(Belated) Happy Pi Approximation Day! 23 July 2009 12:16 pm
Posted by Tracy in : baking,cooking,dessert,events,geekery,pictures,seasonality,whoops , 1 comment so farI meant to post this yesterday, but then I got distracted, perhaps by the delicious desserts…
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Mathematically inclined readers probably already know about celebrating Pi Day on March 14 (ideally at 1:59 in the morning, for more decimal places). What a good excuse for pie, right? Pie for everyone! Yay! Somewhat lesser-known but no less delicious is Pi Approximation Day, July 22. You see, 22/7 = 3.14285… etc. So how does one celebrate the approximation of pi? T-Rex has one suggestion over at Dinosaur Comics, but I prefer to approximate the baked good with other baked goods that are not quite pie: cobblers, crisps, and tarts. Given my history of struggling mightily with pie crusts, 22/7 is my kind of holiday. So yesterday I hit the Union Square Greenmarket with fruit on my mind, and returned home with six beautiful peaches and about a pound and a half of blueberries. (Also a quart of buttermilk, in case I decided to go the “blueberry cobbler with biscuit-y topping” route.) Then I broke open my trusty copy of Baking Illustrated
Wednesday “whoops” redux 17 September 2008 11:55 pm
Posted by Tracy in : events,fangirl,geekery,random,school,silly,Warren Belasco,whoops , add a commentSo regular readers of this blog will know that I have been sooooooo excited about school for awhile now, like at least since getting in. My eagerness was such that I programmed my class schedule into Google Calendar when I first registered in May. Only it turns out the gods of the Internet adjusted for time zones when we moved…. which is why, at 7:35 tonight, when I started recognizing some other food studies first-years in a flood of people emerging from the direction of the classroom where I thought I should be going, I finally figured out that my class was at 4:55. Gah! (I didn’t figure out about the time change earlier because I had to rearrange the rest of my schedule on short notice, but I made those changes after leaving the Pacific time zone.)
The good news (and the reason I don’t want do-overs for the whole friggin’ day) is that I did something fun and geeky before going down to NYU campus to eat dinner (mmm, pizza) and finish my class reading (urgh, academic sociology). (more…)
Wednesday whining, or an invitation to laugh at my misfortunes. 10 September 2008 3:10 pm
Posted by Tracy in : baking,kitchen gear,kitchen mishaps,meta,not even vegetarian,nyc,school,tea,whoops , 4 commentsDear readers:
I promise not to make this a regular feature. But I hope you’ll be able to laugh at my more ridiculous complaints, and that in time I’ll be able to go back and reread these and see the humor in them, too. So, here’s what I’ve got today:
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Whine the First: I failed at making no-knead bread yesterday, for a variety of reasons. The trouble started when (more…)
FAIL. 6 April 2008 11:28 pm
Posted by Tracy in : America's Test Kitchen,cooking,dessert,food snobbery,kitchen mishaps,pictures,whoops , 2 commentsSo I made my first attempt at testing a recipe for America’s Test Kitchen a few hours ago, and ended up feeling like a big loser. Behold the disastrousness:
The recipe was for butterscotch pudding, and I was really excited going in, and it all went sadly south not long after Peter and I had the following mini-conversation:
T: If there’s anything that smells better than butter and brown sugar —
P: It’d probably involve garlic and onions?
T: And I’d still want to rub it all over my body.
So. I’m not allowed to share the recipe (nor would I want to, lest any of you readers suffer my results) but I feel okay venting about the resulting debacle. Here goes! (more…)
Monkey Monday: public service announcement edition. 10 March 2008 5:55 pm
Posted by Tracy in : advice,cooking,health,kitchen mishaps,meat,monkeys,news,nutrition,soup,whoops , add a commentHappy Daylight Savings Hangover Monday to all my U.S. readers, and happy feeling our envy to everyone else. While I’m mentioning the bad news first: I’m not revealing travel plans for any international adventures today, and there are sadly still no guitars. Instead, I want to share a few useful morsels of information brought to me by my friendly local Internet (also yours!)
First, the post that gave me the idea for this entry’s theme: A Public Service Announcement From Your Body by Peggy Nature, brought to my attention by the ever-awesome Kate Harding’s Shapely Prose. (more…)
