tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36287452011-12-20T22:35:25.428-08:00Of she who is a gourmand and a gourmet.Deepfryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10256558529133406839noreply@blogger.comBlogger3841100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628745.post-18165448410085937072009-06-25T07:54:00.001-07:002009-06-25T07:54:28.286-07:00

rib sampleOriginally uploaded by deepfrylast weekend i hit two chicago food festivals: andersonville's midsommarfest and "North Center's" (new neighborhood name to me) Ribfest. although it was probably in the low 80s, once we got into the crowds of Ribfest, the temperature shot up to what felt like 90 degrees. it was a bit overwhelming and we made our selections based mostly on which booth had

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Filson glove repairOriginally uploaded by Moonshine and MatchesIn a slight deviation from my blog's regularly scheduled theme of things I cook and eat, I wanted to show you one of my dog's favorite treats: ~R's gloves. Last summer when ~R met the Digger for the first time, the dog demonstrated his enthusiasm for his new owner by chewing off the thumb of ~R's Filson gloves. After a few months of

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Springtime cocktailOriginally uploaded by Moonshine and MatchesI'm in the final week of spring break and it's been just delightful. i wish i had spring break once a month. there's nothing quite like two weeks without a schedule. i'm trying to get my outlines up-to-date for class, but even that is fairly relaxing . . . just hanging out at home, sitting at the computer with the dog by my side, me

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quinoa-stuffed pepper and cabbage saladOriginally uploaded by deepfryi'm on spring break this week and next and so i've been cooking, which i haven't really done since school started. it's wonderful! right now i'm waiting for butter to soften so i can make dessert to bring to my parents' house tonight. a few nights ago, i made this quinoa-stuffed red pepper dish and a cabbage salad. the quinoa

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breakfastOriginally uploaded by deepfrylast summer, i drove across the country from Eugene, Oregon to Chicago. Before cutting east, I left Eugene and headed south to California where I spent a few days with my aunt. She sent me on my way with two jars of jam and a box of stoneware (including the bowl that holds the brussel sprouts in my previous post). Lately I've been eating oatmeal for

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Tonight's dinner - Roasted brussel sprouts and pine nutsOriginally uploaded by Moonshine and MatchesThis is a dish I didn't make represented in a photograph I didn't take.I'm in the midst of writing this frustratingly large paper. Luckily, ~r cooks for me (all the time -- not just when I'm writing major papers). Last night, he really shined. He roasted a whole chicken, roasted brussel sprouts

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soupOriginally uploaded by deepfrywe have leftovers from last night's dinner: a delicious, thick, rich tomato sauce that R made. what could be better than using it to make a delicious (i hope) minestrone-style soup? i've got everything prepped and ready to go -- i'm just waiting for R's arrival with white beans and those little tubes of pasta allegedly called canneroni (what do i know? i'm jewish

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Dave's Killer BreadOriginally uploaded by deepfryYesterday i received an awesome birthday package full of Pacific Northwest goodies. Most exciting was this loaf of bread. Most people don't get that excited about a loaf of bread, but ask me what i miss most about Oregon and Dave's Killer Bread is right up there (after, naturally, my awesome friends who shipped said bread). How can you not love

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breakfast EOriginally uploaded by deepfryR and i spent this last weekend in a cabin up in northeastern wisconsin. the cabin, belonging to a friend's mom, has no electricity and no running water. it's got propane tanks that they've hooked up to a stove and to some lights in main room (i say "main room" like it's one of many but there's really the main room, the bedroom and a loft space). there's a

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hot out of the ovenOriginally uploaded by deepfrylast weekend, a friend (pictured) hosted a pizza party: he supplied dough, cheese and sauce; guests supplied toppings. it was a clever idea and you should all host similar parties. we had a countertop spread with various toppings and the host pushed out pizzas all night long. it didn't hurt that the crust was awesome and that the host had a lovely

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birthday cake!Originally uploaded by deepfrytoday's my birthday and when i arrived at school, my friends were waiting for me with a box of delicious swedish pastries (and a cup of coffee). i have great friends! the pastry pictured is some sort of coconut cinnamon roll thingy. it was deee-licious and much more exciting than my usual breakfast of yogurt. and i have two more pastries waiting for me

