Archive for September, 2010
Dal Handi.
Signs that a recipe is about to be epic include, but are not limited to, “nestle pot among hot coals, then take a few hot coals and place on top of lid. Cook for eight hours.” That proportion of extreme cooking is among the “throw alcohol on it, light on fire” and “sprinkle with sugar, [...]
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Who said feeding yourself was hard? Obviously the secret to decadent, fast meals is killer combinations and slow roasted tomatoes, the apparent jewel of the food kingdom. Have you ever seen a food more beautiful, more succulently sweet? There is no fairer slow-roasted food in the land. Quite honestly, slow roasted tomatoes drive one to [...]
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Summer Vegetable Succotash.
Geek-out. verb. (ge/ek/augh/t): To freak out and get extremely excited about seemingly normal things, especially in situations the would not necessitate euphoria and excitement from ordinary folk. Pertains to those things which may be considered weird and nerdy i.e. math and Cabbage Patch dolls. As it turns out, moving into a house with a new [...]
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And you thought I’d never go back to school. It’s finally happening. A mini road trip. (That’s right, I’m lying to myself. A MINI road trip? Yea, sure Nina. 2,129 miles and a total of about 34 hours is most definitely a casual drive. The kind of thing where one wakes up one day, makes [...]
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Crack Pie Ice Cream.
Is it obscene? Well, that really depends on where you stand in the battle of fat. Are you afraid of a little cream, a little butter? What about a little sugar then? In a pervious post I noted that, as a Crack Pie Round Two, I was going to dress the Crack Pie portion of [...]
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Dinner Time.
If you wonder why it is exactly that I seem to consume an inordinate amount of sugar, butter, and in general why my diet consists of coffee, ice cream, and chocolate, above is the reason why. Yes, seared scallops on a bed of celery root puree topped with microgreens dressed in a sherry vinagrette. Goat [...]
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Blueberry and Cream Cookies.
Blueberry and Cream Cookies, you taste like blueberry pie. Blueberry Pie mixed with something a little salty-sweet and malty. You’re chewy, crunchy, and toothsome. And fun to eat. So, so fun to eat. On my last trip to the Momofuku Milkbar, after cake and sugar cookie soft serve, I left with a bag of cookies [...]
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Chocolate-Malt Cake.
I’ve only had one interaction with the Momofuku Empire, or two, but they happened in the same day, within the relatively same window of time as each other, and my stomach was most definitely still digesting what I had eaten at the Noodle Bar when I wandered into the Milkbar. I mean, I was still [...]
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