Foto Friday: Happy 2010 edition! 1 January 2010 11:54 pm
Posted by Tracy in : breakfast,friends,nyc,oregon,photos,pictures,random , View CommentsHappy 2010, readers! I ended 2009 at my graduate schoolmate Ansley’s apartment, partying down with delicious brunchy treats:
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.
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 , View CommentsBecause 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 , View CommentsGo 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 , View CommentsFor 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…)
Breadman Ultimate, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Machine 3 September 2009 12:29 pm
Posted by Tracy in : baking,breakfast,consumerism,convenience,cooking,eating,friends,kitchen gear,pictures,recipes,thank you Thursday , View CommentsSo last week I posted a picture of some tomato sandwiches on homemade bread, and realized that there was more to their story. You see, that wasn’t just any homemade bread, but the fruit — I mean, product — of our bread machine, the Breadman Ultimate of this post’s title.
Breadman Ultimate is actually our second bread machine; its predecessor was not just our first bread machine but also the first in a series of appliances we’ve worn out through overuse — which you’ve got to admit is kind of badass awesome. That first bread machine was, no joke, Betty Crocker brand, I believe from a Fry’s Electronics in southern California. It was also the source of some controversy. (more…)
