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Monkey (bread) Wednesday! 10 February 2010 8:35 pm

Posted by Tracy in : bread, cooking, dessert, eating, fun, meta, monkeys, photos, pictures, recipes , Comments

Update, 8:45 PM: I just realized that this is my 500th TracyFood post. Congratulations to me, even if this is kind of a silly quick one.

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So last month I put out a call to Facebook and Twitter asking what kind of monkey bread to make (with this article’s recipes in mind): buttery plain, garlic-herb, and cinnamon walnut. In the end the voters wanted garlic-herb, but my sweet tooth won the day, and I have pictures to prove it. (Garlic-herb lovers, scroll all the way down for your favorite, which I made a few weeks later.)

Check that beauty out.

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I may have created monsters last night, readers. 9 February 2010 11:49 am

Posted by Tracy in : cooking, eating, fun, geekery, history, photos, pictures, potatoes, random, reading, school, silly, writing , Comments

One is the paper due in my industrial food class tomorrow, which is currently in very drafty form, full of rambles like:

…Hotchkiss comes in, pretending that change is this magical uniform unstoppable force kind of thing, but fortunately we also have the MIT book reminding us that there was no shortage of immovable objects — and sometimes those immovable objects were people, even if sometimes those people were embodying social forces (*cough* PATRIARCHY *cough* I am looking at you, Professor Sedgwick, you jerkface you. *cough cough cough*)

Yeah, I’ve got some revising to do. But anything written is better than nothing, and editing things to make them suck less is way easier than writing, so hey, I’ll take what I got.

Last night’s other little monster, I am happy to report, was of the edible persuasion, and I got pictures.

I’m posting both because the real color is somewhere in between too dark without flash, and weirdly over-lit with. Also, because more fries!

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Foto Friday: Linguine Alfredo recipe, for Piett. 15 January 2010 11:08 pm

Posted by Tracy in : Holland, Netherlands, cheese, convenience, cooking, eating, eugene, family, hot mess, pasta, photos, pictures, random, recipes, restaurants, vegetarian, work , Comments

So I’m back from Holland and recovering from the trip, but still pretty freaking tired and nowhere near done uploading and organizing all the pictures I took. Today’s photo post was going to be all about flying fancy-style, but like I said, I haven’t quite got those pictures processed. Instead, I’m going to blog my dinner, which happens to relate back to my trip in more than just the “so tired, can’t get stuff organized” way. You see, on Tuesday night my brother Piett and I made a huge pasta dinner for my parents, my Oma, my aunt Ingrid, uncle Dako, their daughters Stéphanie and Claudia, and Stéphanie’s boyfriend Raymond (to be perfectly fair, Claud made her own food but I was still happy to have something that almost everyone could agree to eat). We cooked 1 1/2 kilos of spaghetti and three different sauces for people to mix and match to their own tastes: tomato-meat, tomato-vegetable sauce, and creamy pesto. Piett was an awesome sous-chef, and somewhere in the chatting over cooking we got to the topic of Alfredo sauce. My basic point was that it’s super-easy, and Piett said he’d like me to show him how to make it some time. While this post is not the video podcast recipe he suggested, it’s a step in that direction.

Linguine Alfredo: it’s what was for my dinner tonight.

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Monkey Monday: cooking and reading 4 January 2010 3:21 pm

Posted by Tracy in : cooking, hot mess, kitchen mishaps, monkeys, not even vegetarian, pasta, photos, pictures, pizza, random , Comments

As always, I am hopelessly behind on about a million things I want to read (at least more than a thousand in Google Reader alone, for instance) but I wanted to share a few fun things I’ve drifted past while going with the “too much information” flow. I will begin and end, however, with stuff I’ve cooked recently, because I am so not even a little bit modest about the awesomeness.

Stuff I’ve cooked recently

Check out this fabulous penne alla vodka we made with duck prosciutto (made by a Columbia Greenmarket vendor whose name I cannot remember). So delicious!

Also, I kinda dig the refracted view of Peter’s plate through the glass 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 , 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…)