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sidesOriginally uploaded by deepfryOkay kids, it's been 15 months since my last post and now I'm in law school which means either (this is a two prong test):1. oh my god, i have no time! I have to write this stinkin' brief, start my outline and read a thousand pages by tomorrow; or2. i'm a student and, as such, have plenty of time to do stuff like spend five minutes writing a blog post.I'm going,

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office food Originally uploaded by deepfry how can something this gross be oh-so-good? one of my coworkers actually observe, reaching into the bucket for more, "this smells like my dog's vomit."i didn't know they still made these things. i remember my parents getting one at some point in the mid-80s and thinking that it was just about the coolest thing since sliced bread. ...actually,

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$100 sushiOriginally uploaded by deepfry last sunday, i wanted a quick dinner and had a hankering for sushi. ~r and i drove out to sushi domo . . . and it was closed. we headed back into town to sushi station . . . and it was closed. "Do you want to just get pizza at Mezza Luna?" he asked and I said no, suggesting we try Misako. . . which was open.Now, normally, when ordering sushi, one order

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borscht Originally uploaded by deepfry a certain beet-hating dining partner of mine was flattened by some sort of toxic, stomach-crunching illness over the weekend. i took advantage of the opportunity and made a big vat of beet borscht ("New York Deli Style," according to the Joy of Cooking, with some slight changes: broth instead of water, onion instead of garlic). i was naturally

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local dinner Originally uploaded by deepfry for just this one little week, r and i are eating only locally grown/raised food. our "local" means the state of oregon. pictured is one of our dinners. we've also had peppers stuffed with pork and feta, roasted chicken with mashed potatoes, some really awesome salads, lots of cheese sandwiches (Hideaway Bakery use "as many local ingredients" as

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E's dramatic tomato tart Originally uploaded by agfachrome25 we are firmly sitting in the middle of tomato season and the livin' is good. all i want to eat are tomatoes: tomato sauce, gazpacho, salsa, tomato sandwiches, salads, you name it. i went to l&s's house for a potluck last week and we had accidental Iron Chef Tomato Battle: most of the guests brought tomato-based dishes. I brought

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gross Originally uploaded by deepfry. after a four month hiatus, i return to blogland to announce that i just consumed an entire jar of gefilte fish (in liquid broth, NOT jelly) over three days, day one being the first day of passover. i was out of horseradish but found a jar of jalapeno jelly in the back of my fridge. turns out it's a deeeelicious topping for gefilte fish. it also all

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This year was my first ever Thanksgiving away from family. i was a bit nervous about it, but, while i missed the fam, i had a lovely time. That april came in from bend certainly added to the fun of the holiday weekend. Thanksgiving was so much fun, in fact, that we did it twice.Part One:Thursday night, april and i went to bruce and ron's for thanksgiving dinner. we brought appetizers and soup: a

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yuppie crack: fine meats and cheeses Originally uploaded by deepfry. with a pile of recipes to mark-up and a house full of distractions, i had no choice today but to head to Provisions to do work. it was roughly lunch time so i figured i should get some food. i ended up with a sort of Atkins-gone-wild meal: beet salad and, pictured, a meat and cheese plate. sopressato, prosciutto salato

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i'm at my favorite place to study and its bustling with holiday shoppers. thankfully, not a peep of christmas music to be found in provisions -- which pretty much forever secures my love for the place.at a table across from me sits a girl who must be about seven years old. she is eating a giant chocolate chip cookie. or attempting to do so. her two (or maybe four, actually) front teeth are

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favorite post-dinner party breakfast Originally uploaded by deepfry. as soon as i get my pictures up, i'll blog about my wonderful thanksgiving dinner. for now, since, i'll post a photo of my breakfast from a few days ago: cold, leftover artichoke dip with crackers or olive ciabatta. mmmmm.......artichoke dip so good that my cat will eat it. uhm, not that one should necessarily rely on

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dinner. Originally uploaded by deepfry. as my regular readers (i.e. my mother) know, sometimes my cooking activities lean towards the lesser end of the culinary spectrum. last night i did some preliminary thanksgiving shopping at Trader Joe's and Albertson's. This year is my first thanksgiving away from the family. Luckily, i've been invited to what will be a fabulous dinner with good friends

