As y’all know, I rarely cook here in Beijing. Food is cheap, plentiful, and convenient, and so I just amuse myself by taking pictures of food. Delightful scorpions and seahorsies! Both easily available in kebab form here in Beijing! Okay, not so easily available, all the Chinese people I know draw the line at eating [...]
Posts from ‘March, 2009’
What I Did On Spring Break
I went to restaurants and cooked in exotic locales. Let me tell you some things. 1. FUCK YOU, GUATEMALA. For the love of God, don’t go to Guatemala anticipating a beautiful meal that tastes delicious. The local meats are no good, and cow doesn’t have ‘cuts’ so much as ‘parts that probably came off of [...]
Et Tu, Brute: How you too can kill Caesar.
I am a tragically addicted to Vapiano’s, a cooked-to-serve pasta place that offers overpriced but delicious food, exactly the way you like it. But it is very expensive, and although I love me some caesar salad, it shouldn’t cost 10 of my hard-earned dollars. Here’s the thing about salad. It should be so easy to [...]
Whole-wheat cranberry bread
So I had these amazing whole-wheat cranberry walnut rolls from Whole Foods yesterday. Then I had a rainy Sunday afternoon. Guess what happens next. Recipe from the back of the whole-wheat King Arthur Flour – I’d heard good reviews of it even though it does things I normally feel like are cheating, such as add [...]
Parmesan Chicken Nuggets
I stole this recipe from the back of the Safeway-brand parmesan cheese that we buy. Michael idly read it off the label and insisted that we make it, but it turned out to be quite tasty. The breading on the nuggets ends up kind of soft and crumbly, and not fried on like you see [...]
almond lemon biscotti
I’ve been craving cookies, but I don’t actually like them so much (too sweet); I just want something to go with coffee, and biscotti are generally not super rich, due to having no shortening usually. Melody recommended this recipe from joy of baking. I like my biscotti as plain as possible, so almond it was, [...]
Rosemary Bread sans Rosemary
From that fateful day when stinking bits of slime first crawled from the sea and shouted to the cold stars, “I am man!”, our greatest dread has always been the knowledge of our mortality. But tonight, we shall hurl the gauntlet of science into the frightful face of death itself. Tonight, we shall ascend into the heavens. We shall mock the earthquake. We shall command the thunders, and penetrate into the very womb of impervious nature herself. Tonight, we shall bake bread!
Peruvian Chicken
I found this lovely recipe from a local blogger at Andrea’s Recipes, and although I do not own a grill pan or grill, I wanted to try it! Yesterday I made a big batch of these for people before we watched the BSG finale, and results were conclusively good. I made the marinade the night [...]
Gemelli with Smoked Salmon and Creamy Vodka Sauce
This recipe from the Food Network (Emeril, to be exact) is one of my favorite pasta dishes because it actually is really easy to make but tastes like a restaurant dish. There’s quite a bit of chopping involved, but nothing is really difficult to chop. I made it yesterday for people and it turned [...]
Hot & Sour Soup
No more puns, only soup. *sigh*