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  • 12.24.08
    Waterloo du patisserie, le premiere part. failure, sweets | (11)
    It's so nice to officially be on vacation, to be able to stay up late, sitting by the twinkly Christmas tree, taking the time to reflect on a day spent puttering in the kitchen with Christmas baking - I cozied up with the KitchenAid, sifted and whipped and piped, sang along to the best version of "Jingle Bells" (Sinatra), and failed utterly to produce a single correctly-formed macaron. God, I love the holidays. Also, on Christmas - which, if you don't know, is tomorrow - I turn 31 AND I discovered several new gray hairs along my part today. Why ...
    Tagged: baking, chile, chocolate, cuisine, dessert, french, macaron, mexican, pastry
  • 12.19.08
    Thursday Night Smackdown: That’s a big nooder leftovers, pork, smackdown | (10)
    Man, I cannot WAIT for that new Howie Mandel Candid Camera-Punk'd hybrid show, can you? It is going to be off the fucking hook. Whoa, sorry! Where did that come from? TV rots your brains, kids. Also, stay away from crack. A while ago I put up a little poll asking you, my trustworthy readers, to vote on what new cookbook I should buy with my hard-earned Amazon kickbacks referral fees. Hot Sour Salty Sweet initially looked like it was going to sweep, but The Splendid Table made a last minute surge to tie things up, leaving me with the ...
    Tagged: chinese, cookbooks, cooking, cuisine, food, NPR, pasta, pork
  • 12.04.08
    Thursday Night Smackdown: Whores de Orvees chicken, fish, sauces, smackdown | (13)
    You can't go wrong with the Barefoot Contessa, you just can't; and that Charlie Palmer can whip up a mean citrusy Asian sauce. Unfortunately, you can go hella wrong with bipolar disorder. You may have noticed a lack of recipe posts and an upswing in bullshitty posts, and it's because things are just weird and unstable around here. Y'all are awesome for getting into the non-foodie posts too, but don't think I haven't noticed and don't want things to get back to normal around here. Tonight is not the night that will happen, though: it's late, and actively working to ...
    Tagged: appetizers, asian, barfoot contessa, charlie palmer, chicken, cooking, cuisine, food, hors d'oeuvres, ina garten, japanese, peanut, shrimp, tempura, thai
  • 11.27.08
    Thanksgiving ‘08: Claque-Bas Édition Speciale smackdown | (4)
    We were going to be hosting Thanksgiving at our place this year, and believe me when I say that it would have been a Smackdown of epic proportions that would have taken weeks - nay, months - to properly write up.  But then, unbeknownst to us, more people were invited than our apartment can comfortably (or even uncomfortably) hold, and my brain started mis-firing again.  Ergo, we are in North Carolina where there are chefs and chefs-in-training bustling about the kitchen and I don't have to do anything but take pictures and write and eat.  And eat.  And eat. And I? ...
    Tagged: american, confit, cooking, cuisine, fat, food, french, oil, thanksgiving, turkey
  • 11.17.08
    Cheap Ass Monday: Which way to the bread line? cheap ass, eggs | (15)
    Thank god for Cheap Ass Monday, which I predict will soon become "Cheap Ass Every Damn Day" because the hourly rates of New York City psychiatrists are INSANE.  Nationally known expert, schmexpert; I'll need another drug just to counteract the shock of the bills.  I've totally gone down the wrong path in life: I should have become a psychiatrist.  Based on the hourly rate of the guy I'm seeing for a second opinion this Friday, I could see four patients a week and still be making hundreds more than I do in my current job.  It's too bad you have ...
    Tagged: canon, cooking, cuisine, eggs, food, potato, powershot, spain, spanish
  • 11.10.08
    Cheap Ass Monday: Roughage! Get your roughage here! cheap ass, pasta | (14)
    I know, the post title isn't very exciting or funny or clever. Don't blame me, blame the three and a half hour meeting I had this afternoon. Don't we go to work at non-profits so we don't have to sit through three and a half hour meetings? You pay me less, I wear comfy shoes to work and don't deal with meetings; that is the deal, no? Also this particular meeting was three and a half hours, did I mention that? It is, therefore, not surprising that when I got home I wanted something quick, warm ...
    Tagged: canon, cheese, cooking, cuisine, food, garlic, italian, pasta, powershot, ricotta, vegetables
  • 11.07.08
    Thursday Night Smackdown: Liver is just as offal as I thought organs, smackdown | (26)
    Yeah, I know, some people pronounce it "OH-ffal."  I don't.  It's punnier that way. Continue Reading...
    Tagged: canon, cook, cuisine, food, italian, lidia, liver, offal, powershot, roman, rome
  • 11.04.08
    Cheap Ass Monday: Brown Paper Packages Tied Up With String cheap ass, grains | (8)
    If you're here looking for a sub-$5 meal idea, I have to be up front with you and say that I actually have no idea how much this dinner costs. Maybe you can do it for $5, maybe it costs $100, I don't know. I just know that for me, it was cheap as free because it was made entirely of random food items that were sitting around and for which I had no plans. Food items that, I might add, comprise some of my all-time favorite edibles: farro, winter squash, onions, cheese and hazelnuts. A warm, comforting, filling ...
    Tagged: canon, cheese, cooking, cuisine, farro, food, grains, italian, powershot, risotto, squash
  • 11.01.08
    Thursday Night Smackdown: Kung! Pow! Chicken! Zap! chicken, smackdown | (9)
    Clearly, although my medications seem to be working and I'm a functional human being, things are not 100% normal, or else I would not be feeling the irrational hatred of Comcast, NetGear, BlueHost, Firefox, Apple, WordPress 2.5.1 and every other technological entity that has erected a barrier between me and this post: flames, flames on the side of my face. It's an unholy hatred, one that makes me want to throw a cast-iron skillet at the iMac. Which I will refrain from doing only for the skillet's sake, because it's seasoned really nicely and I'd hate to have to ...
    Tagged: canon, chicken, chile, chinatown, chinese, cooking, cuisine, food, kung pao, martin yan, noodles, powershot, takeout
  • 10.30.08
    Comcast can suck my dick. fuck it | (11)
    I can't get a fucking signal and I'm about to put my head through the wall. It was all I could do to get this page to load to post these three fucking words about why I can't get the Smackdown up tonight, let alone upload pictures and write more than two sentences. I was too wiped from work to smack down tonight, and then I got myself to do it ANYWAY, and now I can't even write the fucking ENTRY.  FUCKITY FUCK. Also I am cranky. I hate Comcast. In the meantime, why not read about some things that probably happened ...
    Tagged: canon powershot, chicken, china, chinese, cooking, cuisine, food, martin yan, powershot, tofu
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