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A Thank You Thursday recipe 12 January 2012 8:12 pm

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Today I would like to thank my brother Piett for digging up the booklet of recipes that came with the Cuisinart ice cream machine which we recently passed on to him after replacing it with a KitchenAid attachment (yay more shelf space and a corrollary thank-you to our parents for both those gadgets, whee!) The recipes that came with the new toy look good, but kinda fancy: egg yolks and cookery and whatnot. None of them have quite the exquisite simplicity of the concoction which this post immortalizes for availability when and wherever I have intertweetplusface access, yay! Also, because this would hardly feel like a proper blog post without a bit of linkage, here’s what the New York Times food section had to say about eggless ice creams a year and a half ago (hint: good stuff, and I should try that berry recipe some time!) Ok, enough introduction, on with the treats! (more…)

Foto Friday: Coffee experiment! 18 November 2011 1:25 pm

Posted by Tracy in : food snobbery,fun,geekery,kitchen gear,milk,photos,pictures,reading,recipes,sundance,taste test , add a comment

So yesterday I posted the following picture to Twitter and Tumblr via Instagram on my iPhone (remember that comic I shared on Tuesday with a character reading news from “this thing I can’t put down to save my life”? Yeah, that’s me. Anyway):

Experimenting with coffee-by-weights-not-volumes, as described in this week's New Yorker (yay annual food issue!)
Exciting!

And today I’m going to elaborate considerably on that picture. Because that’s just how I roll. (more…)

Recipe from the vaults: Café au Moncef 5 January 2011 11:24 pm

Posted by Tracy in : convenience,cross-posting,food snobbery,friends,fun,milk,recipes,travel , add a comment

Once upon a time, when the world was young and dinosaurs roamed the Earth, and I wrote regularly for a little website called Everything2, I started a writeup over there with the exciting announcement:

[Instant coffee] doesn’t have to [suck]!

The square brackets are an E2 notation thing which I’ve left in here just for that old skool flavor, but this post is brought to you in part by Mr. Victor Hanson-Smith, who talks to himself all over the intertwitfaceliciousplace (sometimes even in images, both moving and still) and in one such venue, recently complained that his travels in Chile had led him to a situation in which all the coffee was of the Nescafé variety. So Peter linked him to my old Everything2 post about one of the revelations from our adventures in Tunisia during the summer of 2002, and in honor of the successful caffeination that ensued, I am now mostly cutting and pasting the text of that old writeup here, because while I may not be posting much original content here these days, I can still archive stuff I don’t want to forget, oh yes. Anyway. This recipe is from one of the hosts of our Tunisian trip, Moncef—hence its name.

Moncef told us that this cappuccino-like concoction, which piqued our curiosity after seeing him drink it at breakfast for several days in a row, is something all Tunisian college students know how to make. After tasting a sample cup, we were so impressed that we asked for the recipe, which turned out to be almost embarrassingly simple. Turns out the entire secret to making a decent drink using instant coffee is: use hot milk instead of water. To get a little more fancy, try the following recipe:

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On milk and monopolies. 31 March 2010 1:22 pm

Posted by Tracy in : agriculture,books,economics,geekery,GMOs,milk,politics,reading,school , add a comment

So yesterday I spent some quality time (read: almost four hours) in the Rose Reading Room of the main branch of the New York Public Library, blasting through Nature’s Perfect Food: How Milk Became America’s Drink by E. Melanie DuPuis, for my food processing and industrialization class. Today I gave it three out of five stars on GoodReads (which I won’t link to because their shiny toys and WordPress do not get along, sigh) but that might have been a bit ungenerous on my part, perhaps an inevitable result of reading the whole darn thing in one sitting. Also I was maybe a little resentful to be reading DuPuis instead of Anne Mendelson’s Milk: The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages, which has been on my “to-read” list for something like two years now (and I know I love Mendelson’s writing; her Stand Facing the Stove: The Story of the Women Who Gave America The Joy of Cooking remains one of my favorite bits of food geekery ever). But I digress. Back to DuPuis, and why I might have to upgrade her book’s rating. (more…)

Monkey Monday: extra-rambly edition. 23 November 2009 10:21 am

Posted by Tracy in : baking,books,breakfast,cookies,cooking,fangirl,geekery,milk,monkeys,random,vegan , 3 comments

Because I expect everyone will have better things to do over the long weekend than read my blog, and because I have been unable to decide on a regular posting schedule for months now, which might mean not writing anything else postable this week, today’s post is extra-bonus long. There’s lots of Post-Punk Kitchen fangirling, odds and ends about stuff I cooked, upcoming events, and more. Here we go…

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Yay for book review comics! Here’s one for Vegan With a Vengeance. So cute! So awesome! And speaking of that book, I made Isa’s Tempeh Helper for dinner last night, and it was comfort food-alicious (bear in mind, however that I don’t think I’ve ever eaten Hamburger Helper in my life, so I have almost no frame of reference here). Because I had to cut some gnarly-looking bits off the tempeh, I made up the weight difference in cremini mushrooms, which made the end result taste more than a little like the Seitan-Portobello Stroganoff from VWaV, but that’s just another way of saying it was very tasty indeed. (more…)