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Thank You Thursday: Salsa Verde recipe 10 November 2011 9:53 am

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Today’s thanks are to Juan, a field manager at Groundwork Organics (the farm where we participated in an awesome CSA back in Eugene) who shared this recipe, and his boss Sophie, who wrote it up in the CSA newsletter one week when they gave us tomatillos… so delicious. Anyway, this is maybe just a little modified from that version, but not much. If you’re curious what any of this looks like, I refer you back to yesterday’s post. This sauce is especially good on chilaquiles or any other application of Simple Savory Black Beans, but for some reason I have never tried it on brown gack. Clearly, further experimentation is warranted (and science rules)! (more…)

Wordless Wednesday: Salsa Verde 9 November 2011 9:53 am

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Wordless Wednesday: Tamale Casserole, a sort-of recipe. 2 November 2011 3:46 pm

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Foto Friday: belated documentation of birthday awesomeness 16 September 2011 9:20 am

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My super-awesome 32nd birthday, let me show you it!

Firstly, you may have heard about the hurricane that was due in town that day? I know, it ended up getting downgraded to a tropical storm, but I think on the whole New York City did a good job of responding to this weather event, unlike during Snowpocalypse 2010 (Snowmageddon? I don’t remember what it was called). In any case, the impending storm doom that ended up flooding Vermont (?!) precluded a party, since everybody was supposed to be staying indoors all day (even if it did end up clear and actually kind of lovely). Meanwhile, there was the problem of avoiding caffeine withdrawal headaches in the event of power outages….

Cold-brew coffee to the rescue!

Yay cold brew! Also yay nifty double-walled glasses Peter got for his birthday (thanks Lois!)

If I had known how fun and easy cold-brewing coffee is, I would have started doing it years ago, so it’s probably a good thing I didn’t find out until last month because my caffeine addiction is bad enough already, thanks. Anyway, (more…)

Recipe: Nasi Goreng (Indonesian Fried Rice) 14 June 2011 10:15 am

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This 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…)