Archive for July, 2007
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Monday, July 30th, 2007…just so I can order this cake for my next birthday.
The cake comes in chocolate, fruit, lemon, sponge, and — wait for it! — toffee. Not just toffee, a “[l]ovely toffee cake with real fudge bits all layered with caramel ganache.”
Toffee TARDIS. My love of food and nerdiness combine at last!
In other news, I’m working […]
101 Simple Meals: #27
Sunday, July 29th, 2007Description: “Egg in a hole, glorified: Tear a hole in a piece of bread and fry in butter. Crack an egg into the hole. Deglaze pan with a little sherry vinegar mixed with water, and more butter; pour over egg.”
Notes: Almost every time I stayed overnight at her house, my Nana would make me “an […]
A confession:
Saturday, July 28th, 2007I have never, to my knowledge, actually eaten a fresh fig.
So, to remedy that — and to make #29 on the list — I bought some of these:
Now I have a whole freakin’ quart of them. Suggestions for the rest?
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A review and a question.
Thursday, July 26th, 2007I’ve never really liked honey.
I’ve always felt it was okay for certain situations — in tea when you’re sick, mostly. So, when I ran out recently, I wasn’t in any great rush to buy more, seeing as I’m not due to get a cold for another couple months at least.
Still, when I saw […]
101 Simple Meals: #14 (sort of)
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007Last night, I cooked #14 from Summer Express: 101 Simple Meals Ready in 10 Minutes or Less.
Description: “Put a few slices of chopped prosciutto in a skillet with olive oil, a couple of cloves of crushed garlic and a bit of butter; a minute later, toss in about half a cup bread crumbs and red […]
I am a marketing guy’s dream.
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007Remember when you’d get a “Mystery Flavor” Dum Dum lollipop in your Halloween candy? And, as you’d eat it, you’d think apple? or cream soda? maybe cherry?
And now, the snack food equivalent of that lollipop:
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But I don’t!
Friday, July 20th, 2007I just noticed this blog is currently the top Google result for: i hate padma.
I don’t hate Padma! In fact, I rather like her. I even like her big weird scar that I never noticed until last week and now I can’t stop looking at.
That Gail, though…? Her, I could do without.
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101 Simple Meals: #25
Friday, July 20th, 2007I’ve decided to go through Summer Express: 101 Simple Meals Ready in 10 Minutes or Less and make as many of them as possible.
Here’s the first one I tried, #25.
Description: “Upscale tuna salad: good canned tuna (packed in olive oil), capers, dill or parsley, lemon juice but no mayo. Use to stuff a tomato […]
Top Chef: Week 5
Thursday, July 19th, 2007I gotta cut right to chase on this one…
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My life has found a new purpose…
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007…to cook all 101 meals listed in today’s NYTimes article from “The Minimalist” Mark Bittman — Summer Express: 101 Simple Meals Ready in 10 Minutes or Less.
Okay, now that I look at it, maybe I’ll cook 90-ish of these meals.
I’m not going to cook a lobster (#12), because picking the scraps of meat out […]
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