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One more weekend of Open Letters 26 November 2011 4:19 pm

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Today I found quinces at the farm store down the street from my brother’s place in Vermont!

So I wrote them a little love note at my Open Letters blog. Check it out!

Recipe: Nasi Goreng (Indonesian Fried Rice) 14 June 2011 10:15 am

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This post is dedicated to Allison, who wrote me back in April saying, “the latest Cook’s Illustrated has a recipe for nasi goreng, and they are just wrong. No fried egg? And the only dead animal is shrimp? Not good enough. But now I am craving it. Could you get your recipe to me somehow? That would be really, really awesome.” I replied with a link to the Everything2.com version of “my” recipe and confessed that I often cheat the seasoning of nasi with pre-made spice mixes — my favorite brand is Conimex, which the mystery Asian market in Eugene sometimes had, but I really don’t know where to get it otherwise short of next time I go to the grocery store in the Netherlands. (Clearly, I need to do more exploring in Chinatown(s) and beyond.) At the time my excuse for not making a TracyFood post updating the recipe included:
— trapped under an Otis cat
— full of Dinosaur BBQ from celebrating the launch of the update to PlaNYC (check out the section on food, website typos and all, because it’s kind of my baby).
— oh, you know, that whole pesky having-to-graduate thing

But I have pretty well run out of excuses, especially that last one, yay! So here, less than two months late, woohoo, and less than a month late for Allison’s birthday (sorry lady!), is that recipe, updated into TracyFood post form. (more…)

Wednesday weirdness: ginger condensation? 19 May 2010 1:44 pm

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So yesterday, as planned in the end of my last post, I made a batch of Tracy granola, and noticed something weird when I measured out the ginger, from this jar here:

Just the standard Fairway-brand ground ginger, see?

But what’s that on the inside of the lid there? What is it? (more…)

Recent moments of awesomeness. 25 February 2009 6:00 pm

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So I didn’t have the most competent Tuesday afternoon — barely left the house in time to make the talk at the library, only to be thwarted by trains and get there fifteen minutes late. Argh. Good thing they’re doing that talk again on March 18; I’ll try to give myself more of a head start then (or I’ll be out doing something awesome for spring break, and either way the expected value is pretty darn good).

Anyway.

I wandered off from the library, grumpy at myself and feeling socially awkward, only to spy this FreshDirect ad, which made me so happy I almost forgot about my little blunder: