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Foto Friday: Coffee experiment! 18 November 2011 1:25 pm

Posted by Tracy in : food snobbery,fun,geekery,kitchen gear,milk,photos,pictures,reading,recipes,sundance,taste test , add a comment

So yesterday I posted the following picture to Twitter and Tumblr via Instagram on my iPhone (remember that comic I shared on Tuesday with a character reading news from “this thing I can’t put down to save my life”? Yeah, that’s me. Anyway):

Exciting!

And today I’m going to elaborate considerably on that picture. Because that’s just how I roll. (more…)

(Almost) Wordless Wednesday: Roasting Roots. 16 November 2011 9:05 am

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This first picture explains why this would be an almost Wordless Wednesday even if I hadn’t written this little intro bit:

I made these for the Sundance hot buffet once, way back in the day.
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Thank you Thursday: Lentil salad with feta. 20 May 2010 9:21 pm

Posted by Tracy in : cheese,consumerism,food snobbery,photos,pictures,seasonality,summer,sundance,thank you Thursday,vegetarian , add a comment

Let me show you a little composition I like to call: “Lentil Salad, F*** Yeah!”

That’s my favorite lentil salad, on a bed of green leaf lettuce and topped with feta cheese. Not just any feta, though, but the nigh-legendary Bulgarian feta. Let me explain. (more…)

Gastro-culinary highlights of the long weekend. 23 September 2009 3:33 pm

Posted by Tracy in : breakfast,consumerism,cookies,dessert,eating,events,fish,food snobbery,not even vegetarian,nyc,restaurants,seasonality,summer,sundance,travel,vegetarian , 2 comments

For the purposes of this post, the long weekend ended about fifteen minutes ago, because I’m a big slacker. Peter and I got up unholy early on Friday morning for a visit to the not-yet-frozen north, by which I mean his parents’ cabin on Osgood Pond, which is in Paul Smiths, NY, outside Saranac Lake, not far past Lake Placid — and if you haven’t heard of any of those places, that’s okay: the whole point of this expedition was to hang out with friends on a nice mini-vacation in the middle of nowhere.

In my opinion, we succeeded mightily. There was paddling — both canoe and Adirondack guide boat — and relaxing in front of a wood-burning stove, both with and without games. Also there was tasty food. (more…)

Minestrone variations 3 June 2008 9:59 am

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So some Thursdays ago I posted my my basic minestrone recipe but I cut it short because I felt like I’d been rambling on for far too long. Today I finally present you with the conclusion to my minestrone saga: suggestions for tasty ways to adapt this soup to almost any season or available vegetable-type ingredient. Here goes!

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