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• 06.04.09
  Thursday Night Smackdown: The second-best way to blog sauces, smackdown | (14)

  As previously established, the best way to food blog is to write about food and how you might have prepared it without actually producing any food.  The second best way, as it turns out, is to have your husband do the actual cooking while you sit on the couch with your new MacBook Pro - did I mention I got one of those? - and do a real-time play by play. Keep going... Related posts:Thursday Night Smackdown: “Life is like waiting for a yam.” Oh, Bobby Flay. You continue to flog your bold Southwestern... Smackdown: It’s Like a Party in Your Piehole ...

  Tagged: chiles, cooking, cuisine, food, mexican, rick bayless, salsa
  
• 05.13.09
  Not-Thursday Night Smackdown: When am I? fruit, grilling, pork | (8)

  There'd better be some gunshots or an explosion on Hell's Kitchen tomorrow night, or at least a high-speed motorcycle chase through the streets of Los Angeles with Gordon Ramsay and a helper monkey in a sidecar, because it is shocking how badly these Wednesday night Smackdowns are throwing off my week. Really, it's like I've become unmoored in space-time. For what? Thanklessness. And you know what the worst part is? I do it to myself. Keep going... Related posts:Tight Ass Tuesday: Millions of Peaches Millions of Peaches, Peaches for Me Millions of Peaches, Peaches... See you next ...

  Tagged: chipotle, cooking, food, fruit, grilling, katy sparks, peach, pork, salsa
  
• 09.22.08
  Cheap Ass Monday: Dear Lord, it BURNS cheap ass, chicken, condiments, grilling, leftovers, veg | (28)

  It's not that I don't like spicy foods, it's just my heat threshold is low. Very low. Kind of like an infant, or maybe a puppy. Brian, on the other hand, has been known to eat actual fire for shits and giggles; his favorite hot sauce is called "Sweet Death" and every bottle comes with a skull keychain. (Clearly, I'm not in their marketing demographic.) Keep going... Related posts:Tight Ass Tuesday: I Didn’t Need These Lips Anyway HEY YOU! Have you entered the Jamie Oliver giveaway yet?... Tight Ass Tuesday: In the style of OJ, Part II* Unless ...

  Tagged: cooking, cuisine, food, griling, grill, mexican, rick bayless, salad, salsa, vegetables
  
• 03.18.08
  tacogate ’08: tasty pico and inauthentic refried beans legumes, sauces, veg | (19)

  I know you're all watching American Idol right now. Why does Jason Castro force us to love him, with his dreadlocks and blue eyes and charming goofiness? Part Four in the series goes back to basics: pico de gallo and refried beans. Every time I have people over and bring out this pico there's a minor riot, which never ceases to amaze me - and sadden me, have we become so inured to Tostitos salsa? Will future generations know nothing except Pace Picante Sauce? Fresh pico only takes 5 ingredients and a little chopping. Do it for the ...

  Tagged: beans, canon, cooking, dips, food, salsa, vegetables
  

...as of late

• Smackdown: Pip Pip Cheerio!
• Liveblogging Top Chef DC: Episode 7
• ‘Tis the Season
• Awesome Shit That I Want Monday
• Wordless Weekend: Brownies
• Col du Tourmalet