Monkey Monday: Michael Jackson edition 13 July 2009 9:09 am
Posted by Tracy in : cheese,eating,events,fangirl,Holland,monkeys,news,random,travel,video,weird , add a commentI was eating popcorn when I finally and unexpectedly got emotional about Michael Jackson’s death. Not yucky microwave stuff, but real popcorn, homemade in a pan on the stove, with salt and pepper and nutritional yeast. That’s what makes this a food story. I’m posting it this Monkey Monday because it’s not going to get any more timely, and because it’s pretty freaking random (also, y’know, Bubbles). Anyway. Here goes.
When I got home from Holland last Thursday, (more…)
‘Toons for Tuesday 9 June 2009 9:57 pm
Posted by Tracy in : cheese,fangirl,funny,random,silly , 2 commentsSo I think it might be Fangirl Week here at TracyFood, in case yesterday’s little gush-fest didn’t make that abundantly clear (the David Byrne concert was ten thousand million billion kinds of awesome, by the way, and everybody who didn’t make it is hereby invited to envy me some more). Today I would like to celebrate some awesome food-related webcomics, both old and new. Here we go! (more…)
Recipe: Heretical Pasta alla Carbonara 10 December 2008 9:36 am
Posted by Tracy in : cheese,cooking,eggs,pasta,recipes,vegetarian , 1 comment so farWhen I originally posted this recipe to Everything2.com, it provoked at least one recipe response, outraged in tone, denouncing the blasphemers (all caps) and “vegestine” who dare to create a meatless version of this dish. Seriously. What? I mean, whatever. Today what stands out to me about the post in question is that I wrote my entry almost five years ago. Dang. Back then, I was inspired by hunger and the linguine carbonara recipe in Quick From Scratch Pasta by Food & Wine Books. Today, I share a slightly updated version of that recipe, still meatless and fabulous. (more…)
Foto Friday: a burro and cheese. 5 December 2008 7:07 pm
Posted by Tracy in : cheese,eating,nyc,pictures,restaurants,school , add a commentSo Peter and I got back from Saranac Lake on Saturday night, too tired to scrounge up any dinner (we had leftover turkey sandwiches and a bit of mystery Amtrak food on the train back down to NYC). On Sunday we realized that there wasn’t a lot of food in the apartment (besides the sweet potatoes left by my parents when they stopped to check on the cats), since why get groceries before our trip and let them go bad in the fridge while we were gone a few days, right? Right. We had a late brunch of sweet potato pancakes, as mentioned before, and Peter made a run for takeout later in the day. Behold the awesomeness:
That’s the vegetarian Burrito Gigante from El Toro Partido at 3431 Broadway, and it is on a full-size dinner plate. (more…)
Time-Lapsed Live Blogging! 4 December 2008 4:04 am
Posted by Tracy in : books,cheese,fangirl,geekery,liveblogging,meta,school , add a commentI seem to be all about the book release parties these days, which is all good by me. Twelve hours ago, I was at NYU’s Fales Library, home of a truly badass cookbook collection and site of a talk celebrating the publication of the new book by food and restaurant consultant Clark Wolf, American Cheeses: The Best Regional, Artisan, and Farmhouse Cheeses, Who Makes Them, and Where to Find Them. You can read a press release about the talk here, and my liveblogging begins…. now. (more…)
