March 2012
18 posts
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The Epic Live-Tweeting Of Last Night's Park Slope... →
This reminds me of the time that Mayor Fenty came to my building in DC to speak with residents and we had a long discussion with him about the length of the walk signal at the street light at the corner (crossing Connecticut Ave).
Except, obviously, this is better. And I didn’t have to be there.
February 2012
15 posts
“Mine is in my bed, and my wife sits on the mantle.”
– Nat Faxon on where he keeps the Oscar that he won Sunday night. (via washingtonpoststyle)
AH! It’s my cousin! Winning an Oscar and being amusing about it!
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Weekend Vegetable Soup
I was sitting around on Friday, resigned to having a leftovers dinner, when all of a sudden I thought, Fuck this shit. I am making a vegetable soup using the ingredients we have at home.
I don’t know why I don’t do this more often. It was fantastic. In addition:
1. I used up the cabbage that has been threatening to go bad in the crisper.
2. I didn’t have to go shopping for...
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Cooking Dinner: Change the Way You Read Recipes
A few years ago I started noticing a bunch of cooking books and articles exhorting me to stop cooking from recipes. It was no longer enough to cook, you had to cook freely! with improvisation! and not be one of those awfully uncool and un-free people who cook with recipes all the time.
Right, okay. This ended up not helping me cook without recipes, but instead making me feel uncool and repressed...
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Pistachio, Chocolate, and Apricot Cookie Hearts
I’ve typed and deleted and retyped the first line of this post maybe ten times. But no, I am going to own this. These are the best cookies I’ve ever made.
They’re based on this smitten kitchen slice-and-bake cookie recipe, which I made a few months ago, although in different flavors. In retrospect, I wish I had been more careful in writing down the ingredient amounts.
The...
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Ginger Carrots and Imaginary Reader
Somehow over the years that I’ve been doing this tumblr, I have developed an Imaginary Reader to whom I often find myself writing. Imaginary Reader is young person out there in the world, new to cooking, and looks to me for sage advice and recipes and reminiscences upon my youth.*
(It’s okay if you are an actual reader and don’t match my Imaginary Reader. I embrace you.)
That...
chattanoogafoodie asked: What's your favorite type of food?
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Horoscopes
From today’s horoscope:
Someone you care about becomes feisty. Let that person be.
Subject line of email that I received this morning:
I’m still mad that Bon Appetit was promoting going gluten-free in last month’s issue.
Which, obviously, let to a number of emails on the subject of things that irritate us in Bon Appetit, including, but not limited to: Maldon sea salt, the...
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Hot Pepper Jelly
At some point in my canning career, I might have thought of myself as person who preserves the bounty of locally grown foods at the height of their freshness while wearing attractive yet low-key jewelry and a simple apron. Faced with a cabinet of marmalade, dilly beans, cherry bourbon, and now hot pepper jelly*, however, it’s clear that my canning is basically about drinking and snack...
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Love Stinks: Valentine's Day Recommendations
Last year, our group of Portland food bloggers made restaurant recommendations for a Valentine’s Dinner first date in Portland (which, oh my Lord, do NOT go on a first date on Valentine’s Day). I told you all to cook your own damn romantic dinner, more or less. This year, the assignment is dinner advice for the single among us.*
Eating Out
Even though I have spent nearly a third of...