Foto Friday: Vermont vacation touring (and tasting) highlights 9 January 2009 9:54 am
Posted by Tracy in : geekery,pictures,taste test,travel , 1 comment so farOn Saturday, 20 January 2008, Peter and I took the Amtrak Ethan Allen up to the end of the line in Rutland, VT, to visit my brother Piett. The kitties did their best to keep us home with their cuteness:
but we managed to escape. We got into the Land of Opportunity on Saturday night, had pizza and beer before bed (how can sitting still on a train be so fricken tiring?), then a nice lazy Sunday that concluded with dinner at Little Harry’s, where I enjoyed the hell out of the striped bass in green curry sauce with lots of vegetables. Also, Switchback Ale? Good stuff. And the best TracyFood story of this trip to Vermont is also beer-related: on Monday, December 22 we visited Long Trail Brewery, in Bridgewater Commons. (more…)
Recipe: Coconut-banana buttermilk pancakes 8 January 2009 12:39 pm
Posted by Tracy in : breakfast,cooking,Morning Glory,pictures,vegetarian , 5 comments
These pancakes are dressed up like a breakfast special we ran at Morning Glory back in late March, early April last year. (Hilariously enough, in that post I also wrote that I felt like I’d entered the Nepal photo captioning homestretch. Good thing it was April Fools’ Day, I guess.) My recipe is based on “Light and Fluffy Pancakes” from The New Best Recipe
Good cat. Anyway, on with the recipe. (more…)
CancerFood, part 2: you need Christine’s wisdoms bad. 7 January 2009 7:51 am
Posted by Tracy in : advice,eating,friends,guest post,health,interviews,nutrition , add a commentSo last month my stupendously colossal badass friend Christine helped me write the first of a series of posts about food and chemotherapy. We started out with the basics: what her experience of chemo has been like, taking a holistic view of its mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual effects. Today we’ve got some more food-specific discussion to share, with a few chimings-in by Christine’s favorite Englishman, Kevin. Here goes…. (more…)
Tea for Tuesday: homemade chai (in pictures!) 6 January 2009 9:40 am
Posted by Tracy in : cooking,pictures,recipes,tea , 2 commentsIf you’ve only ever had chai in coffee shops or made it from a powder or “just add milk” mix (like most restaurants, I hasten to add), you’re in for a treat. I love chai, but it’s often excessively sweetened, and never more so than in ready-made form. The good news is that when you make your own with nothing fancier than tea and spices, you get to dial your own doses of sugar and caffeine, and it’s fun and easy, too!
So. Maybe you remember this picture from my post about cooking an Indian-style feast for Peter’s family at Xmas, or maybe you don’t.
It’s Peter putting the finishing touches on a pot of home-brewed chai, which along with several delicious beers rounded out the beverage offerings for our meal. (I’m not sure what I’m doing there over on the left, but I’m sure it’s very productive.) He’s adding milk but not sugar — again, one of the great things about homemade chai is being able to sweeten it to taste. (more…)
Monkey Monday: Burger King is weird 5 January 2009 2:13 pm
Posted by Tracy in : consumerism,food snobbery,news,random,restaurants,silly,weird , 2 commentsFull disclosure: I have never been a fan of Burger King. Even when I ate fast food burgers, theirs were my least favorite, and not just because BK, like McDonalds, does not offer mayonnaise as a condiment — a deadly insult to my taste in fries, which once caused Moon Monkey housemate Penny to tell me “Sometimes you’re so Dutch it hurts.” (Need mayo with your fast food fries? Wendy’s and Roy Rogers both provide. I’m just sayin’.) But: back to burgers, and my dislike of Burger King’s in particular (in case you were wondering, there’s a point to this diatribe: I want to write about a few weird BK advertising campaigns, so I thought I should make my prejudices clear ahead of time).
Here is the reason for my beef with Burger King burgers (ha, ha, pun intended), above and beyond similar-ish offerings at other places: in pursuit of the dubious goal of making fast food crappiness taste “flame broiled,” BK does something to their mystery meat patties that makes them taste like smoke, which I hate. To me, smoke tastes like failure. (more…)
