TracyFood

Wednesday weirdness: ginger condensation? 19 May 2010 1:44 pm

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So yesterday, as planned in the end of my last post, I made a batch of Tracy granola, and noticed something weird when I measured out the ginger, from this jar here:

Just the standard Fairway-brand ground ginger, see?

But what’s that on the inside of the lid there? What is it? (more…)

Monkey Monday: Dan and Dan sing about eggs! 17 May 2010 7:01 pm

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I know, I know, I’m about a million years behind on all the awesomeness the Intergoogletwitfacetubes have to offer, but big thanks to Ze Frank for blogging about Dan and Dan’s Daily Mail song, so I could waste a dryer cycle watching their videos, including this gem, which is going to be stuck in my head for the foreseeable future, not that there’s anything wrong with that:

Yay for fun songs that combine eggs and tea—two of my very favorite things!

Monkey Monday Macaron Ride Report! 23 March 2010 1:26 pm

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Ok! Very quick summary:

Macaron Day NYC 2010: what I rode; here’s the interactive version.

For more details (and pictures), read on! (more…)

Friday Fun! 19 March 2010 7:18 pm

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Hello readers! I know, long time no nothing. Such are the ways of Spring Break (wooo!) even when the earlier part of this week was mostly spent hiding from positively Oregonian-winter weather, and I maybe could have been writing instead of just watching trash TV on Hulu. But no. Spring Break! Woooo!

Today, however, the weather was lovely, and I was positively energetic, which I proved by going on my first New York City bike ride of the season. How is this at all related to TracyFood? Well, I’ll tell you: I needed this bike ride as a test drive (so to speak) for a ridiculous plan.

You see, tomorrow is Macaron Day, and a bunch of NYC bakeries are giving away said delicious treats to celebrate (and do a little self-promotion, but hey: free treats!) And because I am ridiculous, and because the weather is just that lovely, I got it in my head that maybe I could ride my bike from bakery to bakery, collect macarons from all seventeen participating locations (and if I were indeed going to eat seven almond merengue sandwiches with delicious sweet filling, I would need the bike ride to prevent myself from spontaneously combusting on account of all that sugar. So here’s how I schemed. (more…)

Another belated Foto Friday: adventures in Upper Class dining 15 February 2010 1:53 pm

Posted by Tracy in : consumerism,eating,food as spectator sport,food snobbery,not even vegetarian,photos,pictures,salad,silly,travel,vegetarian,weird , View Comments

All right, party people, I’m pretty sure this is the last post in my series on traveling super-fancy Virgin Atlantic Upper Class style. The first was during the trip out to my Opa’s funeral early last month, then a few weeks later I showed off my flying fancy schwag (and the Virgin Clubhouse at Heathrow, OMG, and ~~yesterday~~ Friday I posted a bit about the actual in-flight experience. But I have, in a sense, saved the best for last, which is to say today I’ll be writing about what I ate on said ridiculously luxurious flight.

Perusng the menu.