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A Thank You Thursday recipe 12 January 2012 8:12 pm

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Today I would like to thank my brother Piett for digging up the booklet of recipes that came with the Cuisinart ice cream machine which we recently passed on to him after replacing it with a KitchenAid attachment (yay more shelf space and a corrollary thank-you to our parents for both those gadgets, whee!) The recipes that came with the new toy look good, but kinda fancy: egg yolks and cookery and whatnot. None of them have quite the exquisite simplicity of the concoction which this post immortalizes for availability when and wherever I have intertweetplusface access, yay! Also, because this would hardly feel like a proper blog post without a bit of linkage, here’s what the New York Times food section had to say about eggless ice creams a year and a half ago (hint: good stuff, and I should try that berry recipe some time!) Ok, enough introduction, on with the treats! (more…)

Thanksgiving Thank You Thursday 24 November 2011 10:21 am

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And but so first and foremost, readers, thanks for checking out my blog this Thanksgiving. Extra bonus thanks to repeat visitors, and gold stars on those extra bonuses for thoughtful comments both on this blog’s pages and via email. I know it’s kinda corny, but I really am thankful for this blog, for many of the same reasons I am grateful for writing, as I posted over the weekend on Open Letters.

What else? Well, I am still grateful to Peter for showing me Written? Kitten! because it is simply fantastic and has made this second half of NaBloPoMo entirely more do-able and fun. Yay for kitty pictures! And yay (again) for writing! Going through my old Open Letters missives because of the “Writing” meta-post, i found a few other items I expressed gratitude for: friends old and new and not yet met, the Internet (in part for helping me keep in touch with said friends), the dream of a punk rock teahouse of my very own, pasta, green beans, soccer, compassion, flowers, rain (both for helping plants grow and for pausing now and then so it’s easier for me to get out and play—although this has not been the case in NYC for a few days; it’s been positively Oregonian!), my uterus, the absence of tobacco smoke, not having dog poop in my garden, even procrastination, stress, and mad cow disease (because I love me some black humor irony, yes I do).

I also love the more garden-variety humor of time spent with family and friends, which is the plan for today: by the time this post automagically appears online, I will be at my brother Piett’s place in Vermont, preparing or getting ready to prepare a feast of epic proportions. It’s not quite a cast of thousands, but it might feel that way depending on how creative Piett and Michelle are at rearranging their furniture…. It will be an adventure, pretty much no matter what. I am reminded of an African proverb I heard quoted at a Food Day event last month:

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go with others.

Here’s wishing all of us luck on all our endurance events this Thanksgiving.

Love,
-Tracy

This post appeared on TracyFood briefly on Wednesday morning, thanks to my thumbs and the WordPress iPhone app, which I am still not very skilled at using. (My laptop was busy uploading turducken pics, you see, and I didn’t want to mess with its mojo…)

Thank you Thursday: Keith Knight 17 November 2011 8:45 am

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So last month, Keith Knight (about whom I have fangirled out before on this very blog) reminded me why I don’t eat shark anymore:

I’ve actually been meaning to write something about this for more than a year, ever since (warning: link has some very sad before-and-after pictures of a shark killed for food) a post I saw via The Atlantic‘s now-defunct food blog inspired me to draft a response saying “It’s a no-brainer, really: (more…)

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…)

Thank You Thursday: awesome garlic edition 3 November 2011 1:14 pm

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Today’s “Thank you” is first and foremost to my friend Chris, who shared an awesome pro tip on Google Reader back when that meant something beyond clicking “+1″ on a link for all the world to see but not really notice (you know, like before a few days ago?) Anyway, when I made a note to blog about the item in question, I made sure to cut and paste the message Chris sent with it, because yay for awesomeness (and another thing I will miss about the old Google Reader):

TrAAA-CY!

Thanks also for that message, Chris, it made me grin. And here is the highlight video of the good news, which also made the rounds among my Facebook contacts a month or so ago, and which has made my kitchen a louder but more delicious place:

How to Peel a Head of Garlic in Less Than 10 Seconds from SAVEUR.com on Vimeo.

So there it is. Yay! My reply (again, in Reader, back when such a thing was possible, and I know I am old and cranky and hate and fear change but wah wah wah all the same) was: “I KNOW! So awesome.” And it is. Also, (more…)