Almond Butter and Mint Jelly Brûlée
Posted on November 30, 2006 - Filed Under food and drink | Leave a Comment
My occasionally whimsical notions of what could possibly be quite tasty have led me to invent bizarre dishes with idiotic names. Vivid memories of the meek-then-monstrous Apple Faddle and the palate-punishing Orange Crüelly bear up the truth of this. Tonight, after a rather slow night at the restaurant, another wild hair wiggled in my brain [...]
Read More..>>Late November Griddlecakes
Posted on November 26, 2006 - Filed Under food and drink | 2 Comments
Through some miracle of Sweet Providence, I have emerged from the bewildering commotion of Thanksgiving proceedings relatively unscathed. No emotional contusions were suffered, thankfully, although I was attacked variously by a frozen prawn, an industrial dish rack and, at a friendly game of poker with the gents from work, a welterweight dog named Buddy who [...]
Read More..>>Carnival of Crapulence
Posted on November 23, 2006 - Filed Under food and drink | 3 Comments
It’s Thanksgiving in America. It’s a day on which we give thanks for the blessings of family, friends and food. Technically, Thanksgiving is a holiday. Most of us have the day off work and do little else but eat and sink into a languid stupefaction. For this reason, it is perhaps the most American of [...]
Read More..>>The Tart O’ The Bog
Posted on November 21, 2006 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 3 Comments
When I decided that I did not, after all, feel compelled to make fresh cranberry and tangerine relish, I made fresh cranberry and tangerine juice instead. It’s quite excellent to be reunited with my juicer; I’ve missed her so. The insistent centrifugal whir of her thousand tiny steel teeth stirs a Pavlovian response in my [...]
Read More..>>Squid Tangle
Posted on November 20, 2006 - Filed Under food and drink | 1 Comment
I love cooking for friends, especially when they invite me to come over and mess up their kitchen instead of my own. Almost as sure as the nose on the back of my neck, if I cook dinner at someone else’s house, I don’t even have to think about cleaning up after myself. That’s why [...]
Read More..>>Did You Guess The Fish?
Posted on November 18, 2006 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Of the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of responses to my ichthyological quiz, not one contained the correct answer. This is hardly shocking. The species is more commonly encountered as a filet, either on a plate or sealed and frozen in plastic. I’m not a big fan of food that comes to the kitchen in [...]
Read More..>>Sea Biscuits
Posted on November 12, 2006 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Cooking and eating are, for me, two very distinctly seperate pleasures. Queerly enough, the detached tranquility that creativity in the kitchen confers upon me is infrequently accompanied by a desire to eat what has been created. In my little world, the inspiration to cook usually begins with hunger (or, at least the realization that I [...]
Read More..>>Guess the Fish
Posted on November 10, 2006 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
The marine creature depicted in the image (at nearly actual size) was purchased in Missouri, but she’s originally from China. She’s as common as salmon on American menus these days. Can you guess the fish?
Read More..>>My Other Food Site
Posted on November 1, 2006 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
If you’re tired of waiting for me to write another 500 words but enjoy the food photography, I encourage you to visit Articles of Mastication, where I’m publishing images far more frequently than I’m publishing articles at this site. I’ll be cutting loose with my cooking repertoire, going a little more insane with experimentation and [...]
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