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Monkey Monday: random RSS recipes edition 21 July 2008 6:15 am

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I remembered what else I meant to post about on Saturday night! The wonderful randomness that my RSS feeds bring me, let me share them with you!

First, there was Warren Ellis on cooking steak (hint: “Man cook meat with fire.”) That was July 7. A day later, he clarified his position somewhat: (more…)

Phew! 2 July 2008 6:21 am

Posted by Tracy in : pictures, breakfast, work, Morning Glory, restaurants, news, cooking , 3 comments

On my way out the door to an opening shift, I realized again that yesterday was a doozy (doozie? no, that’s definitely not spelled right). I got to Morning Glory a little late, so I didn’t really get any of my prep chores started before opening time, and at 7:30 (yes, AM) the phone rang, and I was within arm’s reach:

“Are you guys open yet?”

— “We’re open 7:30 to 3:30 every day.”
“So can I order some food to go?”

Okay, I thought, so that’s how it’s going to be. (more…)

Monkey Monday: happy salad season! 30 June 2008 1:03 pm

Posted by Tracy in : salad, nutrition, seasonality, news, eating, cooking , 3 comments

So a New York Times health blog headline caught my eye this morning: The 11 Best Foods You Aren’t Eating, and when I clicked through, the images at the top of the post made me laugh. Why? Well, they had pictures of beets and cabbage, and this is what I had for dinner on Saturday night:

Yep, that’s coleslaw, beet salad, and my favorite lentil salad (that last on a bed of spinach). (more…)

I’m having some kind of food geek peak experience right now… 25 June 2008 8:57 pm

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…if you’d like to share it with me, go check out Time magazine’s writeup of Harold “On Food and Cooking” McGee in their special 2008 Time 100 “most influential people” issue. Here it is, in all its glory, by no less a food geek than Mr. Alton Brown himself. I cannot make this stuff up, nor would I want to. (I got the good news from Michael Ruhlman’s blog, this post here.) Instead, I will just do a happy little monkey-geek dance. Next up I will do a happy hungry monkey dance for whatever it is Peter’s making in the kitchen, because my tummy is rumbly and it smells like awesome. Here’s hoping you read this post in circumstances at least as happy as the ones in which it was written. Cheers!