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• 08.22.08
  Thursday Night Smackdown: Blintzkrieg! baking, breakfast, cheese, condiments, dairy, fruit, sauces, smackdown, veg/vegan | (34)

  How is this dinner, and not dessert? Not that I'm complaining, but come now, Jews. You're pulling my leg, right? Where did I leave off? Oh, right, with an aborted attempt at blintz casserole and my gradual descent into the gaping maw of madness. I'm back to my standard non-psychotic level of insanity, and that can only mean one thing: I can stop throwing dozens of hours of my life away watching Olympic beach volleyball in a drug-induced stupor.* Also, baked cheese. *Although I did like how they played the cock rock in between serves, to make ...

  Tagged: baking, blintz, canon, casserole, cheese, cooking, cuisine, food, jewish, kosher, powershot
  
• 07.24.08
  Thursday Night Smackdown: The Horror, Y’all. The Horror. chicken, failure, smackdown, soup | (59)

  OH DEAR GOD IT BURNS. Lock your doors, pull down the window shades and turn off the lights: Paula Deen & Friends are Living It Up, Southern Style with "Chicken Divan" and you DO NOT want to be there when it happens. I was there and I will never be the same. MAY YOU ALL LEARN FROM MY MARTYRDOM ON THE ALTAR OF BEST DISHES. Somewhere, Edna Lewis is rolling in her grave with such force that the Chinese should be warned that her corpse may suddenly shoot out of the ground like a horrified torpedo, her mouth open ...

  Tagged: canon, casserole, chicken, cooking, food, food network, paula deen, powershot
  
• 06.07.08
  In which people get the animal fats they want and deserve. beer, cheese, dairy, pasta, re-creations, sauces, sweets | (42)

  All cow fat, all the time. Let everyone's collective panties be unbunched: tofu doesn't live here any more. I'm not giving up on integrating more vegetarian or vegan meals into my repertoire, but I am giving up on frankenfoods like tofu. It's still not in the same category as truly unearthly "foods" like quorn, but my kitchen doesn't need it. Healthy vegetarian foods are easily assembled using whole, fresh ingredients. That's not what this is about, though. Well, at least the "healthy" part: this is real deal mac and cheese, the kind made with a classic butter-and-flour roux, milk that ...

  Tagged: baking, canon, casserole, cheese, comfort, cooking, dinner, food, pasta, powershot, sauce
  
• 06.05.08
  Thursday Night Smackdown: Wherein I Fail to Learn a Lesson failure, smackdown, veg, veg/vegan | (39)

  Another mistake, or a deliberate refusal to learn? I've been wanting to start cooking more vegetarian meals; we're definitely a little meat heavy*, which is both pricey and not super great for us. I've got the Moosewood book and Patricia Wells' Vegetable Harvest, the most butter-and-cream heavy veggie cookbook I've ever seen, and I recently picked up a copy of Veganomicon. It's a vegan cookbook, and I freely admit that while I had read good things about it, I bought it mainly for the title. Because who doesn't love Evil Dead II? "Give me some sugar, baby." I thought ...

  Tagged: canon, casserole, cooking, dinner, food, powershot, vegan, vegetarian
  

...as of late

• You are so not off the hook
• 2008, Over and Out
• Weekend Frig: Yes, I am 12 Years Old
• Waiting for Santa
• Waterloo du patisserie, deuxieme
• Waterloo du patisserie, le premiere part.
• Cheap Ass Monday: Cuddle up with a big bowl of Cheerios
• I didn’t have a single drink, ocifer.