Monkey Monday: thoughts on a theme, and more. 30 March 2009 8:55 am
Posted by Tracy in : cooking,geekery,Harold McGee,monkeys,pasta,pictures,random , trackbackFirst things first: last week, I made Harold McGee’s One-Pan Pasta With Garlic and Oil, and it worked:
Readers, I put raw noodles into cold water — and way less water than the recipe/back of the box standard — and they came out. Yes, the texture was a little different than the pasta I’m used to, but boy monkeys is this trick going to save us a lot of white gas on future camping trips! Coming up later this week: more pictures and comments on the experiment.
Along those same lines, I continue to enjoy Rachel Laudan‘s blogging on fuel, water, and pasta, which led to a great post on fire, water, and salt.
Speaking of cooking fuel and efficient resource usage, this coming Wednesday, April 1, is the deadline for voting on the Financial Times / Forum for the Future Climate Change Challenge and I for one think the Kyoto Box solar stove is a super-cool idea, not just because of the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions but also because of all the potential energy saved — human energy and time spent collecting firewood, that is. So go read about cool inventions, and vote for your favorite, even if it isn’t the shiny, shiny stove.
Also on my mind this week: a different set of pasta pictures, supermarket sensory overload, and my ratty oven mitts:
Stay tuned!
Finally, in case the oven mitts didn’t lighten things up enough after all the save-the-world-from-global-climate-change, here’s a bit of funny-sad proof that seagulls are the enemy. (Thanks, Jamie!)
