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 , CommentsAll 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.
Foto Friday: Linguine Alfredo recipe, for Piett. 15 January 2010 11:08 pm
Posted by Tracy in : Holland, Netherlands, cheese, convenience, cooking, eating, eugene, family, hot mess, pasta, photos, pictures, random, recipes, restaurants, vegetarian, work , CommentsSo I’m back from Holland and recovering from the trip, but still pretty freaking tired and nowhere near done uploading and organizing all the pictures I took. Today’s photo post was going to be all about flying fancy-style, but like I said, I haven’t quite got those pictures processed. Instead, I’m going to blog my dinner, which happens to relate back to my trip in more than just the “so tired, can’t get stuff organized” way. You see, on Tuesday night my brother Piett and I made a huge pasta dinner for my parents, my Oma, my aunt Ingrid, uncle Dako, their daughters Stéphanie and Claudia, and Stéphanie’s boyfriend Raymond (to be perfectly fair, Claud made her own food but I was still happy to have something that almost everyone could agree to eat). We cooked 1 1/2 kilos of spaghetti and three different sauces for people to mix and match to their own tastes: tomato-meat, tomato-vegetable sauce, and creamy pesto. Piett was an awesome sous-chef, and somewhere in the chatting over cooking we got to the topic of Alfredo sauce. My basic point was that it’s super-easy, and Piett said he’d like me to show him how to make it some time. While this post is not the video podcast recipe he suggested, it’s a step in that direction.
Linguine Alfredo: it’s what was for my dinner tonight.
Something fun to do tonight? 1 December 2009 2:59 pm
Posted by Tracy in : books, events, not even vegetarian, nyc, random, reading, school, vegetarian, writing , CommentsI know, I know, where’s my ridiculous post-Thanksgiving update? (It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost exactly a week since we started all the cooking.) My guess is it’s in the same hiding place as my motivation to work on finals. Anyway, this event should be interesting, if only for the juxtaposition of Anna “if world hunger didn’t motivate you to take my mom’s advice to eat less meat (or none), how about climate change?” Lappé with Julie “did I mention I’m a butcher now?” Powell.
True Story: Nonfiction at KGB – Julie Powell & Anna Lappé
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street
New York City, NY
December 01, 2009
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Knowledge of this reading was brought to me by Food Sociology classmate Sam Kressler. Thanks Sam! You rock! For more information, check out the full description at KGB Bar’s website. (I just could not bring myself to cut and paste all their text; I may be slow getting back into gear after the long weekend, but that’s just too much cheating.)
Whole Wheat Bread Machine Bread, in words and pictures 25 September 2009 9:27 am
Posted by Tracy in : baking, bread, food snobbery, kitchen gear, pictures, recipes, vegan, vegetarian , CommentsThis Foto Friday I would like to present you with the bread machine recipe I have been using most frequently this summer. It’s adapted from a recipe that came with our current bread machine, the Breadman Ultimate I learned to stop worrying and love, pictured here with the bread ingredients, on our kitchen counter:
A bit crowded on the counter, yes.
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 , CommentsFor 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…)
