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First order of business: today is International Beer Day. I trust you are all intent on doing your part. Second order of business: NPR’s annual summer reading poll concerns fantasy and science fiction. You can help them whittle down the field to the top 100. Carl V. covers the flaws of the list pretty well, [...] One thing about convalescing, you can get a lot of reading done. And so, here’s a brief review. DeVoto, Bernard (1948). The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto. NY: TinHouse Books. 127 pages. When he wasn’t winning Pulitzers or National Book Awards, Bernard DeVoto penned this brief ode to the joys of the cocktail. Long out of [...] This is probably old hat to you long-time devotees of cast iron cookware. But I just recently started cooking eggs in my cast iron skillet and am amazed at hoe great they come out. Quicker and better than the results I’m used to from my All-Clad skillet. The cast iron skillet: what can’t it do? The heat finally went away, which means it’s been safe to turn the stove on again. I’ve done some more messing about in the kitchen (and updated the page appropriately), even going so far as to inflict my cooking on some guests. There was a time when I was a connoisseur of cheap beer. Koch’s Golden Anniversary, Carling Black Label, Schaefer, Red White & Blue: I knew them all. So I read with interest this taste test of cheap, domestic cans of beer conducted by the Going Out Gurus. Here are the ratings, with my comments. 1. [...] A lot of restaurants in Paris bring you a business card along with the check. It makes for a nifty souvenir, and a handy way to remember where you ate. (Like you could ever forget.) I’d been intending to add notes about three recipes to the Messing Around The Kitchen page. Unfortunately I waited too long and clean forgot what two of the were. Perils of getting older I guess. From now on I’ll jot these things down. There’s a storm coming Friday and all sorts of nasty colds are circulating through Boston-area offices. Luckily the Intended and I prepared for this earlier in the week, by buying a bag of lemons, a fifth of Jameson and all the other fixings necessary to make a Hot Toddy the Silver Fox way. A Hot [...] This recipe comes along just in time for the holiday season, or my hypothetical zombie game party: the candied bacon martini. Who among us can say no? The Intended brought it to my attention that The Littlest Bar is reopening at 102 Broad St (next door to the Times.) It will be hard to recreate the atmosphere of the original, but hopefully the new establishment will develop a character of its own. Anyway, it’s nice to get a bar back, especially since [...] There was a lot of things to be done this past weekend, and most of them happened, including watching my cousin on Jeopardy Friday night and cooking penne with pumpkin sauce with The Intended. And I made chili. Again. I love you, slow cooker. While we’re on the subject of food, wouldn’t it be cool [...] The Washington Post book blog has a post about Four Books that Changed the Way I Eat. While I always covet new cookbooks I can’t say any book has ever changed the way I eat. People have changed the way I eat – hanging out with folks who consider food to be a big deal [...] Several weeks ago The Intended and I were trying to remember where I got the recipe for the Potato and Fennel soup that I made last fall. In then end, I had to flip through a half dozen cookbooks before finding it. To prevent this from happening again, and to cater to my desire to [...] So the Marliave has re-opened and this is grand. I’m all in favor of preserving and maintaining bits of Boston’s past. (Requeiscat in pace Littlest.) But let’s focus on what’s important here people – foie gras sliders. Foie gras sliders will be served in the upstairs dining room at Marliave. Foie. Gras. Sliders. I am [...] This particular meme has been floating about for a while now. The Intended pointed it out to me when it popped up at C. & Z., and now I see Heather’s gone and done it. So here’s my own version of the VGT Omnivore’s Hundred (after the jump). [...] |
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