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• 09.29.08
  International House of Cheap Ass Monday breakfast, cheap ass, fruit, sauces | (25)

  Alternate Title: I'll dutch your baby anytime, hot stuff.* *Because a dutch baby is a kind of big, fluffy baked pancake often filled with apples.  Not because I'm trying to come on to you.  Although if I knew you, I'm sure I TOTALLY would. Continue Reading...

  Tagged: apples, breakfast, brunch, canon, cooking, cuisine, food, fruit, pancakes, powershot, sauce
  
• 09.25.08
  Thursday Night Smackdown: Don’t do this unless you want your house to smell really good beverages, sauces | (15)

  You are cold-hearted poeple who enjoy reading about failure, so I was going to appease your horrifying bloodlust and go all Thomas Keller on your asses. On my ass. On someone's ass. Whatever, there was going to be food and probably horrifying failure. And ass. Lots and lots of ass. Continue Reading...

  Tagged: cooking, cuisine, food, french, sauce, wine
  
• 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
  
• 04.27.08
  Spring Lamb By Way of Italy By Way of My Ass dairy, lamb, pasta, sauces, veg | (28)

  My ass is due east of Suck On It, Tunisia. If I'm not cooking directly from a recipe or making one of my standby dishes, I'm trying to riff off someone else's ideas. I can poach a mean egg and I have a decent sense of what goes with what (e.g., bacon goes with everything), but I don't flatter myself that I'm particularly innovative or have some kind of culinary talentg. I have more of an all-around genius than a specific savant-like gift. Every once in a while, though, I make up a dish that seems pretty unique (at least ...

  Tagged: baking, canon, cooking, food, italian, italy, lamb, pasta, powershot, sauce, spring, vegetables
  
• 04.15.08
  Back to our regularly scheduled amateur food porn: Now with Hollandaise! eggs, sauces, veg | (29)

  Coming up at 11: When Asparagus Attacks Some days, work is relatively stress-free and I get home by 5, excited and ready to cook up a storm. The other 364 days a year, I don't. Unless each of my 6 readers starts loading this page 750,000 times a day each, I'll be keeping my day job and looking for more quick but interesting weeknight meals.* Some time ago, I declared the official foodie trend of Spring 2008 to be the poached egg. Today was a lovely spring day - sunny, brisk, daffodils in bloom, Target setting up shop on the ...

  Tagged: breakfast, canon, cooking, cuisine, dinner, food, french, powershot, sauce
  
• 04.06.08
  You can’t beat this meat with a stick: Part Deux beef, leftovers, pasta, sauces | (21)

  Thyme for dinner, everyone! (Ba-da dum!) Sometimes, life gives you extra Bolognese sauce. When that happens, I'm firmly of the mind that you should make lasagna Bolognese. You'll probably be tempted to invite some friends over for dinner when you do this, because one typically does not make a lasagna for two. I'm here to advise you that you might want to reconsider this; consider having your friends over on another night, a night when you're having something not quite so good and you won't mind having NO LEFTOVERS AT ALL because your friends LICKED the inside of the baking dish ...

  Tagged: canon, cooking, dinner, food, italian cooking, italy, meat, pasta, powershot, sauce
  
• 04.02.08
  You can’t beat this meat with a stick: Quick Heretical Bolognese pasta, sauces | (29)

  You know you want it, baby. Traditionally, Bolognese sauce is an all-day affair, which is why most people only make it on weekends if they make it at all. I reject that, because when I want a big pot of meat, I want it right fucking now. Also, because the recipe in The Silver Spoon, Italy's Joy of Cooking, doesn't have you simmer it all that long, and that book don't lie. This version veers even further into heterodoxy with the substitution of ground lamb for ground veal, and a pinch of cinnamon to play off the lamb and add ...

  Tagged: canon, cooking, dinner, food, italian food, italy, pasta, powershot, sauce
  

...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.