Foto Friday: Turducken, continued. 25 November 2011 10:25 am
Posted by Tracy in : cooking,events,family,food as spectator sport,friends,fun,hot mess,not even vegetarian,people,photos,pictures , add a commentHappy Buy Nothing Day!
I can’t even begin to tell you how hard it was to avoid making comments on Wednesday’s pictures, readers. If any of you clicked through to Flickr for larger versions (uh, correction, saw hover text from Flickr, since I didn’t quite have the technical ability: see below), you may have noticed a touch of verbosity in the captions there… Yup, those would be my efforts to channel away all the text I couldn’t use on a Wordless Wednesday. ANYWAY. In case you haven’t seen enough turducken to last you a year or more (believe it or not, this was Peter and my third such effort), and you didn’t eat so much yesterday that you don’t want to look at food till Sunday or so, eventually this post will be filled with more pictures of the ghosts of Thanksgiving two years past. For now, however, I am still at my brother’s place in Vermont, where neither Internet nor phone coverage are quite reliable enough to post much, so for now I will leave you with some teaser placeholder pics:
Wordless Wednesday: Tamale Casserole, a sort-of recipe. 2 November 2011 3:46 pm
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Tuesday is for Technical Difficulties. And Twitter. 1 November 2011 3:28 pm
Posted by Tracy in : cross-posting,events,food safety,food snobbery,geekery,hot mess,Michael Pollan,random,Twitter Tuesday,whoops,writing , add a commentWell, readers, I’m sorry to report that my NaBloPoMo effort is off to a very frustrating beginning, as the Tumblr I created and registered for the event seems to be a nonstarter—I haven’t been able to confirm my registration with BlogHer and on top of that Tumblr doesn’t support fun and easy imports from other sites anymore, so I’m going to have to cross-post by hand for the time being. Whine, whine, whine.
But enough of that, on with Twitter Tuesday. Like the name suggests, my thought here is to aggregate various and sundry amusing tweets that catch my eye over the course of any given arbitrary period of time (since I can’t keep up with them, it pretty much has to be a quasi-random sampling, that’s for sure). (more…)
Have you heard? 18 May 2010 3:52 pm
Posted by Tracy in : geekery,health at every size,hot mess,Marion Nestle,news,politics,random,weird , 2 commentsThe Partnership for a Healthier America (who should maybe think about trading that “healthier” out for “thinner,” seeing as how they talk about fat as if it’s synonymous with bad health, sigh) and Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation (an industry group who at least have the honesty to put the weight obsession right in their name), in collaboration with Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move (about which I’ve already had a word or two on this blog), have brokered a deal wherein food companies promised to reduce the number of calories available per year in the U.S. food supply by 1.5 trillion calories by 2015, starting with a trillion fewer calories per year by 2012. Sounds pretty super-impressive, right? Those are big numbers! (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 commentSo 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.
