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Thank You Thursday: more flight of fancy. 11 February 2010 11:04 am

Posted by Tracy in : consumerism,family,fun,not even vegetarian,photos,pictures,silly,travel , 1 comment so far

This week’s Thank You is to Virgin Atlantic, for providing so many wonderful distractions during my sad trip early last month. When I rule the world, transportation to and from funerals will always be ridiculously luxurious, oh yes. In the meantime, I can be glad I got to enjoy the awesomeness in at least one direction. It started in the Upper Class Clubhouse at Newark Airport. You may remember my very dazed brother from the original “guess where I am?” post, and I have him to thank for finally getting a picture of me that showcased our swank surroundings:

I’m so fancy! I read The New Yorker!

Not pictured: the buffet. Or getting fast-tracked through security minutes before they started boarding, because why should the fancy, fancy likes of us have to spend more time than absolutely necessary among the little people? Tee-hee. Anyway, once aboard the plane, (more…)

Ridiculously belated Foto Friday: adventures in flying fancy 22 January 2010 11:12 pm

Posted by Tracy in : consumerism,eating,family,food snobbery,fun,not even vegetarian,photos,pictures,restaurants,silly,tea,travel , 2 comments

Today’s post is dedicated to Ansley, not just for reminding me to write it, but also because she is going to Cancún for a long weekend tomorrow and I’m maybe just a little jealous. Anyway, have an awesome trip, lady, and do not even try to match the ridiculously huge pile of stuff I scored in the process of flying to Amsterdam at the beginning of the month:

Schwag from Virgin Upper Class

On top of the shoe bag, which I totally did use, you can see such diverse items as socks, a toothbrush, an Upper Class luggage tag, some very cute envelopes, and a copy of The Economist (which I finally finished reading yesterday because I am a giant slacker and also because I have been reading overtime to keep the pile of New Yorkers smaller than I am. Specifically TracyFood-related items (I guess the toothbrush sort of counts, too) include (more…)

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

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

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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Off for a (sad) week… 6 January 2010 8:33 pm

Posted by Tracy in : eating,events,family,hot mess,random,travel , 5 comments

Today’s post is going to be even more self-indulgent than usual, readers, so please accept my apologies for that in advance. You see, my ridiculous bedhead and I are sad:

Sad.

because my beloved grandfather, my Opa, died this morning after a long battle with a whole host of ailments that I’m going to sum up as “old age” even though nobody officially uses that as a cause of death anymore. I raved about it last night on a blog I hadn’t updated in literally over a year but tonight my emotions are quieter, more relieved/resigned. We all knew this was coming, if not when, and it happened in pretty much the best possible way (the kind that makes me envy the Dutch healthcare system something fierce) but that doesn’t make it not sad, it just makes it not a complete horrific disaster, which isn’t nothing, but it’s cold comfort nonetheless. Anyway, I’m flying out to Holland very soon, and writing this in part to deal with having my mind blown by the Virgin Atlantic Club at Newark Airport (picture of my brother sharing similar shock and awe after the cut). Let’s just say that I’m now more certain than ever that my next credit card will rock some frequent flyer miles, oh yes.

Of course, I must tell you about the food here. (more…)

Up past my bedtime again, yep. 25 December 2009 3:38 am

Posted by Tracy in : baking,dessert,family,fun,seasonality , 1 comment so far

So about two and a half hours ago I pulled a pretty rad-looking mincemeat pie out of the oven here at Peter’s parents’ place upstate, and now I’m waiting on Super-Secret XMas Baking Project 2009 (pie turned out to be a fantastic excuse/cover story/source of plausible deniability/diversionary tactic, oh yes). It’s a very good thing I had a nap this afternoon.

But dude! I made a pretty good-looking pie! The crust might be a little crumbly instead of flaky, but y’know what? I’ll take it. Rolling out dough between sheets of wax paper totally worked wonders and I am feeling a bit ninja-like for that bit of trickery, but mostly I am sleepy. Bake faster, mystery treats!

While I’m waiting, I think I’ll make this a Tracyfood Xmas tradition: