City, we finally got back to the LA area around 11:30p. Passing through the SGV, we decided to stop for some late night Chinese snacks at Dragon Mark, which I kept calling Snack Dragon.. a mexican late night place in NYC. We had a bevy of dumplings and pancakes. Favorites were veggie steamed dumplings and scallion pancake. We got two. All = perfect.

Joy the Baker and I launched our series today… Bake Out With Jill & Joy. Cooking Channel listen up! We mean… watch! It’s not even 9am here in LA and almost 1100 people have watched the video already. Bing bing bing bing!!!

Here’s the video… but head over to Joy’s blog to leave a comment.  You could win a spatula, whisk, or Culinista Kitchen Bundle! (you can leave a comment here too… but won’t get a prize) Oh la la! Happy Memorial Day Weekend! This week has been bananas!

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Sometimes LA is the coolest place ever. Like when one of your favorite restaurants from your Soho days in NYC finally opens in the Country Mart a mile from your house, you go tot he opening night, it’s not that crowded, and Cindy freaking Crawford is there. All of that actually happened last night. Now, I’m not saying that my I-Miss-NYC ‘tude from last week is gone… but I mean, it’s Cindy Crawford! Sure, her husband’s a backer of the restaurant… but that doesn’t mean that she necessarily needs to go to it! But she did last night. And she looked GORGEOUS. I mean just drop dead amazing.  Funny thing is, when I took this picture, I was just taking a pic of the general ambiance.. and then about three minutes later I saw her and realized I had snapped this pic. Go figure a snappy snap in LA would end up celeb-infused. Her presence did sort of put a sparkle on everything.  I managed to take pictures of all our food but have to say I was totally awed by the place because of her… they could have put plastic corn in front of us and I might have thought it still tasted good.

Luckily, the staff didn’t get flustered by you know who and even in her presence, treated us like the prom king and queen. We had grilled corn (baby how I’ve missed you!), shrimp ceviche – goo goo gah gah – and some chips and guac to start.

Num num num num…. Now, post appetizers, I’d finally gotten used to the Cindy-vision. But then… outta left field… who’s sits down next to her!!??? Like, as if to prove that all famous people definitely DO know each other… check.it.out.dude.

That is Kenny G! Well friends, onto the main course. Huaraches Vegetariane and Mahi Tacos. Both clean=plate worthy. Add a side of plantains and you’ve got two happy campers.

We stuck around for a while after we’d finished eating, enjoying the, huh, crowd, and finishing some yummy drinks.  Malibu seems complete now. We’ll be back. Tonight.