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Twitter Tuesday: #kitchenpetpeeves 31 January 2012 9:20 am

Posted by Tracy in : advice,cooking,food snobbery,food storage,kitchen gear,kitchen mishaps,Twitter Tuesday , add a comment

So I just found out about the Twitter hashtag #kitchenpetpeeves and as @michaelnatkin (Michael Natkin of Herbivoracious.com) says:

If you are considering restaurant work, read this hashtag #kitchenpetpeeves – a hell of a lot of education in every 140 chars

I tell you, he only speaks the truth. After only a bit of scrolling, I found pretty much everything I might have tweeted myself (and they’re not all about terrible restaurant customers, either!) Here are some of my favorites (bonus: writing this post has distracted me from reading the whole thread and stopped me from retweeting all but a few of these):

Joshua Galliano @cookingkid
almost empty containers not consolidated into smaller ones RT @ad_it_up #kitchenpetpeeves empty containers in the walkin

This one drives me nuts even at home, even when I’m the one guilty of not bothering to free up fridge space! (more…)

Monkey Monday: cooking and reading 4 January 2010 3:21 pm

Posted by Tracy in : cooking,hot mess,kitchen mishaps,monkeys,not even vegetarian,pasta,photos,pictures,pizza,random , 1 comment so far

As always, I am hopelessly behind on about a million things I want to read (at least more than a thousand in Google Reader alone, for instance) but I wanted to share a few fun things I’ve drifted past while going with the “too much information” flow. I will begin and end, however, with stuff I’ve cooked recently, because I am so not even a little bit modest about the awesomeness.

Stuff I’ve cooked recently

Check out this fabulous penne alla vodka we made with duck prosciutto (made by a Columbia Greenmarket vendor whose name I cannot remember). So delicious!

Also, I kinda dig the refracted view of Peter’s plate through the glass there.

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Monkey Monday: winter squash goodness and more. 2 November 2009 9:47 am

Posted by Tracy in : books,cooking,eating,fangirl,Harold McGee,health at every size,kitchen mishaps,monkeys,nyc,reading,seasonality,winter squash , 2 comments

Fun fact! In some dialects of English (but not mine), the word “pumpkin” is used to refer to all winter squash, not just the orange hard-skinned kinds used to make pies and jack-o-lanterns (and other tasty things, some of which I will be describing later in this post). In my experience, this is mostly a Southern Hemisphere/British usage, but I welcome a more substantial analysis than my touchy-feely “I think this is how it works.” Meanwhile, in this Northern Hemisphere, between Halloween and the end of Daylight Savings Time it’s officially winter in my brain, and for the past week or so I have been marking the changing season by eating lots of winter squash, including pumpkin. Yum.

For starters, (more…)

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

Posted by Tracy in : baking,kitchen gear,kitchen mishaps,meta,not even vegetarian,nyc,school,tea,whoops , 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 : America's Test Kitchen,cooking,dessert,food snobbery,kitchen mishaps,pictures,whoops , 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…)