Thursday, 19 April 2012
Food experiment #214589932. New frozen side from TJs, labeled “Creamy Polenta.”
Strangely, the polenta parts were frozen…squeeze-blips. Fortunately, when thawed according to directions—pretty tasty. And the expected gloppy texture.
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Really, my life has more diversity than today’s photo collection would imply.
What you can’t tell is that it has pancake photos from this morning (texture is better with whole eggs than just whites, I learned), and, as you can see, bubbles from the pasta boiling-pot from tonight.
Still, I concluded the bubbles have more…pizzaz.
Upon consideration, the rest of the day really doesn’t merit photos. (Whew.)
Wednesday, 11 April 2012
Shopping at WF for The Guru’s special dinner today, the seafood guy GAVE me the shrimp—what a kind gift! More sacred food!
Monday, 2 April 2012
…starting to process paperwork and take care of business. Today, that meant a trip downtown. I remember visiting the downtown business district only rarely. Today we lunched in a place I’d never have been in my youth, the legendary Kewpee Hamburg (sometimes Hamburgers, sometimes Kewpee’s). Mmmm…onion rings.
Tuesday, 27 March 2012
The promised frost did hit our piece of the planet earth in the wee hours, and I’ll be having translucent asparagus with lunch, since I didn’t get them picked yesterday. The color was just gorgeous as the sun shone through the stem. Little guys, like the one on the right, and pencil-thin specimens, like the one on the left, made it through okay.
Monday, 5 March 2012
I gotta give C credit; it was her idea to photograph this half-peeled pineapple (Ananas comosus) with the coalesced berries exposed.
Tuesday, 21 February 2012
We topped yesterday’s pimiento cheese (recipe now posted) by stopping at Sublime Doughnuts, over by Georgia Tech, this morning. As JCB noted, our doughnut treats (A-Town mocha for him; cinnamon roll for me) gave us the sugar rush that got us through a quick run at IKEA. We managed to avoid the “plastic crap” that often hops in your bag there, and got…other kinds of consumer product. Yeah, that sounds better….
Monday, 20 February 2012
This cries out for a recipe, and I promise, it’ll be forthcoming. For now, know that my (very small, statistically speaking) testing group preferred the smoked-hot-paprika-enhanced-version of pimiento cheese (of the two that I offered).
Friday, 3 February 2012
With a cloud layer coming in and a breeze kicking up off and on, I still managed to wear shorts and not get cold when I toured the park.
We focused our Friday Night menu on the vacuum-packaged pot roast from TJs (really delish), with the rest of the dishes assembled by us. Accompanied by broc/cauli combo, a nice tossed salad with radishes, white taters (boiled, steamy-hot). Oh, yum.
Meal leavened by Jon Stewart and John Hodgman, tivoed (essentially, but without Tivo) from…was it yesterday?
Monday, 30 January 2012
In which…
…I discover during a visit to a nearby clinic (accompanying a friend with a hurt–not broken—ankle who could not drive) that they take walk-ins in the morning and make appointments for the afternoon.
…I make an edamame dip pretty much following the recipe (NYT from http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/dining/edamame-dip-with-red-onion-and-sesame-oil-recipe.html) when I should have followed my instincts and adjusted the ingredients. (As in: boil edamame about 6 minutes, drain and stop cooking with ice water; less onion, maybe lime instead of lemon, that kind of thing…).
(For starters.)