Monkey Monday: another night at the library. 20 October 2008 10:07 pm
Posted by Tracy in : New York, consumerism, eating, geekery, nepal, pictures, restaurants, school, seasonality , add a commentI’m about to go back to our Internet-less home and make myself a nice pot of tea in the hopes that it will inspire me to write at least another page of the paper due Wednesday, but first I wanted to note:
- Yay for fall! We’ve been having these beautiful crisp, clear days, and they actually confused me for a little while, because I’d been in Oregon too long and had almost forgotten that weather can be both clear and cold. As I commented to the fabulous Chiara this morning, “[T]his winter, at least, will not be 100% dark and grey! Freezing cold, maybe, but somehow I feel it less when I get more sun. Take that, seasonal affective tendencies! Woo!”
- Yay for finding Nepalese food in New York! Last week (more…)
Yep, still mostly offline. 16 October 2008 6:40 pm
Posted by Tracy in : New York, geekery, kitchen gadgets, news, restaurants , add a commentSo in case it wasn’t obvious from the lack of posts at the end of last week, we still don’t have internet at home. Last Wednesday the cable guy came not to the Moon Monkey Bar, Grille, and Cocktail Lounge, but rather to the building next door, because Time Warner doesn’t know our address exists. Eventually he figured out the “wrong building” problme and came over, but then he couldn’t get instructions from headquarters about how to install our cable, since they didn’t believe in our building’s existence. So the next step is to wait until they send someone out to figure out how to install cable in our building, no joke.
But! TracyFood adventures continue offline despite my having missed the chance to post a recipe on World Egg Day last Friday. For instance I’m at the NYU library right now, after my very first ever Experimental Cuisine Collective meeting, with Alex and Aki from Ideas in Food, who have reminded me that I desperately want a pressure cooker (despite the fact that there’s no room in our apartment for our current kitchen shit, let alone new stuff). More examples of my recent TracyFood adventures include: (more…)
Ask TracyFood: questions from my mom! 7 October 2008 8:01 pm
Posted by Tracy in : New York, advice, consumerism, kitchen gear, random, vocabulary , 1 comment so farToday’s Ask TracyFood comes from none other than my mom, who has sent me a number of questions and recommendations by email and paper mail in the past week. Hi Mom! You have questions; I’m online at the NYU library with answers. First up:
What does the phrase ” Sweat the onions” mean in a recipe?
Wednesday whining, or an invitation to laugh at my misfortunes. 10 September 2008 3:10 pm
Posted by Tracy in : New York, baking, kitchen gear, kitchen mishaps, meta, not even vegetarian, school, tea , 4 commentsDear 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…)
Monkey Monday: food irradiation, breakfast cereal, and more! 8 September 2008 1:46 pm
Posted by Tracy in : Marion Nestle, New York, books, breakfast, food safety, geekery, good news, milk, monkeys, news, politics, random, restaurants, school , add a commentUm, not necessarily in that order. Breakfast first, right? Right. Here goes. I had cereal for breakfast for the first time in a very long time today. Not oatmeal (it’s still way too hot for that), Tracy granola with yogurt, like I love, but something more in the muesli genre (hand-me-down free food from my parents) with milk. Turns out this was a bad idea, one which reminded me why I quit eating cold breakfast cereal. I’m just not a big fan of milk, unless it’s transformed in combination with something delicious, like tea or ice cream ingredients. (I’ll make an exception in the case of hot and fresh chocolatey baked goods, and tomato soup. For some reason I really love the contrast between a glass of cold milk and the savory acidity of hot tomato soup. But I digress.) If grains are going to be soggy, I want them warm, and soaked in delicious stir-fry sauce or something — old milk doesn’t count. So I was still hungry after forcing myself to finish the sad little bowl of milk-soaked oats and whatever. All told, cold breakfast cereal is still not my favorite: anything besides granola leaves much to be desired.
In other news of the disappointing, today the Ethicurean reminded me that the FDA now allows irradiation of spinach and lettuce. (more…)