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buuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...............received a very thoughtful last minute invite to a gathering of foodies and wine nerds last night. i had committed earlier that day to a night of work on the final (group) project for one of my courses, but it was in my longterm Eugene foodie interest to attend the party. and besides, i have a weak will when it comes to good food and drink. okay, this late

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last night we consumed Lou Malnati's pizza, sent frozen and packed in dry ice by my wonderful and caring mother. At the very same moment, 2500 miles away, my parents and my brother were also eating a Lou Malnati's pizza (probably with sausage and onions, maybe garlic). Image that. What synergy!I had a few friends over and we all enjoyed our bite-sized slices. Because I'm a selfish bastard, I ate

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I've eaten at House of Noodle, the Vietnamese and Chinese place down the street from my house, two nights in a row, both times with lovely company. I'm fighting a cold and if I eat pho at least daily, I might just beat that cold down. I think I might go there for dinner again tonight, if only to support them. I'm a bit afraid that House of Noodle isn't doing very well. On both Wednesday and

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fall omelette Originally uploaded by deepfry. i am currently enjoying a delightful overstuffed, well-done fall omelette. leeks and rainbow chard from the market, cheese from the fancy cheese shop and mushrooms from my downstairs neighbors who picked them yesterday. and, er, well, fake sausage. i love fall produce for its colors, its heartiness and its versatility. anything that is perfect

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delivery! Originally uploaded by deepfry. my mom rocks! look what i got in the mail. two frozen chicago style deep dish pizzas, which are now safely tucked away in the freezer. she sent it to my office so it wouldn't sit all day defrosting. doug, in the mailroom, put the pizzas (in a giant box) into the loading dock freezer and duct taped it shut since things have disappeared from that

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ramen Originally uploaded by deepfry. out of focus but you get the idea. miso with a variety of stuff thrown in the pot: seaweed, pork, corn, noodles, sprouts and who knows what else. i shamefully was unable to get through the entire bowl. sigh. i'm getting weak in my old age. this is from Toshi's, by the way. on pearl and 15th. if you go at lunchtime, prepare to wait. and wait, indeed.

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food blog hookup Originally uploaded by deepfry. oooh, i just got home from the new and wonderful gourmet grocery store just down the street from me. it is now my Local Grocery Store. a dangerous dangerous thing when the nearest grocery store sells sopressata with hand-stitched casing, rounds of epoisse and so forth. i could drop $50 in the blink of an eye. without even thinking.

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the best thing about making soup is just how easy it is. put ingredients in pot. cover with stock. wait an hour. eat.but i think i'm pushing it tonight. i just put the following into a pot:green tomatoacorn squashtofuchickpeasblack beanstomato sauceleeksbroccoli...and then i covered it with stock. report to follow.REPORT:ooh, hullo! soup is so tasty. it tastes vaguely like tortilla soup, despite

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i am discovering that i am totally non-functional before i've had my morning coffee. we're talking COMPLETELY non-verbal, incapable of operating light machinery, barely able to stand upright.is this a problem?

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versusIt's a Saturday night. I just put a brisket in the oven. The timer is set for 4 hours. I have a paper to write. It must reach at least 1500 words. Who will finish first? Me or the brisket?Updates from our embedded journalist17:40hrwordcount: 675brisket: baking18:23wordcount: 1,245 but no end in sight, certainly not 300 words from now! curses!brisket: baking, audibly simmeringFinal

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i'm making banana chocolate chip bread. i was cracking the eggs into to the mix. from a dozen Cherry Lane eggs. i went to crack the last of four eggs and it was hard-boiled! to be clear: one of my dozen eggs was hard-boiled. i promise and swear on all that is sacred to me that i definitely did not hard-boil that egg and put it back in the egg carton. it came that way. hard-boiled. what the????so

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wholesome breaky Originally uploaded by deepfry. after last night's extravagance, i was compelled to have a virtuous breakfast. frankly, it was only that i went running that i was able to eat anything at all -- when i woke up, i was still pretty stuffed from dinner. at any rate, i put this little dish together. it definitely ranks up there as one of my all-time best quick and easy

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grilling Originally uploaded by deepfry. whew! caught up to last night! when i joined friends for a lovely bbq. we grilled a pile of veggies from the market, a few steaks, some shrimp with creole sauce and a slab of tuna. we also had couscous salad, arugula salad, green salad, gazpacho, beer and wine. and for dessert, a rasberry pie and a blueberry peach cobbler. we do know how to do it

