Once, when Jo and I were contemplating the academic life, our adviser told us tales of his days as a starving student in London, wandering from library to library, speaking to no human being beside his local bartender and the occasional hobo, and surviving, as had his forebearers the early-medieval desert hermit, on boiled lentils [...]
Posts from ‘March, 2009’
Ass ass ass.
Once upon a time, there was a pig. And that pig done growed up all fatty and delicious on the inside. Did you know that farm grown pigs have to live in hermetically sealed pig pens now? They cannot romp around in the mud and get saved by charmingly literate spiders or anything. Nothing can [...]
First post, three things
Spinach salad, apple-thyme marinade for pork, and homemade applesauce.
Salads with sauted things are the best salads.
The caponata from here (a friend recently got Giada de Laurentiis’s cookbook and it was a worthwhile investment in terms of deliciousness) – ingredients I didn’t have on hand (capers, celery) + a bed of arugula with a little olive oil and some crumbled feta = lunch. The next day I made the leftover caponata [...]
Dear Coastal Flats
I love you. I love your delicious seafood which is not the best, but flavorful and warm, like food that you yourself could make, but don’t want to right just now. You are a little expensive, but otherwise the essence of a great comfort food restaurant. I want to express my deepest gratitude for not abandoning [...]
On ramekins and casseroles
As some of you may know from twitter, I recently purchased ramekins from Amazon, only to discover upon their arriving that they are “not open flame or broiler safe.” Since approximately 99% of my justification for buying ramekins was to make crèmes brûlées* every day (and die of a heart attack at 24), this was [...]
Recent bird-related sandwiches I have eaten
I am having trouble coming up with an intro to this post, so screw the formalities. Here are some places I ate at this week past! Gregoire Our apartment is conveniently close to Berkeley’s “Gourmet Ghetto,” where places like Chez Panisse (the one-star-in-Michelin birthplace of “California cuisine”) and the Cheese Board Collective (delicious communist pizza) [...]
A Hint of Class
Thanks to Gloria, Kim and Karen, I had a 40 dollar gift certificate to Crate and Barrel. Thanks to the tea party, I had a ravenous need for tea. (One day they’ll make that movie: “NEED FOR TEA: HYPER-INFUSED. You’re in too deep if you’re not steeped.”) So I combined the supply and the [...]
Orange-Ricotta Pancakes
These sounded tasty to me when I saw them on a labmate’s del.icio.us. I love fruit-infused anything. The original recipe can be found at http://www.marthastewart.com/recipe/orange-ricotta-pancakes, but I am reproducing it here for added commentary. The proportions here serve around three people, depending on appetite. Ingredients: 1 3/4 cups (15 ounces) part-skim ricotta cheese 1/3 cup [...]