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Eat your points!

Saturday, January 16, 2010

I’m doing Weight Watchers this year. Anybody who knows me knows that there’s probably a little more of me to love than there ought to be, and I could do with better eating habits anyway. This was spurred on by Christine joining a WW competition among photographers; I’m certain I’ll get the details wrong so [...]

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Mad Genius At Work

Friday, January 1, 2010

Wow. Aspic (or, “flavored gelatin” these days) has so much potential. Consider the following: An entire meal created from gelatin cubes. Mix five parts chicken gelatin cubes (chicken broth set with unflavored gelatin) and one part tarragon gelatin (plain gelatin with dried tarragon added when heating the water, then strained before it sets – not [...]

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Clearing the air

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

I’ve been in all-day workshops at work for the last copule of weeks. This has the effect of COMPLETELY knocking me off of my cooking rhythm, and I haven’t slowed down enough to get back on the wagon.
So, while I was preparing the cure for Homecured Bacon, Round 2 (a gorgeous 3.5lb pork belly from [...]

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I’m cured! I’m cured!

Friday, October 16, 2009

 
Let’s jump straight to the punchline – it was GOOD. Damn good. Very clean, unmasked pork flavor; not surprising since it was unsmoked and the cure didn’t have much in the way of flavorings added, but still outstanding in its simplicity. Because the pork isn’t injected with a wet cure, it isn’t waterlogged, [...]

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Why does nobody cook? A cartoon triptych

Sunday, September 13, 2009

I drew these up in the wake of online discussions about why “nobody cooks anymore”. A few disclaimers at the end.
 
First, I must apologize for a simple French goof; the caption on the first picture should read, “Ceçi n’est pas un poulet”, not “une poulet”. I couldn’t cleanly edit my gaffe out of the [...]

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