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about to be frosted Originally uploaded by deepfry. because i'm a good friend, i took it upon myself to make lesli her dream birthday cake: lots of frosting, lots of reese's peanut butter products. the end result was a bit obscene, but in the best possible way. the filling, a mixture of peanut butter frosting and smashed peanut butter cups, was, as you can see by the photo, almost as

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summer Originally uploaded by deepfry. although i would never leave work early on a beautiful friday afternoon in late summer when some friends are passing through town on their way out east, last week i left work early because it was a beautiful friday afternoon in late summer and some friends were passing through town on their way out east. shhh...don't tell! at 3:30pm, i snuck out of

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Mr. Pork Chop Originally uploaded by deepfry. i biked across Iowa with 15,000 of my nearest and dearest. in its 34th year, RAGBRAI (Register's Annual Greater Bike Ride Across Iowa) is kind of a combination of State Fair, beer garden and bike ride. it is definitely a ride, not a race. to put it mildly. biking between 50 and 100 miles a day means you can eat with abandon. and wow, do those

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i got the super special food lovers tour of portland last july on my way out of town, care of mike z. the highlight of the trip was absolutely the opportunity to sample the very dark dark chocolate in the temperer at Alma's. one spoonfull each (double dipping not allowed!). it was divine. i would've rather just stuck my entire head under the flowing dark chocolate, but that would've been

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dinner Originally uploaded by deepfry. i've had a slew of amazing meals since i last blogged. the Food Tour of Portland, sweet corn in Iowa, southern bbq and much much more. but only a dinner as special as tonight's is apparently worthy of a blog entry. i started with the best of intentions. a light salad of tomatoes and cucumbers from my CSA (community supported agriculture: a weekly box

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wow, you know what's really tasty?carrots dipped in peanut butter. for sure. mmmmm.....

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full grill Originally uploaded by deepfry. This 4th of July, my friends and I celebrated the founding of our country in much the same way that probably 90% of our fellow countrypersons celebrated: we grilled meat and then watched people blow shit up. I had a fantastic time! To honor the beautiful diversity of this great country, we cooked up what could only be considered a melting pot of

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in an effort to prevent myself from eating all the crappy food in my house while i write papers in the coming, well, year and a half, i am in the process right now of eating all the crappy food in my house while i write a paper.does this count for anything?oops. out of chocolate chips. must go grab another handful.

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One of my many sleuthful (new word!) librarian friends found the recipe for the amazing and wonderful bread pudding (requires scrolldown) that I had in New Orleans. We're planning our bread pudding dinner now. Report to follow.

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Coop's menu Originally uploaded by jammies. Last week New Orleans hosted the American Library Association. I'm a librarian. So I went to the conference. It was New Orlean's first post-Katrina conference and, wow, they pulled out all the stops. When I wasn't in conference meetings, presentations and discussions, I did my best to get out and sample the local fare. Okay, maybe it was the

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see more gnocchi photos. Originally uploaded by deepfry. last week, my friends and i gathered to make gnocchi, inspired by a late night viewing of Lidia Matticchio Bastianich's cooking show a few weeks back. frankly, i was disappointed that at no time during the cooking process did either of lidia's well-fed grown children "coincidentally" stop by to recommend wine, reminisce about

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market Originally uploaded by deepfry. yesterday i went to the grocery store and came home with enough food to keep me alive for about seven months (there could be a blizzard that traps me in my apartment - you just never know), so when i walked down to the farmer's market this morning, i told myself that i would only get something if it was absolutely necessary. no reckless produce

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best raw cake batter EVER. Originally uploaded by deepfry. last week i made a cake for erin's birthday. it was a major feat, not for the complexity of the recipe, but because it took EVERYTHING IN ME to resist eating the entire bowl of raw cake batter, the double batch of vanilla buttercream frosting and the strawberry filling made with strawberries from the farmers' market. i mean, look

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seder tools Originally uploaded by deepfry. passover's over (last night, at a potluck, i gorged myself on tortilla chips fried in lard). but i just got some lovely photos from my lovely photographer friend.pictured is the seder plate with assorted extras. that green blob is the matzah.i got my roasted lamb bone from Long's, the butcher shop in town. a fantastic place with high quality

