Recipe: Tomato-Dill Soup With Roasted Garlic 21 February 2007 10:08 pm
Posted by Tracy in : soup, vegan, sundance, recipes, vegetarian, cooking , add a commentAs much as I like “It’s not just for eating anymore,” sometimes I want to invent a new subtitle for TracyFood about how really, people just read it for the recipes.
Whenever I started a prep shift at Sundance with the news that we were out of a soup out front, this recipe came to the rescue. I could go from zero to soup ready to serve in under an hour — with time to make a crappy sign like the one above, and more than 20 quarts of backup soup to spare. (more…)
Ceci n’est pas une recette aux crèpes. 20 February 2007 11:20 pm
Posted by Tracy in : work, breakfast, Morning Glory, Marion Nestle, eating, cooking , add a commentIt’s not a pancake recipe, either. Though really, if I had wanted to post a recipe for Pancake Day/Pancake Tuesday/Shrove Tuesday/Mardi Gras, I should’ve maybe gotten on that plan a little earlier. Like two weeks ago maybe, when I ate pancakes in some form for four days straight — or was it five? That was the weekend of Jen’s special crèpes at Morning Glory (in two words, entirely awesome). But I digress. If you’re interested in reading about some of my favorite pancake recipes — and there are many — please post a comment (or email me if you’re feeling shy).
Monkey Monday: My awesome food geek weekend 19 February 2007 2:49 am
Posted by Tracy in : news, school, WFFC, health, monkeys, fangirl, geekery, tea, sustainability, agriculture, people, friends, anthropology, eating, books, dessert, Marion Nestle, CSA, cooking , 1 comment so farA short version of the weekend, in numbered list form:
- Conferences attended and new journals started because the old one was full of notes
- Books purchased (Safe Food by Marion Nestle and Eat Here by Brian Halweil), and hours driven to and from Corvallis for the conference.
- Hours of tapes filled with recordings of talks, small sessions attended (i.e. not keynote or endnote), business cards collected (one from the Ecotrust guy promoting the Farmer-Chef Connection conferences, one from a very kind OSU geography professor, and one from an NYU food studies program graduate who now works for a Seattle market research firm that gathered the data I need for my book on what happens now that organic is mainstream), and Marion Nestle autographs collected like the fangirl I am.
- Fountain pen cartridges emptied while taking the aforementioned pages and pages of notes, and total tea bags consumed at Allison’s house and at the conference.
I could go on and on, but I think you’re getting the idea. (more…)
Happy Marion Nestle Appreciation Weekend! 16 February 2007 12:15 pm
Posted by Tracy in : school, geekery, fangirl, WFFC, sustainability, Marion Nestle, agriculture, books , 1 comment so farToday there’s not a lot a lot going on in my brain besides excitement about the fact that I’m going to see talks by Marion Nestle at OSU tonight and tomorrow at the Small Farms Conference. I realize that this makes me a giant geek, but what else is new? (more…)
Recipe: Sexy Mac and Cheese (or: Sexin’ It Up — continued.) 15 February 2007 1:26 pm
Posted by Tracy in : cheese, milk, advice, sundance, recipes, friends, eating, vegetarian, cooking , 2 commentsSo Wordpress is giving me some kind of no-comments-for-you guff on yesterday’s post but the intrepid Mikey Jo found a way to say:
I think you totally dodged the question here! Just because you’re not trying to get it on with someone you’re just getting to know, doesn’t mean that cooking for seduction purposes is off the table (so to speak).
For my own part, I’ll weigh in with my conviction that foods that often seem to get people’s motors running are foods that require work to get at, foods where you have to get your hands and mouth working together and things have to be tugged on or peeled open. I submit for your approval the examples of artichokes, roasted lamb ribs, and lobster. Not that I suggest combining all of those into one dish.
Of course, freshly made pasta is always sexy too, but for different reasons.
Oh Mike. I’m sorry. I thought yesterday’s entry was running on for too long, so I pulled a fast one and went all “to be continued…” which I know is a cheap trick but the good news is I’ve been having so much fun thinking about answers to Chiara’s question that posts about sexy food might turn into a series. The original “Sexin’ It Up” discussion began over two weeks ago, and yesterday’s post was based more or less entirely on the initial OMG MUST WRITE CHIARA stream of consciousness reply with which I responded to her email. She was patient and firm with me, and like you quite adamant that I quit dodging the question, and I quote:
In addition to the hippy woo woo of, like, “Knowing your crush” and “Following his or her lead” and “doing what you think would be nice for him or her” I want to see some HARDCORE VOODOO LOVE RECIPES, girl. That’s what I want: recipes that immediately draw one’s thoughts to hittin’ it.
Luckily, I had two weeks to ponder this very important question. Peter said that I should advise Chiara to go with fast food and confidence, but after much soul-searching I came up with something even hotter: homemade macaroni and cheese. Some of you already understand. Maybe you know me, in which case I think you’ll agree this dish is a pretty good representation of my complete and total lack of subtlety in matters of the heart and beyond. Or maybe you’ve experienced the awesomeness of the dish I am about to describe, which is even greater than that of Sundance hot buffet “mac and crack,” which itself is truly frightening in its power to enslave nonvegan hippies. (Our former housemate Allison once told one of her tutoring students that I knew the recipe for Sundance mac, and he immediately instructed her to relay a marriage proposal to me. The addiction is that strong. But I digress.) To the skeptics among my readers, I can only say: try this recipe before you mock me further. To my vegan readers, I can only apologize. Someday I will post a seductive dish without animal products for you, but today is not that day. (more…)
