I just found this and thought it should be passed on: Scanwiches
It’s a blog for scanned pictures of sandwiches, as the name would suggest… at first it’s a bit gross but then it becomes kind of fascinating!
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variations on a scone
For recent tea purposes I made two types of scone: ham and cheddar, and cranberry orange. I used the recipe Gloria last tried, with the following variations!
Ham and cheddar: Only 2 Tbs of sugar, because of the savory. N.b. the recipe only calls for 1/2 tsp of salt; this is not to be ignored – [...]
On lentils and holiness.
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 [...]
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 into [...]
The Pet Shop Boys’ “sweet” album cover
The Pet Shop Boys are coming out with a new album called, “Yes,” and the good folk at Popjustice decided to recreate their bright and minimal album cover. WITH SWEETS.
The moral of the story is to never underestimate the power of Smarties.