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Eliz's Seder Leftovers Originally uploaded by agfachrome25. My Personal Professional Photographer (3P) is doing a series on austere lunches and this passover lunch seems to fit the bill. a container of leftover sephardic charoset (like an unformed powerbar with nuts, dates, honey and apples), two hard boiled eggs and matzah.i also finally, last night, delved into the world of the matzah

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report to follow, pending arrival of photos from my own personal professional photographer...and really, you should try to find one for yourself--they're quite nice to have around. and the shoelaces?, you ask. its all part of a top secret jewish ritual that i can't reveal to the unlearned masses. or maybe it's just that the laces on my brand new swank shoes broke. drat!

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brisket night-before prep Originally uploaded by deepfry. i realize that this photo will possibly:deeply offend any vegetarians who read this.possibly turn some carnivores into vegetarians.get me disowned because, for those who are sharp enough to differentiate powdered foodstuffs, it reveals the first step of the famous top secret brisket recipe, passed in a elaborate top secret ceremony

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oy Originally uploaded by deepfry. i hit the grocery stores today, so as to not have a repeat of previous years. buy your matzah (and related products) early and often. that's what i always say.i realize that i do not live in chicago, new york or philly. there may not be enough jews here for a minyan. but people, if you are going to set up your little holiday kosher section, make sure

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adulthoodOriginally uploaded by deepfry. so last week, as i was launching into hamantaschen round two, i decided that i needed The Best Equipment for the job--i wasn't going to mess this up. the recipe required that i make the dough in a food processor and so i took myself and my 20% off coupon to Bed, Bath and Beyond and got myself a real live grown-up cuisinart (7 cup bowl). it's the basic

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Reason #1 i miss ann arborOriginally uploaded by deepfry. ann arbor, home of many sports bars (more, it seems, each time i go back), is also home to Red Hot Lovers, a cramped and greasy chicago-style hotdog joint down the street from campus. if there is a heaven, i can promise you that it provides an unending supply of cheese fries from Red Hot Lovers. RHL is modeled on the traditional Chicago

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hamantaschen Originally uploaded by deepfry. trips to ann arbor and portland to report on but before that, Happy Purim! last night erin came over and we made hamantaschen...always a fun activity for the whole family! i used the New York Times Jewish Cookbook which seemed safe enough (New York? Jewish cooking? how can you go wrong??) but it was pretty disappointing. its a pretty little

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veggie tagine, in process Originally uploaded by deepfry. a few weeks ago, i cooked a tempeh tagine for some new parent friends of mine. i'm not exactly sure what i did, but the result was absolutely divine. honest, it blew me away how good it was. the dish was spiced perfectly and tasted delicious with the israeli couscous i made. i decided to give tempeh tagine another recipe-less whirl

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i have a very sweet cat named Goose. i adopted him six years ago and i like to think we get along swimmingly. he's low key, he only barfs occasionally, and pretty much keeps his poop in the litterbox. he's just aloof enough that when he's affectionate, i feel like he must really love me. and what, you must be asking, does this have to do with food?i'll tell you.yesterday, i went lap swimming for

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candy from anna!Originally uploaded by deepfry. cindy graciously asked me to participate in Wellfed.net, a new foodblog network. from this point on, you may refer to me as the candy librarian! a simple email message to the candy librarian and all of your candy mysteries will be solved!yes, i gave up sugar for a year but that was ages ago and i think it makes me a better sugar consumer.and look

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last night i bar hopped with Erin and Matt. we started at Jamesons, the new bar where Cafe Paradiso used to be. i had a dirty vodka martini, matt had a white russian and erin a beer. my drink was okay, though rather small...once i'd taken out the olives, it only filled about 1/3 the glass. and it was a bit too dirty for my taste. but the place has nice ambience and hip little bartenders. we went

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sometimes when you've--and when i say "you," i mean "i"-- are just getting home from the gym at a somewhat late hour and are just coming off a weekend of hosting a (very low maintenance) houseguest and throwing a wee appetizer pre-party, not to mention the fact that you've just washed just about every dish in your house, the preparation of dinner seems entirely daunting. any sort of preparation,

