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Wild Rice with Butternut Squash, Leeks and Corn. I’m...

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:13:15 -0500

Wild Rice with Butternut Squash, Leeks and Corn. I’m trying this new thing where I use stuff I already have in my pantry/fridge before heading out to the grocery store. It’s a revelation.

Chocolate cupcakes for Eleanor’s birthday. Topped with...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:35:52 -0500

Chocolate cupcakes for Eleanor’s birthday. Topped with cinnamon cream cheese frosting. I’ve made this as a cake before, as the original recipe indicates. For cupcakes, exactly 12 minutes in the oven will do the job.

chriseats: Holy Buckets! This is supposedly the dinner receipt...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:46:31 -0500

chriseats:

Holy Buckets! This is supposedly the dinner receipt from Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich. At the bottom there you’ll see the number $47221.09. For some perspective, that’s about twice as much money as I’ll make this year.

Holy

urbanfoodie: Food To Do List: Soondubu Jjigae Friends know that...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:11:00 -0500

urbanfoodie:

Food To Do List: Soondubu Jjigae

Friends know that I have a mild obsession with Korean food. One late night in college, my friend Christine introduced me to Korean food, soondubu to be exact, and I was hooked. It became my go-to at every Korean restaurant I went to. I was ecstatic to see entire restaurants devoted to soondubu in California! Why the obsession over this tofu stew? In addition to my love of all things soup, this stew hits all the right spots. At once aggressive in its bubbling spiciness, yet comforting with the silky texture of the tofu and the creamy layer added by a raw egg. I love a good thick soondubu eaten with plump short grain rice. You’d think with my obsession, I would have tried to make this from scratch. But I have always found Korean home cooking to be intimidating, so I use a lot of cheats and instants. When I saw this recipe on Serious Eats for making soondubu jjigae from scratch, I had blog it to remind me to make this at some point in the cold, Minnesota days ahead.

Hungry. I have to pick up one of these dol-sots (“stone bowls”). Recently, I’ve been spending a lot of time on this website that’s great for Korean cooking:

http://www.maangchi.com/

Check it out. Issss pretty good.

"And it’s surely not a stocking stuffer for the aspiring 12-year-old chef: There are 40-plus..."

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:27:00 -0400

“And it’s surely not a stocking stuffer for the aspiring 12-year-old chef: There are 40-plus F-Bombs dropped between its covers (counting them started to feel perverse at a certain point). Tipper Gore would have slapped a black-and-white sticker on the cover if it had come out in the 1980s.”

- [Tasting Table, re: the Momofuku cooky-booky]

copycats: “Silver Lining” - Ben Gibbardoriginally by Rilo...

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:25:19 -0400

copycats:

“Silver Lining” - Ben Gibbard
originally by Rilo Kiley
(posted by sometimesagreatnotion)

Recorded Sept 10th 2007, at the Fillmore Auditorium in Denver.

"I’ve been on TV shows for years and no one said a word about it. All of a sudden everyone..."

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:24:36 -0400

“I’ve been on TV shows for years and no one said a word about it. All of a sudden everyone says, ‘Oh, it must be so great to be on a show from the sixties, because now you can be on TV.’ It’s strange how astounded people are that I have breasts.”

- Christina Hendricks

Two links for all you crazies who don't believe in flu shots.

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:38:47 -0400

highlow:

ONE: “There are about 2,400 miscarriages a day in the U.S.,” said Dr. Jay C. Butler, chief of the swine flu vaccine task force at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “You’ll see things that would have happened anyway. But the vaccine doesn’t cause miscarriages. It also doesn’t cause auto accidents, but they happen.”

TWO: The Opdykes did because “we wanted to get it out there how dangerous it can be,” Ms. Opdyke said.

(bonus) THREE: My dad said so and he has a little piece of paper from Stanford that says he probably knows more about these things than most of us.

(bonus) FOUR: This little lady says so and her business card reads Infection Control Epidemiologist.

Hello, Fall. Smoked Sausage, Butternut Squash and Wild Rice...

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:10:21 -0400

Hello, Fall. Smoked Sausage, Butternut Squash and Wild Rice Soup. Super yummy.

Thanks, Emeril.

moviesinframes: Romeo + Juliet, 1996 (dir. Baz Luhrmann) In...

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:35:26 -0400

moviesinframes:

Romeo + Juliet, 1996 (dir. Baz Luhrmann)

In 1996, I was 13 years old. AKA in hard-core adolescence. ‘Nuff said.

#3...

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:49:34 -0400

Mexican Chicken Soup, Ina Garten’s recipe. Very tasty. I cut the recipe in half, and it still made a ton of soup that I ate for days while I was sick last week.

Lesson: Rotisserie chickens are a blessing that is not to be underappreciated.

2. Malaysian Chicken Pizza on Whole Wheat Crust, recipe also...

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:45:55 -0400

2. Malaysian Chicken Pizza on Whole Wheat Crust, recipe also from Cooking Light. I have to remember this one for those nights before I do my long training runs and I’m sick of eating pasta.

HA! Just kidding, let’s be real, I’m never sick of pasta.

1 rotisserie chicken, 3 ways: 1. Curry chicken salad with apples...

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:43:14 -0400

1 rotisserie chicken, 3 ways:

1. Curry chicken salad with apples and celery. Recipe from Cooking Light, which I’m really loving lately.

Sometimes, a chart just isn't necessary.

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:55:30 -0400

[H1N1 in NYC]

If 4 out of 5 categories are 0%, what is the point of having this information displayed in a pie chart? Plus, a denominator of only 7 isolates? Come on, NYCDOH. How about 2 bullet points instead:

NYCDOH tested 7 isolates
All of them turned out to be H1N1

"Everything changed the day I understood that if I was to become a runner, I would have to run with..."

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:17:36 -0400

“Everything changed the day I understood that if I was to become a runner, I would have to run with the body I had.”

- John Bingham, The Courage to Start

ilovecharts: think4yourself: The GOP’s Palin Problem | The...

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:30:07 -0400

ilovecharts:

think4yourself:

The GOP’s Palin Problem | The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

Editor’s note: We, as a nation, need to stop Palin enabling. She is no longer a political force, but just a free agent, in a common “right wing” mold, out to get money. She thrives on her status as a lightening rod, much as do Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck, and crafts a persona to cash checks on our outrage. All three of these people deserve no coverage, and have been allowed to remain in character, laughing all the way to the bank, for too long. Save when their behavior endangers public safety (as Glenn Beck’s fear-mongering does now) they should be ignored. That in mind, ilovecharts will post nothing more about Palin, O’Reilly or Beck……..unless it is really funny.

I can’t be the only one who thinks that it looks like the Democrats chart is giving Palin the finger here.

Going to Costa Rica in Feb 2010. May have to stay here.

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:33:24 -0400

Going to Costa Rica in Feb 2010. May have to stay here.

Scallops with grilled polenta and roasted fennel, onions,...

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:12:46 -0400

Scallops with grilled polenta and roasted fennel, onions, zucchini, and tomatoes. It’s hard to see the polenta, but it’s there, in the middle. I don’t think I like roasting zucchini - it tasted kind of bitter. I do want to try making zucchini fries, though.

highlow: Pam & Jim have a wedding website. From the...

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:12:46 -0400

highlow:

Pam & Jim have a wedding website.

From the guestbook:

Pam, you are like a daughter to me, and Jim is like a son. I’m so proud that my son and daughter are to be wed! Tis a thing of beauty! Glory be!!!

-Michael Scott

Whenever the weather gets cold, I have a hankering for some...

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:03:48 -0400

Whenever the weather gets cold, I have a hankering for some dumplings. This year I got some help from Fa. I think we made close to 10 dozen. Guess which ones she made, and which ones I made.