This weekend I got some meat from Stillman's Turkey Farm: oddly, no turkey, but I did get hot Italian lamb sausage, pork chops, and a whole chicken.

I roasted the whole chicken today using this simple recipe, and substituting two limes for a lemon. It came out amazing. I ate, literally, half the bird for dinner (that's about two pounds of chicken). ( Read more... )

"The Hood Diet", by Loer Velocity featuring Donnan Linkz
From Vegans of Color

Monday, Wednesday, Friday night takeout
The neighborhood McDonalds is the poor man's steakhouse
Chicken Fried Crown just a few doors down
give your small intestine new lining a frown
I've been there before and I'll probably go again
'cause it's right here in the hood, choices ( Read more... )

Dear Internet,

You see this? This is BACON MAYO -- emulsified bacon fat. This, on French fries, is my dinner. Fuck. Yes.


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So I've decided to make a change to my diet: I'm eating vegetarian (lacto-ovo), unless it's meat I've cooked myself or a special circumstance like I'm eating at one of Chris Schlesinger's restaurants. In practice, this means I'll be eating meat once, possibly twice a week.

Also, it means that when I do eat meat, I'm going to make sure it's a fucking ( Read more... )

From an article on food subsidies:


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I put together a nice spur-of-the-moment pasta dish tonight. Here's the recipe ( Read more... )

So I really love XM Radio. For instance, this morning, in my car, the Television song "Marquee Moon" was played. Holy cow, I haven't heard a song this good in ages. It sounds light years ahead of most music from 1977.

I also think I would kill to hear Dismemberment Plan cover this song. Too bad that will never happen.

I leave you with this:

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