Confessions of a food geek: Olive oil obsession and more. 6 June 2007 10:46 pm
Posted by Tracy in : America's Test Kitchen, cheese, cooking, eating, identity, news, salad , 3 commentsSo in case it wasn’t obvious from, oh, this entire blogsite, I’m a bit of a food geek. My kitchen scale is the coolest new toy maybe since Harold McGee’s On Food and Cooking, I think Cook’s Illustrated is by far the best food magazine in the entire universe not just because it has no ads but even more so because their recipes read like lab reports (here’s what we wanted, here’s what went wrong, here’s what we learned and how we eventually fixed the problem), and until recently I was pretty sure that nothing could beat the culinary nerdiness of Cook’s TV show, America’s Test Kitchen. However, until just a few hours ago I had never seen a single episode of Good Eats with Alton Brown. Wow. (more…)
Garden update! 16 May 2007 11:32 pm
Posted by Tracy in : books, cooking, dessert, garden, pictures, salad , 2 commentsI had hoped to take pictures, but it was dark by the time the camera battery was recharged and I’d gotten anything cool-looking done, so proof of today’s awesome accomplishments will have to wait (although I did update my garden pictures on Flickr to include last week’s adventures in the front yard and at the Urban Farm). What did I do today? Well… (more…)
Foto Friday: granola, gardens, and my fridge! 11 May 2007 5:48 pm
Posted by Tracy in : baking, eating, friends, garden, pictures, salad , add a commentFirst and foremost, Caitlin made Tracy granola! She wrote about it (and posted shiny pictures) here. Yay!
Apparently all the cool food blogging kids are posting pictures of their fridges these days, thanks to a challenge by the fabulously named Becks and Posh. I was inspired to participate in the silliness by entries at the Ethicurean and Mental Masala, and also a particularly annoying passage in Coming Home to Eat by Gary Nabham (but my rant about that book will be getting its own entry in the not-too-distant future, oh yes). Anyway, behold: (more…)
Just for comparison: one “normal” day’s food (no work, no locality restrictions) 26 April 2007 2:56 pm
Posted by Tracy in : CSA, Morning Glory, anthropology, books, breakfast, cheese, convenience, cooking, eating, eugene, hungry planet, local food, salad, school, tea, vegetarian, work , add a commentLike I mentioned on Tuesday, on work days there’s essentially no way I could stick to a local food diet, or any other except vegetarian, by virtue of the fact that Morning Glory is a meat-free zone (there’s even a little sticker next to the door that says so!) Still, I wrote down everything I ate on Monday and Tuesday for comparison to this weekend’s locavore experiment (in case maybe my food habits have changed dramatically since my original hungry Tracy experiment, and here’s what I ate on Tuesday: (more…)
Recipe: Balsamic Baked Tofu 20 March 2007 3:30 pm
Posted by Tracy in : Morning Glory, baking, cooking, eating, recipes, salad, vegan, vegetarian , 2 commentsI am supposed to be writing my final paper for my sustainable agriculture class today, so in an effort to avoid too much TracyFood-related procrastination I’m posting another cut-and-paste from back in my day at Everything2, again slightly updated for TracyFood purposes. I used Jack Bishop’s pan-glazing method to make a version of this tofu for lunch at Morning Glory yesterday because there was half a pound of raw soybean-curd-liciousness left over after I made the vegan Caesar salad dressing. Then I put it and some diced organic tomatoes on a bed of spinach and had way more food than I could eat, and took the leftover glazed tofu home, where it’s been serving me quite well for lunch today. Yum. (more…)