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the hanukah hostOriginally uploaded by deepfry. happy new years! this year, i was lucky enough to have nnnick come all the way from the east coast to celebrate new years and, ahem, bicker with me in the kitchen. as it turns out, we have very different cooking styles. namely, mine is right and his is wrong. ha! oh well, what can you do. i let him have his way a few times -- i mean, how can you

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extreme meat closeup Originally uploaded by deepfry. Last night, April joined me from Bend for a Very Special Chanukah Dinner, which featured three fatty, meaty, starchy dishes and one bottle of wine.Pictured is the somewhat obscene Extreme Meat Closeup of the brisket which was such a crap piece of meat that it needed about two hours longer of cooking than required. Luckily, the cranberry

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boiling cheesey and fizzy water Originally uploaded by deepfry. This weekend, I gathered with some buddies in a wood-panelled apartment for a fondue party. The theme, Après Ski, seemed fitting for a cold winter night in an apartment with a wood stove, loft bedroom and, again, wood panelling. We all put on our finest heavy sweaters, got out our fattiest foods and stuffed ourselves. Fondue

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Chanukah Hostess channeling Maccabees Originally uploaded by deepfry. My brother is, gasp!, dating a non-Jew, as we both, for whatever reason, have always done. Except for that Rachael girl he dated for a few weeks his sophomore year of college...oh, and I once dated a 1/2 Jew who was culturally about as WASPy as they come. At any rate, my mother has accepted, albeit with reservation, our

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supper Originally uploaded by deepfry. tonight i made Abby Mandel's Sweet and Sour Cabbage Soup (with tempeh instead of sausage). some may argue that for one person to consume this entire pot of soup (over the course of a week probably) is highly problematic in that deep cleansing kind of way. but i tell ya, i'm obsessed with the stuff. it's so so good! yes, most people with whom i

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The charming Mrs. Delicious tagged me for this Childhood Food Meme ages ago and i'm finally getting to it. The idea is to list the top five food memories of your childhood. so, here we go, in no particular order:fresh breadwhen i was young and my mom was a fulltime at-home-mother (my younger brother's entry into grade school eventually liberated her and she got a fulltime out-of-home job), she

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(warning: if you work for the cookbook industry, disregard this entire thing except the last paragraph.)as librarian blogger schwagbag points out, Google Print is an awesome source for recipes. most recipes are only a page or two, which is exactly how many pages you can see on Google Print of copyrighted materials. I'm a big fan of Epicurious.com and all, but there's something about searching

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friends over for dinner sunday night. i found out after shopping for a rather elaborate meal, that i was scheduled to work from 1-5pm. since these folks have a wee baby, they couldn't do that whole eat at 9pm thing. luckily the weather on saturday was rotten, so i just stayed in and prepped for sunday and actually managed to pull it off. good for me.fresh backed italian olive oil bread: a whole

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april stayed in my apartment and left one of those all-ingredients-included bags of salad along with a cooked chicken breast. a spinach, dried cherry, blue cheese and pecan salad. tonight for dinner, i ditched the pecans (ew!), added some sliced zucchini and cooked up the entire salad to serve over pasta. delightful! and so nutritious! if it wasn't for april's unintentional generosity, it

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IMG_3465 Originally uploaded by agfachrome25. several weeks ago, lesli, sara, erin, april, matt and i got together for dinner and a movie. whatever it was we ate was totally overshadowed by what we watched: Hamburger America, a movie profiling what it claims are eight of the best burgers in the country. while they were all intriguing, we were particularly interested in the Solly's Grill

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perfection Originally uploaded by deepfry. i love living in eugene instead of the big, loud, crowded, polluted city of chicago but a week spent there for my mom's birthday allowed me to indulge in my favorites that the city has to offer. my very favorite ever is to sit on the beach and have a coconut paletta. especially when the weather happens to be absolutely fantastic, rather dry for

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pickled Originally uploaded by deepfry. tonight for dinner, a and i had chicken sausage with mustard, mine with sauerkraut and a side of pickles. oh, and a charming glass of beaujolais-villages. this is what happens when you go for a long bike ride, stop at your friend's house and unexpectedly get fed delicious homemade gazpacho and blueberry peach pie but come home to a somewhat empty

