just in time
Between the ghost peppers, the habaneros, and the serranos, this fall is going to be quite interesting. I think jacking up some desserts will be the first order of business.
( You got capsicum in my choklit. )

pretend home
One of those typical individual-nature-of-experience things that happens in life.

There are about ten different recipes for my kind of northern Thai salads for every town there. Every time I look at a restaurant menu, it's not the one I hope for.

The Thai salad I take most seriously is made by members of the Rittiluechai family. Their ( Read more... )

it's too darn hot
ভোট-জলকীয়া
And then there's the weather …

Truthfully, with as unpleasantly warm as it's been here for the last several weeks, most of the plants in my garden have been … well, let's say reticent. With the one day of rain in the past week, some of the hibiscus have buds, but only one has blooms, and they're burnt around the edges, ( Read more... )

so very chill
I love when people hit me up with comparatively quick dishes that can be eaten cold. Using anything other than a slow cooker has been making me ill this summer, and not food-poisoning ill.
( Cold running a little hot. )

continuing education
Eating more chikin( Next learning project: Cuban comfort food. Part One: )

the disappointment
NO FRUIT PIES at the supermarket for π Day. It's upsetting to me.

(As though the fact that the pie is pecan is somehow going to stop me from eating it. Get real.)

been there, done that
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crock of shame
IT'S FUCKING
COLD
AND I'M
EXHAUSTED
So next month we do it FO' REALS.
(Meaning no cheap California Merlot with a kit.)

Working out an adaptation from someone else's adaptation of Julia Child (I usually do Craig Claiborne) to spare myself the public shame without resorting to buying a new cast-iron Dutch oven. I need to keep it kosher and ( Read more... )

get it in writing, Q

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I love black people!

And really, who, other than Diana Ross, could have beef - the puns write themselves - with Patti LaBelle?

next from the test kitchen
I'm hopping! From India to Thailand!

But I think this needs some cilantro, some bamboo shoots, some mushrooms, some lime leaves, some peppers and other stuff.
( Anything to make tilapia less… tilapia. )