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12.19.08Thursday Night Smackdown: That’s a big nooderMan, 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 ...
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12.12.08Thursday Night Smackdown: Put a little puddin’ in your popI think you all should know that I just saw a commercial for Pizza Hut's new product, the "PANnormous Pizza." Which leads me to believe that there is some kind of law of thermodynamics stating that as Apple devices grow ever smaller, franchise pizza products must grow proportionally larger.* None of that has anything to do with these warm lemon pudding cakes from Baking at Home with The Culinary Institute of America. Which apparently would rather have you pay $30,000 to attend their baking and pastry program than actually bake at home, because this recipe? Kind of sucked. *Exhibit B: The ...
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12.10.08Liveblogging Top Chef: Episode 5Tune in tonight as the cheftestants attempt to not destroy Gail's bridal shower. Way to get yourself a freebie there, Simmons. I'm sure everything will turn out fine. See you after the jump! Continue Reading...
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12.04.08Thursday Night Smackdown: Whores de OrveesYou 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 ...
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11.27.08Thanksgiving ‘08: Claque-Bas Édition SpecialeWe 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? ...
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11.21.08Thursday Night Smackdown: I’m a grown up and I do what I wantAnd that includes eating Sticky Toffee Pudding for dinner. Which I just did, and I could not possibly be less sorry. In fact, I'm feeling so magnanimous after eating it that I'm willing to overlook the ridiculous length of this book's title AND the fact that (as listed on Amazon) it has TWO COLONS: Desserts by the Yard: From Brooklyn to Beverly Hills: Recipes from the Sweetest Life Ever, by Sherry Yard (GET IT?), official pastry chef of Wolfgang Puck's Spago empire. I Wonder: Are all the colons necessary?: A grammatical conundrum: That I can top: Suck on that. Wow, ...
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11.17.08Cheap Ass Monday: Which way to the bread line?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 ...
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11.15.08Smackhead, Revisited: You can’t rush reverse osmosisYes, I know I said I was going to make this chicken on Friday night. But Friday nights I'm usually too beat to deal with all the cooking and photographing and writing Claudia's comment in the post postponing this shamed me into giving the chicken another day to salt, EVEN THOUGH the cookbook itself said "one to three days", not "one day is completely unacceptable and offensive why would you even think such a thing." Thus, tonight found me eating The Zuni Cafe Cookbook's roast chicken with some celery root-potato puree courtesy of Bittman (there's a tenth anniversary edition, it's red ...
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11.10.08Cheap Ass Monday: Roughage! Get your roughage here!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 ...
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11.07.08Thursday Night Smackdown: Liver is just as offal as I thoughtYeah, I know, some people pronounce it "OH-ffal." I don't. It's punnier that way. Continue Reading...
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- Cheap Ass Monday: Cuddle up with a big bowl of Cheerios
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