Some excitement here tonight!

La Cyn and I were making dinner. I had pan-fried and roasted a delicious bit of hanger steak and La Cyn was doing the salad. She was in the midst of slicing up a tomato and had just asked me if I wanted it in wedges or to have the wedges sliced in half, I said "Halves," and she immediately sliced about half of the tip ( Read more... )

So this week we got these "butter making kits" in at work. It's basically a plastic jar about the size of a peanut butter jar, with a small spreading knife, ramekin dish, and some herbs if you'd like to make herbed butter. I said to Fearless Leader this morning, "I bet you that you're supposed to toss heavy cream in this thing and stand around ( Read more... )

Holy fuckballs, this was good.

From the NYT Cookbook (which, if you don't have a copy already, wtf is wrong with you?), this was my first time round with this particular recipe, and I already have modifications (my notes in italics and parens):

1 (1.5lb to 2lb) boneless pork loin, trimmed of surface fat; I had Ignacio cut the loin from the ( Read more... )

My Awesome Dad and the Pocket Doctor came down for Giftmas dinner on New Year's Day. I think this'll be a nice tradition to start. Instead of trying to coordinate getting together during actual Giftmas, we'll just have ours a week later. Much less stress ( Read more... )

( Dontcha wish your breakfast was hot like me? )

Hello people of the interwebthingynets! Remember me? Yes, it is me, I am still here, and I am reading every day, I'm just not saying anything. Why? Because every day is exactly the same, that's why. I get woken up way too early by a broken cat every morning, and I either then begin getting ready for work, I begin sitting in front of the computer ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago, the lovely and amazing pescana and I took a walk over to the Uptown neighborhood to get some Vietnamese food for dinner. On the way we stopped at a couple of liquor stores in hopes of finding my new favorite whiskey; while we had no luck with that, pescana did find a good tequila (or as I call it "takillya" because tequila and I are NOT friends ( Read more... )

A month? Bless me my ducklings for I have been absent, it's been nearly a month since my last entry ( Read more... )

As promised, last night's tomato soup.


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I am again ungainfully unemployed. And quite delighted about it, thank you. Now I can go back to my normal eating habits and lose the 7lbs I put on whilst working there ( Read more... )