Monkey Monday: nothing says short attention span like pictures! 16 February 2009 5:55 pm
Posted by Tracy in : cooking,dessert,meta,monkeys,not even vegetarian,pictures,vegan,vegetarian , trackbackI can’t seem to concentrate long enough to write more than a paragraph today, readers. At first I thought it was the cuteness of the cats snuggled up on either side of me:
but that excuse couldn’t last forever, and my writing did not improve when the purring distractions went away. The good news is, I had a lot of pretty TracyFood pictures on my camera, and writing captions is fun and easy. First up is sticky toffee pudding:
If I had written a Valentine’s Day “HARDCORE VOODOO LOVE RECIPES” post this year, it probably would have been about this dessert. I should’ve taken its picture without the whipped cream, I guess, but look closely and you can see past all that delicious butterfat to, well, more delicious butterfat — rich, dense, date-filled cake bathed in luscious toffee sauce — and understand that it’s amazing I had the self control to pause long enough to take any pictures at all. It makes my eyes roll back in my head just thinking about it, really.
Of course, if I think about sticky toffee pudding for too long, I need something healthy to balance it out with. Like spinach maybe?
That’s lentils with spinach and ginger, like some faithful readers may recall from way back in the day.
Speaking of back in the day, it doesn’t get a lot more old-school than the subject of this next picture:
That’s an egg from Herb Kaplan’s girls on my toast there. I grew up across the street from Herb, whos chickens taught me the meaning of good, fresh eggs, a lesson for which I will forever be grateful. My mom sent me home with half a dozen Kaplan eggs after the soup party last Sunday, and they brightened up many a meal this past week. Yay!
Finally, a meal that did not need eggs for brightness:
That’s Tracy-style saag, with dal, rice with peas, and red lamb stew (rogan josh) all from Madhur Jaffrey’s Indian Cooking
And that’s all for today.
With hopes of better focus and articulateness tomorrow,
-Tracy
