Help, I need a camera that doesn’t make the world blurry. I was impressed how this batch came out. Back to flying…
Posts under ‘Experiments’
First Food Failure, lovingly retold.
Scale of Fail: 1 million vs. 300 in Battle of Thermopylae, then getting pushed back into Persia by the fucking Athenians. So here’s my problem. When I make up recipes, I think things will be GREAT. They are not always great. I feel like I’ve got imagination, but terrible form. The form will come with [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
rosemary bread: an ongoing story
I am obsessed with bread. Slowly yet steadily, and with many lumpy first attempts, baking will yeild its secrets to me, and I will become the greatest baker in Japan create the bread of nationalism yes. The rosemary bread recipe I’ve used in the past is based off of this, but someday soon I hope [...]
Asian Food Bonanza!
Erren, maybe we could put in a category for recipe/experiment requests? If anyone has successfully made any of the following, I’d dearly love to see a recipe post about it: – Cold sesame noodles (like the dumpling place in Cville) – Asian oily rice – Scallion pancakes – Winter melon soup – There’s a daikon [...]