Wordless Wednesday: Turducken edition (may not be not safe for veg*ns). 23 November 2011 11:20 pm
Posted by Tracy in : food as spectator sport,food snobbery,funny,not even vegetarian,photos,pictures , add a comment
TMI Tuesday: McRib edition 15 November 2011 1:57 pm
Posted by Tracy in : comics,consumerism,cross-posting,economics,fangirl,fast food,fun,mystery meat,not even vegetarian,pictures , add a commentFirst and foremost, full disclosure seems in order (and very much in the spirit of Too Much Information): I have never eaten a McDonalds McRib sandwich (TM?) In fact, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen one in the, um, flesh — if something as hyper-processed as the McRib (or, for that matter, McNuggets or Spam or… you get the idea, the list goes on) can still be considered flesh. Maybe it’s like honey in that regard, if it gets sufficiently processed it can no longer be called by that name? I don’t know. Anyway, that seemed like an important bit of information to get out of the way: this post is more about the McRib as cultural phenomenon than anything else. For whatever reason last week seems to have been McRib Week on various and sundry online media I follow, and so here are the items that made me say, “Ok, clearly I need to do a TracyFood post about this,” starting with some hilarious conspiracy theory economics, and ending with comics for people who want to skim past all that boring long reading stuff. (more…)
(Nearly) Wordless Wednesday! 5 October 2011 12:10 pm
Posted by Tracy in : fun,meat,not even vegetarian,photos,pictures,travel,vegetarianism , add a commentThis post cannot be truly wordless because
1: I gotta give credit where it’s due to Michael Natkin of Herbivoracious.com for giving me the idea.
and
2: There’s, um, words in the picture I’m sharing. But awesomely! Check it out:
Butcher shop graffiti in Coimbra, Portugal
When will I have the self-control to actually post pictures without writing about them? Only time will tell.
Foto Friday: Delicious things eaten during recent travels. 23 September 2011 9:09 am
Posted by Tracy in : bread,cheese,consumerism,dessert,eating,fun,Holland,Netherlands,not even vegetarian,photos,random,travel,video , add a commentSo last month Ze Frank blogged a video that made me super-hungry:
EAT from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.
It also inspired me to make a little photocollage of some of the gastronautic highlights of my travels this summer:
So, yeah, that was pretty great. You can click on any of those little images to go to bigger versions on Flickr. Some even have descriptions! Others I may have to write about at greater length some other time, and still others I did not photograph but should describe in glorious detail before they get any more faded in my memory. (Also note that these are only the pictures I took of our trip, which is why I am not in any of them; Peter has the pictures of me going “OMG NOM YES” but they aren’t in a place where I can link to them yet.)
Recipe: Nasi Goreng (Indonesian Fried Rice) 14 June 2011 10:15 am
Posted by Tracy in : cooking,eating,eggs,food snobbery,friends,ingredients,meat,not even vegetarian,recipes , add a commentThis 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…)
