Category Archives: Food & Drink

-june sunday

  By Sarah | June 26, 2011 - 10:22 am | Findings, Food & Drink
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not pictured: dill bovre

Farmer’s Market Sundays include – swiss chard, cucumbers, peaches, cherries, white button mushrooms, yellow squash, zucchini, tomatoes, bell peppers (that smell fresher than any pepper you’ve never smelled), sourdough bread.

And the best two dollars I’ve ever spent goes to:

Frankie Says Relax

Today’s plans include the usual. Lunch, cooking, soaking beans, watching the newest Netflix arrival, Mystic River, and playing Michael Jackson records – as yesterday was the 2nd anniversary of his death. Saw Dinosaur Jr. last night, and Henry Rollins (real last name: Garfield, and is from Glover Park – right here in DC) interview them on stage before they played BUG (download here.) Even with ear plugs my hearing is still very deaf. Accomplished weekend of writing, drinking pots of coffee and replacing my brake pads.

Found a new band WU LYF. I’d have you download it but the internets removed it due to illegality? Who knew that was a thing? Indie meets screams and shouts of rasp and moanin’. Recorded in an empty church, and used as a sound itself, this record is a new sound and actually quite refreshing. Inquire within.

Need some reading?

A due congrats to New York State for passing Gay Marriage, effective in 30 days. Between that and Obama pulling more folks out of Afghanistan, I say we’re finally getting some things right.

part 4

  By Sarah | April 7, 2011 - 6:21 pm | Food & Drink
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carrot cake pancakes

Angeline made these puppies. Served with a honey butter and confectioner’s sugar. A very rich pancake, kind of looked like a thick, heavy latka. A sweet pancake, in the same vein as a sweet bread – something you don’t want too much of because it’s so rich but simultaneously want to stuff your face with because it’s so tasty. Like all first time recipes you live and learn and realize what can be done better for next time. Really shred those carrots. Mmmmmmmm-

 

 

part 3

  By Sarah | March 22, 2011 - 6:35 pm | Food & Drink
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spinach pie

OK, so the lesson is learned. When you are making a spinach pie, you shouldn’t substitute soy milk for regular milk. Something about this pie didn’t taste quite right. It also didn’t cook quite right. Maybe it will taste better tomorrow, Angeline reassures me. I’m already disappointed that I don’t have awesome leftovers for lunch tomorrow. But when I took that first bite into the peanut butter and (raspberry) jelly sandwich I made, screwing up in the kitchen almost made it worth it. Earth’s greatest (simplest?) sandwich for dinner. What more do you want? More new music? Sure!

earth’s greatest sandwich

cooking adventures part 1

  By Sarah | February 27, 2011 - 1:57 pm | Food & Drink
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Technically its vegan, but its vegetarian chili. Includes: kidney beans, white beans, jalapeno pepper, yellow bell pepper, zucchini, one red onion, big can crushed tomatoes with juice, plenty of cumin, oregano, pepper, some salt, plenty of fresh sliced garlic cloves and some veggie soup stock. I was planning on cornbread, but our oven is down.

chili

Breakfast: tofu scramble with fresh chopped cilantro and broccoli sprouts and robusto cheese. Before placing on saucer, do some stripes of spicy mustard. Plenty of black pepper.

breakfast

Consider the Lobster, DFW

  By Riley | November 27, 2010 - 4:56 pm | Food & Drink
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lobster, seafood, murder

the creature in question

The verbose and now deceased David Foster Wallace, an Ithaca native, is known for prolificacy in both fiction and non-. In this essay from August of 2004, DFW explores the Maine Lobster Fest, “work[ing] out and articulat[ing] some of the troubling questions that arise amid all the laughter and saltation and community pride.”

It’s in an article like this that reveals vocabulary you won’t find grouped in any other article. This article explores a crustacean’s suffering and ethical concerns regarding the subject of cooking the animal, paired with DFW’s vivid descriptions and obscure references known only to those in the field (whether the niches be marine zoology or epicure). Seriously, where else do the words fathom, chitin, insensate, carapace, vermiform, and viands share a page, besides in an essay by DFW?

It says it’s ten pages, but the last three-and-a-half are footnotes. Please explore this historical, cultural, etymological, and empathetic screed. Do yourself some good.

http://www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000s/2004/08/consider_the_lobster?currentPage=1

fathoms ~ a length of six feet
chitin ~ a fibrous mass of polysaccharides that comprises the exoskeletons of arthropods
insensate ~ lacking physical sensation
carapace ~ the hard upper shell of a turtle or crustacean
vermiform ~ resembling a worm
viands ~ food items
screed ~ a tedious piece of writing

Heart Attack-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack

  By Riley | July 29, 2010 - 4:02 pm | Food & Drink
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Friendly’s Restaurant has released a new behemoth of a sandwich. In the television commercial featuring the Grilled Cheese Burger Melt, a man is teasing a woman with the sandwich, finally giving her a bite. Gone are the days when a grilled cheese sandwich could be enhanced with pieces of ham and a cup of soup; now the grilled cheese has become the bun for a beef pattie and toppings.

friendly's

It’s difficult to think that this sandwich was not inspired by KFC’s Double Down, a sandwich with bacon, cheese, and Colonel’s sauce with two pieces of fried chicken replacing the bun, a sandwich that received a lot of criticism when it came out several months ago.

double down

These novel sandwiches/heart attacks on a plate are nothing new though. Burger King has been offering the BK Stacker, a standard burger which can be tailored to the customers liking by the addition of more patties. The menu features double, triple and quad stackers, but if you request any amount of patties, they’ll make it for you. John McCall of East Longmeadow, Mass. Got himself an Octo-stacker:

food coma induction

But the one restaurant that always seems to be offering the newest latest greatest sandwich is Wendy’s. These sandwiches never seem to stay on the menu too long – or at least not in the spotlight. But what’s really funny is that they are listed on the website as “Old-Fashioned Hamburgers.”

Wendy’s features the ¾ lb. Triple with Cheese, the Bacon Deluxe Triple, and perhaps my favorite idiomatic term for a burger, the Baconator. When I think Old Fashioned sandwiches, I think a pattie on bread with lettuce and tomato.

At 1500 calories, the Grilled Cheese Burger Melt may be the most likely new sandwich to induce a heart-attack. But, if you’re looking to take in calories from something that’s been around for a while, reach for a Whopper. The triple with cheese has 1250 calories.

classic

Once you take a bite, though, you won’t care about how many calories are in it. It is, after all, the greatest burger available in fast food.