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• 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
  
• 08.29.08
  Thursday Night Smackdown: Hurry, man, before there’s still time. fish, pasta, smackdown | (12)

  When will smackdown get better?* It's sad, really, because any dinner was bound to be a let down after last night's tomatogasm. I'm still reeling a little, and I spent the whole day cornering co-workers and forcing them to listen to me monologue about tomatoes as they nodded politely (the co-workers, not the tomatoes). Still, this dinner, taken from The New Best Recipe, challenged another one of my food prejudices: pad Thai. It also made most of my block smell like fermented shrimp because I had all the windows open while I cooked, and for that I'm truly sorry. *I'm trying, ...

  Tagged: canon, cooking, cuisine, food, noodles, powershot, seafood, shrimp, thai, thailand
  

...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.