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funnelcake Originally uploaded by deepfry. what better way to follow an evening of jello, chicken can-can (made with four kinds of creamed soup!) and processed meats than to head to Junction City, Oregon's very own Scandinavian Festival? This is no doubt the event of the year in this town of 5200 people. after a disappointing morning in which all of our festival buddies bailed, we rallied

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snowy chicken confetti saladOriginally uploaded by deepfry. this weekend's party was a success! our friends far exceeded my expectations, which were already pretty high. below are the contributions of the house; you can see what our guests brought here. everything was beautiful, if not entirely edible. and everyone was very nice about the fact that it was so hot in the apartment that the

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in the spirit of the 1950s housewife, it is 11am, the sandwich loaf is in the fridge and i'm having my first alcoholic beverage. just something to take the edge off a long day of cooking and cleaning.

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ingredients Originally uploaded by deepfry. "you know, it's much easier to be a good cook when you like what you're cooking."(overheard in staff lounge this morning)i was thinking about this and i realized that i don't even like the pineapple with emerald wreath. i mean, who would?!? no wonder i couldn't get it! luckily, i'd already decided to switch to Marje's Super Amazing Rainbow Jello

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in attempting to attone for last night's post-dinner fall from grace, i just ate an entirely virtuous lunch: tofu and vegetable maki (with brown rice! and braggs instead of soy sauce!) and an odwalla super protein original, which i'm currently obsessed with (liquid meals!). i expect that i'll be starving in about one hour. it's too bad i have no chocolate cherry bread with me.

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last night, we had an incredibly virtuous dinner followed by a profoundly unvirtuous dessert:dinner: poached salmon, steamed broccoli and brown rice, all covered in soy-sesame-ginger sauce. i was just back from a bike ride (and how lovely it is to come home from a workout with dinner just about ready) and this was a perfect protein-full but light dinner.dessert: beer and zingerman's

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my friend cindy can't make it to either retro food parties, but, in solidarity, she made a sandwich loaf. it's like a pug: so ugly, it's beautiful:it should be an inspiration to us all.

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cereal Originally uploaded by deepfry. here's an exciting glimpse of breakfast at the wittebreak or breakeveen household. cereal! with cat ass! yum! this photo is also called "Hi! I just got a digital camera and have to document everything that happens!"

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yesterday we went to cedars with lesli and sarah. they both got turkish coffee and after finishing their tasty beverages, the owner of the restaurant came over to read the grounds. lesli is or was or will be chased by someone who is wielding a large item. you can see, if you look closely (and squint a bit) an image of someone holding something over his/her head and chasing someone else, who is

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last night, fourteen fine folks in chicago got together and ate 47.6 lbs of Old Country Buffet. that's 3.4 lbs each. you'll note in a photo captured by one of the amateur competitive eaters, that, as it turns out, one heaping pile of food is only one pound. so almost three and a half plates each of mashed potatoes, fried chicken, creamy coleslaw, fries, peas, corn, jello,...this: three and a

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jello=3eliz=0i have great knife skills for an amateur, can turn out fantastic soups, breads, pastries, and whatnot, but i cannot for the friggin' life of me make a jello mold!! what gives?!?!switched to strawberry jello since the thought of lime jello is beginning to make me whoozy. doubled the quantity in order to fill the mold. completed jello and took to weekly queer as folk viewing.only one

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jello=2eliz=0fuck.attempted another pineapple in emerald wreath for a dinner party at strangers' house. take away rule: do not experiment on a dish for people you don't know! luckily, these strangers, with their beautiful restored 50 yr old stove and fridge, were impressed with the concept of jello mold enough to be forgiving of the actual dish.mistakes:1. grapes floated to what is actually the

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After completing the book meme that was going around awhile ago, Megwoo (from I Heart Bacon) and I discovered we both share a love for collecting cookbooks from the 40’s-70’s. We started talking and decided to co-host a virtual party… If you’d like to participate, here’s the deal:Either host a real party (we’re hosting ours on August 13th) and have your guests bring dishes from the 40’s-70’s OR

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jello = 1eliz = 0i overset the jello last night. by the time i got to it, there was no way i was going to pour it over anything, let alone pineapple rings and grapes. damnit. so instead, we brought the bowl of jello (much too set to transfer to a nice circular jello mold) and a container of coolwhip to dinner with us. everyone seemed happy despite the fact that we were eating just a boring old

