Corned beef adventures with Greg. 30 March 2010 10:36 am
Posted by Tracy in : not even vegetarian,people,photos,pictures , View CommentsSo, something I forgot to mention in my comments about Roger Horowitz’ Putting Meat on the American Table
Monkey Monday: cookies and random 29 March 2010 1:28 pm
Posted by Tracy in : baking,cookies,dessert,eating,friends,fun,monkeys,people,photos,pictures , View CommentsSo first things first, big thanks are due to Sam, for bringing homemade Oreos to one of Greg’s dinner parties and saying stuff like “they’re super-easy!” and “just Google for ‘homemade Oreos’” because I did and the results were delicious:
Oh yes.
These are almost exactly the recipe at Smitten Kitchen, with the somewhat-less-sugar version of the cookie parts and a heaping teaspoon of instant coffee thrown in for extra bittersweet chocolatey goodness. The only drawback was (more…)
Monkey Monday: knee-jerk reaction edition. 1 June 2009 10:58 am
Posted by Tracy in : consumerism,convenience,cooking,friends,monkeys,people,politics,random,restaurants,work , View CommentsHey! Is anybody reading this planning to go to the Vegan Brunch book party at MooShoes tonight? I’m going to try to make it, but I’m going to have to get Isa’s autograph on Vegan With a Vengeance since my super-lucky copy of Vegan Brunch is still on its way over here (do tell me all about it, Megan!) Okay, now on with the rant.
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Disclaimer: Only the last paragraph of this rant (the update) was written after I’d actually read the blog post in question, but I stand by everything that leapt partly-formed from my brain as soon as I saw this headline and summary:
American Dining’s Service Deficit
from The Atlantic Food Channel by Nina and Tim Zagat
About 70 percent of complaints recorded by the Zagat Survey are about service; far more than food. How to fix our service problem.
PAY THEM! I shouted at my computer screen, startling the cat who was climbing around on my desk in a futile effort to get my attention. (more…)
Report: “Room to Grow” mini-conference at NYU, 4 February 2009 10 February 2009 1:31 pm
Posted by Tracy in : agriculture,environment,events,garden,geekery,local food,nyc,people,school , View CommentsAs you probably guessed from the title of this post, on Wednesday 4 February 2009, I attended the “Room to Grow: Envisioning Urban Agriculture at NYU” mini-conference. It was a great way of getting up to speed on gardening efforts around campus, and inspiring pictures of city farms and gardens always do a Tracy good. Plus I got to plant kale in a nifty newspaper pot (you can bet I snagged an extra to dissect, in the hopes that I can learn the relevant origami), hang out with other NYU gardening geeks, and there was tasty food, much of it locally grown. All told, it was a fabulous evening. (more…)
Foto Friday: Tracy cooks a benefit dinner. 19 December 2008 1:43 pm
Posted by Tracy in : cooking,dessert,eating,friends,people,pictures , View CommentsSo. Earlier this month I wrote about some fundraisers for Mark Zolun of Iraila Mediterranean Rustica, who has cancer and no health insurance (someday, I will live in a 21st century first world country that does more than pay lip service to its small business owners, but today is not that day). While there’s still a chance I might make it to one of the events in Eugene, in the meantime my mom and I cooked up a scheme to have a little benefit dinner of our own at my parents’ house in Westfield, NJ. The menu: ricotta gnocchi in hazelnut brown butter sauce, with two different kinds of roasted vegetables on the side.
I was going to attempt babas au rhum for dessert, but last-minute sanity (and a shortage of flour) prevailed. Besides, I was already tempting fate by imitating one of Iraila’s signature dishes — two would just have been pushing my luck too far. (more…)
