food

Kewl!

Quoted: wikiHow article about How to Blow the Shell off a Hard Boiled Egg.

My latest cooking from scratch endeavor!

Quoted: Making pasta from scratch is a little like being a mad scientist — there’s a lot of room for experimentation, you get to play with cool equipment, and you’re guaranteed to make a mess (which, of course, is half the fun).

Making some pasta puttanesca tonight (with pasta from scratch!) Can't wait...

Quoted: Food Network invites you to try this Pasta Puttanesca recipe from Rachael Ray.

Yay, it's that time of year again ... pumpkin season, the happiest season of all!

Quoted: No need to roast fresh pumpkin for this dish (although you certainly could); using canned unseasoned pumpkin puree is much quicker, and it works just fine. Like most lasagnes, this one is easier to cut if left to set for ten minutes or so before serving.

not an onion story

Quoted: Waste Of Good Pews: Kellogg's To Begin Lasering

My latest blog post...

Quoted: I know — you’re never supposed to say never, and there’s a chance I’ll eat my words. But this cooking from scratch experiment taught me about certain foods that I’ll probably always buy readymade, and other foods that I’ll *probably* never buy again. Strong words, eh?

My latest food blog post...

Quoted: During my 30 days of cooking from scratch, people kept telling me they could never do what I was doing. So I feel like I need to confess that this wasn’t exactly a piece of cake for me. There was more than one chocolate meltdown, and a few sushi cravings that almost turned violent.

The content is worth reading but the writing (by a University of Illinois grad student) is absolutely first-rate. It's so good, that I started re-reading the article, just to look for errors!

From the webzine: The Ethicurean

Quoted: (...) I truly believe that humane slaughter is important and possible, but, as I have been learning, here’s the truth about any slaughter: it is both morally difficult and really gross. (...) With a public unwilling to acknowledge the living nature of their food source, the meat industry has been free to institute practices that no compassionate person can countenance.

Creepy ...

Quoted: As I hurtled down the highway, a pair of golden arches crept over the horizon, and the proverbial lightbulb smacked me in the forehead.  To gauge the creep of cookie-cutter commercialism, there’s no better barometer than McDonald’s – ubiquitous fast food chain and inaugural megacorporate colonizer of small towns nationwide....So, I set out to determine the farthest point from a Micky Dee’s – in the lower 48 states, at least.  This endeavor required information, and the nice folks at AggData were kind enough to provide it to me: a complete list of all 13,000-or-so U.S. restaurants, in CSV format, geolocated for maximum convenience.  From there, a bit of software engineering gymnastics, and…...Behold, a visualization of the contiguous United States, colored by distance to the nearest domestic McDonald’s!