Foto Friday: recipe revisionism EXPOSED! 11 November 2011 2:52 pm
Posted by Tracy in : America's Test Kitchen,baking,consumerism,cookies,diet stress is a health hazard,food snobbery,geekery,photos,pictures,random,recipes,seasonality , add a commentJust one picture today, readers, but it is a doozy! Check this out:
Oatmeal cookie recipe revisionism — EXPOSED!
Do you know what this means, readers? DO YOU? (more…)
Monkey Monday: cookies and random 29 March 2010 1:28 pm
Posted by Tracy in : baking,cookies,dessert,eating,friends,fun,monkeys,people,photos,pictures , 2 commentsSo first things first, big thanks are due to Sam, for bringing homemade Oreos to one of Greg’s dinner parties and saying stuff like “they’re super-easy!” and “just Google for ‘homemade Oreos’” because I did and the results were delicious:
Oh yes.
These are almost exactly the recipe at Smitten Kitchen, with the somewhat-less-sugar version of the cookie parts and a heaping teaspoon of instant coffee thrown in for extra bittersweet chocolatey goodness. The only drawback was (more…)
Monkey Monday Macaron Ride Report! 23 March 2010 1:26 pm
Posted by Tracy in : cookies,eating,fun,monkeys,nyc,photos,pictures,random,silly,travel , add a commentOk! Very quick summary:
Macaron Day NYC 2010: what I rode; here’s the interactive version.
For more details (and pictures), read on! (more…)
Friday Fun! 19 March 2010 7:18 pm
Posted by Tracy in : consumerism,cookies,dessert,eating,fun,nyc,random,silly , 3 commentsHello readers! I know, long time no nothing. Such are the ways of Spring Break (wooo!) even when the earlier part of this week was mostly spent hiding from positively Oregonian-winter weather, and I maybe could have been writing instead of just watching trash TV on Hulu. But no. Spring Break! Woooo!
Today, however, the weather was lovely, and I was positively energetic, which I proved by going on my first New York City bike ride of the season. How is this at all related to TracyFood? Well, I’ll tell you: I needed this bike ride as a test drive (so to speak) for a ridiculous plan.
You see, tomorrow is Macaron Day, and a bunch of NYC bakeries are giving away said delicious treats to celebrate (and do a little self-promotion, but hey: free treats!) And because I am ridiculous, and because the weather is just that lovely, I got it in my head that maybe I could ride my bike from bakery to bakery, collect macarons from all seventeen participating locations (and if I were indeed going to eat seven almond merengue sandwiches with delicious sweet filling, I would need the bike ride to prevent myself from spontaneously combusting on account of all that sugar. So here’s how I schemed. (more…)
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 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…)
