Wednesday “whoops!” 17 September 2008 8:32 am
Posted by Tracy in : cheese,events,meta , add a commentNamely, where did Monday and Tuesday (and their respective posts) go? Alas, this week they are not to be. Instead of making excuses, I would like to direct everybody’s attention to La Fête du Fromage, or “the reason I finally got my act together and finished the Myzitrha post.” Mmm, cheese. Check it out!
In other news, I have been completely overrun with spam comments these past three or four days (more…)
Foto Friday: back to Nepal 12 September 2008 8:43 am
Posted by Tracy in : breakfast,eggs,nepal,people,pictures,potatoes,restaurants,tea,travel , add a commentI know, you thought I’d forgotten all about the Nepal picture project, and to be honest, for a while there, I thought I’d forgotten all about it, too. But New York’s American Museum of Natural History is food for Tracy nostalgia, and last week Peter and I had a visit from an out-of-town friend who provided me with all the excuse I needed to revisit the dinosaurs of my childhood. Hot diggety have those ever been updated! (Bear with me; I’ll bring this ramble back around to Nepal soon.) Not so very updated but still impressive were all the dioramas, which, as Abi (the aforementioned out-of-town friend) pointed out, are sort of a dying art form but which look very different once you think about all the work someone has to do to create and maintain them. I’d never thought about it that way before, but it made me consider those darkened halls of stuffed and mounted animals in a whole new (if dim) light. The displays of world peoples, however, were still just weird — even weirder now that I’ve seen more of the parts of the world that they purport to represent.
Which brings me to the Hall of Asian Peoples, where I could not find a single reference to Nepal. Lots about India, China, and even Tibet, to the point where I wondered when the displays had been created, and whether Nepal was on some kind of anthropological blacklist then. Next time I go back I’ll try to take notes on the exhibits and try to figure out where they fit on the Tibet vs. China timeline as I know it — they certainly seemed to represent a culture which I’ve learned think of as extremely endangered and better preserved on the Nepali side of the Himalayas. But I digress. The whole “no Nepal in the Hall of Asian Peoples” phenomenon was so weird that it made me want to get back to my long-neglected picture-posting project. So here I go. (more…)
Cheese party! Pasta with myzithra, browned butter, and sage 11 September 2008 9:48 am
Posted by Tracy in : cheese,cooking,pictures,vegetarian , 4 commentsThis post is my contribution to Loulou’s La Fête du Fromage event, the results of which will be posted Chez Loulou on Monday, September 15. I look forward to the roundup! (Loulou, I’m sorry I didn’t choose a French cheese this time around. I hope this fête becomes a monthly event so I can have another chance!)
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First things first: Apparently there is or once was a pasta dish with browned butter and myzithra on the menu at The Old Spaghetti Factory, but I’ve never had it so I can’t speak to its goodness (or lack thereof) relative to what I made here. Sorry about that. If anybody reading this is inspired to make my version to compare the two, I would of course be very interested in hearing your opinion. Write me!
Now, on with the cheese! (more…)
Wednesday whining, or an invitation to laugh at my misfortunes. 10 September 2008 3:10 pm
Posted by Tracy in : baking,kitchen gear,kitchen mishaps,meta,not even vegetarian,nyc,school,tea,whoops , 4 commentsDear readers:
I promise not to make this a regular feature. But I hope you’ll be able to laugh at my more ridiculous complaints, and that in time I’ll be able to go back and reread these and see the humor in them, too. So, here’s what I’ve got today:
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Whine the First: I failed at making no-knead bread yesterday, for a variety of reasons. The trouble started when (more…)
Ask TracyFood: about my granola 9 September 2008 10:10 am
Posted by Tracy in : advice,baking,breakfast,cooking,health,ingredients,Morning Glory,restaurants , add a commentSo a few weeks ago, I got an email:
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Hi, Tracy.
I heard that Padnah’s Pit BBQ is now serving Tracy’s Granola.
First, is this your granola?
If so, is it gluten free? (i.e. no wheat products, rye or barley … and are the oats from a dedicated, wheat-free source, such as Bob’s Red Mill?)
Many of us are gluten intolerant or have full-blown Celiac disease, and most granola uses oats that share process facilities with wheat flour manufacturing, so every grain of oats has a small amount of flour on it, making it dangerous.
If you’re the one making this granola people are raving about and you have not been processing it with gluten free ingredients, your market would increase HUGELY if you began doing so and labeled the packaging with “GLUTEN FREE”.
I appreciate your time and hope to hear from you …. I miss granola!
Sincerely,
Carolyn
Portland, OR
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Here’s what I wrote back: (more…)
