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Wednesday whining, or an invitation to laugh at my misfortunes. 10 September 2008 3:10 pm

Posted by Tracy in : kitchen mishaps, not even vegetarian, New York, tea, kitchen gear, school, baking, meta , 4 comments

Dear readers:

I promise not to make this a regular feature. But I hope you’ll be able to laugh at my more ridiculous complaints, and that in time I’ll be able to go back and reread these and see the humor in them, too. So, here’s what I’ve got today:

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Whine the First: I failed at making no-knead bread yesterday, for a variety of reasons. The trouble started when (more…)

FAIL. 6 April 2008 11:28 pm

Posted by Tracy in : kitchen mishaps, food snobbery, America's Test Kitchen, dessert, cooking , 2 comments

So I made my first attempt at testing a recipe for America’s Test Kitchen a few hours ago, and ended up feeling like a big loser. Behold the disastrousness:

The recipe was for butterscotch pudding, and I was really excited going in, and it all went sadly south not long after Peter and I had the following mini-conversation:

T: If there’s anything that smells better than butter and brown sugar —

P: It’d probably involve garlic and onions?

T: And I’d still want to rub it all over my body.

So. I’m not allowed to share the recipe (nor would I want to, lest any of you readers suffer my results) but I feel okay venting about the resulting debacle. Here goes! (more…)

Monkey Monday: public service announcement edition. 10 March 2008 5:55 pm

Posted by Tracy in : meat, kitchen mishaps, nutrition, advice, health, soup, news, cooking , add a comment

Happy Daylight Savings Hangover Monday to all my U.S. readers, and happy feeling our envy to everyone else. While I’m mentioning the bad news first: I’m not revealing travel plans for any international adventures today, and there are sadly still no guitars. Instead, I want to share a few useful morsels of information brought to me by my friendly local Internet (also yours!)

First, the post that gave me the idea for this entry’s theme: A Public Service Announcement From Your Body by Peggy Nature, brought to my attention by the ever-awesome Kate Harding’s Shapely Prose. (more…)

Vegan MoFo Survey! 12 December 2007 9:05 am

Posted by Tracy in : chocolate, nepal, kitchen mishaps, pictures, kitchen gear, friends, eating, vegan, cooking , 2 comments

I learned about this game from Penny, who learned about it from the Post-Punk Kitchen blog (see Isa’s answers here) but the original blog post that got this game started is here. Long story short, it’s a fun list of questions for participants in Isa Chandra’s Vegan MoFo project, a delicious answer to National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo, for those of you who have never succumbed to its temptations). I think the object of the game was for everybody playing along to write a lot about delicious vegan food, but I sort of missed it because I was fresh back from Nepal and there was way too much internet-based excitement to catch up on. Also I’m not vegan. But I still thought this survey was fun. These are my answers from Tuesday evening at around 6 PM, but I’m not posting them until Wednesday morning because I’m a fickle beast like that. (more…)

Ask TracyFood: Okay, no one asked, but here’s some unsolicited advice. 9 May 2007 7:52 pm

Posted by Tracy in : kitchen mishaps, work, Morning Glory, advice , 2 comments

If a reader had written me something like,

Dear FoodTracy,

I loved learning from all the stupid mistakes you wrote about on Monday! Do you have any more hilarious tales of food-related foolishness?

I would have a fantastic answer this week, oh yes. It goes something like this: (more…)