December 2011
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Coping With Eating Normal Amounts of Sugar Again
There was a day last week in which I ate one butter cookie approximately every twenty minutes. All day. That kind of sugar consumption is simply not sustainable. Even if I could afford it, there are not enough Pilates classes in the world to excavate a waist out of that diet.
I enjoyed it while it lasted, but it is time to cut back to a normal human number of cookies. Or peppermint bark. Or...
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OH MY GOD YOU GUYS.
I have so much to tell you.
I mean, I don’t, exactly, except that in the last ten days or so, we packed all our belongings, moved, hired a painter who then painted my office, found an arborist and had them come to the house to give advice on trees to remove in the yard, had an electrician come in to fix a bunch of reverse polarity outlets, had Christmas, found out from the neighbors that...
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On Blogging, and Macarons at Pai Men Miyake
Writing a blog can be weird. There are so many things, food-related, that happen in a day, and only some of them easily translate into blog posts. Even by my standards, which are relatively low.* Things that are weird, or FANTASTIC, or TERRIBLE translate well to blog posts. But most of my life is not actually hugely weird, or FANTASTIC, or TERRIBLE. There’s a lot that’s in this middle...
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Things to Keep in Mind When Purchasing Cookbooks →
Hi guys. I forgot the most important thing in my whole review of the Bitters book, which is to buy it from a local bookstore (not sure why? Check out that link above). I have worked in bookstores, and I love bookstores, and I care deeply about having them around. And I also care deeply about having stores that pay taxes around. So.
I called Longfellow Books in Monument Square and they have some...
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Bitters: A Spirited History of a Classic Cure-All
A month (or more?) ago, Rabelais, the cooking and food bookstore in Portland, offered up a set of review copies of cookbooks to local bloggers.* I procrastinated until last weekend, when I finally went to dig through the somewhat picked-over selection of books.
I left with three books (the reward for waiting so long)— the Bluestem cookbook, Artisan Cheese Making at Home, and Bitters: A...
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Holiday Hippos
I like festive things. I like cookies that have been made as a festive gesture for a holiday. But I have learned through years of trial and error eating that the vast majority of festively-shaped and decorated Christmas cookies taste like too much sugar and cardboard. This is the season of eggnog. I can’t be wasting calories on a cookie whose greatest strength is as a craft project for...
The America’s Test Kitchen tumblr has started posting cooking tips of the day. So servicey! As someone who rarely fries things, and is thus unfamiliar in the way of the fry, I found this one is really useful.
americastestkitchen:
Cooking Tip of the Day: Frying oil can be reused. Filter the oil with a fine mesh stainer and refrigerate. Oil used to fry protein should not be reused.
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The Adventures in Cooking Tag Just Got Real
Just in time for Christmas, we have a whole ton of dead antlered woodland animal in our freezer.*
* It’s moose. When you get it, it comes with your new I Live In Maine For Reals badge and membership card.
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What to Eat When You're: Angry
Salami.
Get out your knife and get out your salami and cut yourself a disk. Do not peel the plastic off, just slice through that shit. Oh, you’ll dull your knives? Fuck that noise. They can’t keep you down! You can make up for dull knives with sheer fury. You’re going to have another slice of salami, dammit.
Keep eating until you’re a. No longer angry at that dude that...