Comfort Food – Roast Pork

April 20, 2010

Roasted meats – the essential comfort food. Normally, when “pot roast” comes up, images are conjured of lightly seasoned beef, with some root vegetables, somewhere between cooked deliciously and dry-and-leathery. It’s such a simple food, it’s often overlooked as being too basic, too familiar, too trite to remain part of the home cook’s zeitgeist. (How [...]

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Anticipation (Chicken Fricassée)

April 5, 2010

Today is my 32nd birthday. Barring significant medical advancements or major catastrophe, I’ve only got one more power-of-two birthday left. I’ve seen 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, and now 32. I expect I’ll see 64, but I’m not holding my breath for 128. These are the things I think of in the wee hours of [...]

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Warming Up to Breakfast (Steel Cut Oats)

February 15, 2010

I’ll admit, I’ve never been a huge fan of breakfast. Growing up, breakfast was more often than not a bowl of cereal – I wasn’t a big egg fan, bacon was a rare treat, and most mornings nobody had time to prep a hot breakfast. (Aside: To think of all the bacon I could’ve eaten [...]

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Eat your points!

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

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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