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Music to cook by. 4 September 2010 1:45 am

Posted by Tracy in : breakfast,cooking,eugene,friends,fun,Morning Glory,nyc,oregon,random,silly,vegan,vegetarian,writing , add a comment

This post is for the fabulous Chiara, who did one of those silly Facebook (I almost wrote LiveJournal) equivalents of a chain letter where you’re supposed to write down 15 albums in 15 minutes, albums that will stick with you forever, etc. As I started to respond, I arbitrarily tried to restrict myself to no more than one album by any given artist, or I would have gotten to Bowie and used up like six albums right there, and likewise with TMBG and Dar and Dan Bern… you get the idea. Also as I was writing I realized I was thinking in particular about music that is good to cook by, and also that it was making me want to write a TracyFood post on that subject for the first time in—urgh, I’m not even going to look. The point is: here is a list of albums which I have found kept me particularly excellent company in kitchens over the years, annotated where I wanted. Also, Chiara is awesome. (more…)

Foto Friday: Happy 2010 edition! 1 January 2010 11:54 pm

Posted by Tracy in : breakfast,friends,nyc,oregon,photos,pictures,random , 2 comments

Happy 2010, readers! I ended 2009 at my graduate schoolmate Ansley’s apartment, partying down with delicious brunchy treats:

Waffles!
Cornmeal waffles, which would later be garnished with Ansley’s awesome maple compound butter. I supplied the waffle iron, and have no idea what’s going on with my hair there.

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Monkey Monday: extra-rambly edition. 23 November 2009 10:21 am

Posted by Tracy in : baking,books,breakfast,cookies,cooking,fangirl,geekery,milk,monkeys,random,vegan , 3 comments

Because I expect everyone will have better things to do over the long weekend than read my blog, and because I have been unable to decide on a regular posting schedule for months now, which might mean not writing anything else postable this week, today’s post is extra-bonus long. There’s lots of Post-Punk Kitchen fangirling, odds and ends about stuff I cooked, upcoming events, and more. Here we go…

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Yay for book review comics! Here’s one for Vegan With a Vengeance. So cute! So awesome! And speaking of that book, I made Isa’s Tempeh Helper for dinner last night, and it was comfort food-alicious (bear in mind, however that I don’t think I’ve ever eaten Hamburger Helper in my life, so I have almost no frame of reference here). Because I had to cut some gnarly-looking bits off the tempeh, I made up the weight difference in cremini mushrooms, which made the end result taste more than a little like the Seitan-Portobello Stroganoff from VWaV, but that’s just another way of saying it was very tasty indeed. (more…)

Quick hit comics 6 October 2009 5:25 pm

Posted by Tracy in : breakfast,consumerism,fangirl,food snobbery,fun,geekery,reading,silly , 2 comments

Go go gadget short attention span:

My love of Cat and Girl continues unabated: “Value Menu” is one of my favorite comics in a long time.

I have Wikipedia to thank for reminding me of the Achewood strips about Jared the Subway ex-fat guy. (“Well, he doesn’t really make me feel good about food…” is quite the understatement and may become my new all-purpose description of nutrition scolds.) Also, is it bad that my brain automatically thought of “ex-gay” ministries after coming up with “ex-fat” as a descriptor for people who loudly advertise their weight loss? Somehow, I am loving the parallels just a little too much….

But onwards, to breakfast comics. (more…)

Gastro-culinary highlights of the long weekend. 23 September 2009 3:33 pm

Posted by Tracy in : breakfast,consumerism,cookies,dessert,eating,events,fish,food snobbery,not even vegetarian,nyc,restaurants,seasonality,summer,sundance,travel,vegetarian , 2 comments

For the purposes of this post, the long weekend ended about fifteen minutes ago, because I’m a big slacker. Peter and I got up unholy early on Friday morning for a visit to the not-yet-frozen north, by which I mean his parents’ cabin on Osgood Pond, which is in Paul Smiths, NY, outside Saranac Lake, not far past Lake Placid — and if you haven’t heard of any of those places, that’s okay: the whole point of this expedition was to hang out with friends on a nice mini-vacation in the middle of nowhere.

In my opinion, we succeeded mightily. There was paddling — both canoe and Adirondack guide boat — and relaxing in front of a wood-burning stove, both with and without games. Also there was tasty food. (more…)