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am currently attempting first jell-o creation to take to jon's. a lovely dessert to follow sea scallops, dontcha think? anyways, the dinner is in two hours, so the jello just went into the freezer to speed partial set it before putting in the pineapple rings and grapes. i did a little research and learned that using ice cubes instead of cold water is also an effective speed set method, but i

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today i hadfor breakfast: yogurt with flax seed and blueberry granolafor lunch: fake turkey on flax seed bread with organic cheese, carrot sticks and an organic appleand i haven't had dinner yet, because i'm waiting to go to yoga first.help! i'm becoming a hippie! if it weren't for the office coffee liberally doctored up with generic french vanilla creamer, i'd be in real trouble.

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What is your first memory of baking/cooking on your own?When I was little, my mom made fresh wholewheat bread every week. I'd always "help her" and when the dough was ready, she'd give me a small piece to make into my own loaf. Every time, I'd go hide under the kitchen table and eat half the ball of raw dough, thinking that she had no idea what i was up to. Eventually, I'd resurface with my

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i've been all across the world, more or less, since june 24th and here's my much abbreviated report and still no digital camera. i've got to get on that! i now have too many suitable options. gotta just go with one and stop thinking about it!ChicagoTaste of HeavenHopleaf dinner: The Hopleaf Tavern in chicago has expanded from a cozy little bar into a sprawling restaurant. a bunch of librarians,

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After completing the book meme that was going around awhile ago, Megwoo (from I Heart Bacon) and I discovered we both share a love for collecting cookbooks from the 40’s-70’s. We started talking and decided to co-host a virtual party… If you’d like to participate, here’s the deal: 1. Either host a real party (we’re hosting ours on August 13th) and have your guests bring dishes from the 40

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i went to subway for lunch today. first time i've been there in, geez, five years or so. and guess what, they now have five types of bread varieties of cheese what happened to the "wheat or white" and bland white cheese i knew and loved? since when do i have to make difficult decisions about parmesan oregano bread vs. italian cheddar and herb bread. sheesh! i dunno! and that enticing array

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i am slowly entering the market for a digital camera and i just found the Olympus Stylus 500, which has a special "Cuisine" setting. a camera setup specifically to take photos of food! ooh!! check it out: http://digitalcameras.engadget.com/entry/1234000340023752/.lust. too bad it isn't very pretty. not like the Fuju Finepix Z1, which i would get in a heartbeat if i were going on looks alone.

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1. Total number of (cook) books I’ve owned:ever? or currently? right now i count 55 cookbooks between a. and me, plus countless printout, cutout, scribbled down, bookmarked recipes stuffed in books, piled on shelves, etc.2. Last (cook) book I bought:Just like iheartbacon, i've recently been into these 50s cookbooks that feature "salads" that call for gelatin. but the most recent purchase is

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as i was leaving work today, i ran into the Documents Librarian at the bike rack. well, he was biking away. but he stopped. and waited for me. and when i got to him he said:"I know what you're doing this evening!"and i said: "What?"and he said: "You're wrapping something in bacon!"ah, how quickly good news travels in these parts. so, i wasn't planning on bacon-wrapping anything but once the seed

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hot off the massive diet coke and popcorn experience, we move directly into Bacon Wrapped Summer 2005. Inspiration hit several nights ago, while dining with jon on bacon-wrapped farmers-cheese-stuffed dates, a lovely pasta salad and grilled lamb, served with a charming, gosh, uh, well something red and good. given that most everything is better wrapped in bacon, it seems logical to declare this

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the other night, at the theater for star wars with a. and some friends, we ordered a large popcorn and a medium diet coke. the guy behind the counter handed over a bucket of popcorn the size of those three-flavored popcorn cans they always have at raffles. you know. the caramel, cheese and buttered flavored popcorn, neatly divided, the metal container decorated with teddy bears or santa claus.

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since i just briefly mentioned it at the end of a long and rambling post, i thought i would devote an entire entry to the rubber glove fingertip i found in my 360 Gourmet Burritos grilled vegetable burrito on monday evening while waiting for my plane at the Oakland Airport. given the recent spate of real and faked fast food hamburger fingertip sightings, this would have been comical if it wasn't

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