I don’t understand why people who don’t cook 364 days a year suddenly think they can cook a large meal that involves roasting a whole animal. –Matt from Biwa
The man has a good point. I was in a fun position this year; I participated in another family’s traditions, in which the day’s schedule, alcohol list, [...]
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Cocktail Coquetry #1: The Vintage Slip
In line with continuing occasional series here at T&C, like Booze Crews and the now retired Sunday Supper Club, I’m introducing a new series, Cocktail Coquetry, in which I share new cocktail recipes developed by me or in my presence. Cocktails are relatively new to me, but local mixology-obsessed places like Teardrop Lounge, Clyde [...]
“Bisquits”
I have mentioned White Lily Flour a few times on this site, and though I’ve only worked with it a handful of times–one of my housemates in College had sorghum molasses and 20 lbs of White Lily shipped up from his relatives in Tennessee–it’s the incontrovertible Deity of Biscuit flour.
So it is with a heavy [...]
Proof of Killer Tomatoes
Ok, so my roommate vacillates between eating nothing but salad and nothing but junk. Below is photographic evidence of both:
The Taco Bell bag is recent, but those tomatoes are old. PURCHASED BEFORE THANKSGIVING 2006 OLD
the smaller one looks a bit shriveled and old, but the tomato in the foreground is unnatural. Let [...]
fuckups
(with apologies to anyone with work filtering)
Seriously, what else to call them? Kitchen mistakes–those moments where you’ve made something that just ain’t right. Sometimes it’s delicious but closely resembles what comes out of a person, or perhaps it looks great but causes your tongue and olfactory system to file a formal complaint with [...]
Transitional stew
Here in Portland, the clouds gather and the rain begins to fall, flexing our storm-drains to overflow, 1/8 of an inch at a time. I’m not giving up on summer quite yet, but there is a large contingent of masochistic portlanders who all start to get strangely happy–yes happy–when the grey mornings and damp [...]
Two birthdays
I had the good fortune to wish two friends of mine happy birthday this week (well, three, but one didn’t allow me to cook anything). The first occasion was a sort of haphazard surprise BBQ party–we all gathered at the birthday boy’s house and sort-of-surprised him. He’d have noticed the gathering peoples if [...]
Another adventure in avocado
First, the Ambien cookbook is hilarious.
CAN’T YOU SEE I’M WORKING HERE?
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I’m going ape-shit with avocados these days, enjoying every sliver of sunshine produce I can. Avocados really are one of my favorite things in the whole wide world.
This time around I was again playing with my meager pantry, but it was slightly better stocked [...]
Pensive Pasta
When I’m pensive, worried or stressed out, I often find myself in my kitchen, dazed and chopping for the sake of chopping. There is an element to cooking that I find amazingly cathartic, like the concerns of real life, like the vegetables on the board, are being deconstructed into perfect squares–bite size palatable chunks [...]
kohlrabi 2
Weeks ago I dumped some sliced kohlrabi into a brine in the hopes of creating something good out of something bad. It didn’t work. My tasty brine did not do much to the kohlrabi, and the damn stuff tasted like it did when fresh (meaning not much), except now covered in my tasty [...]