From the category archives:

Food

This took 3 evenings to make. 1 to braise the ribs, 1 to make the sauce and 1 to make the pasta and put it all together.
The short ribs were first seared, then braised in mirepoix, wine, stock, salt, and pepper for three hours. The liquid was saved (fat removed), and the ribs were [...]

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So, earlier in the week I saw these posts in my google reader.

Of course, I had to give it a try.  If for no other reason than to gross out Steve & Leigh.
I’m not going to post photos of the baking process, the ‘wet’ ingredients look kinda nasty when you’re putting this together.
But here’s the [...]

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Chinese Food…

by charles on July 4, 2009

Some things I saw out and about.

Asshole Sauce?  Eww.
Speaking of Ewwww

A five gallon bucket of Duck Sauce? *shudder*  I could read the ingredients from where I sat, it’s loaded with HFCS.
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Auspicious Beginnings

by charles on January 2, 2009

On the first of January 2009 I found myself searching an external hard drive trying to find a photo, at first I couldn’t find the folder and was starting to panic, after a bit of digging I found the folder but not the photo…
While searching through this folder I found another, one that had no [...]

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Vanilla Bean-Cream Cheese-Buttercream

by charles on October 14, 2008

Oooh.
Yes, you should go “Oooh.” and when you taste this you should go “Mmmmmmm, oooh, unnnngg mmmm.”
Yeah, it’s that good.
Ingredients:
2 8 ounce bricks of Philly cream cheese at room temp.
1 stick of butter at room temp
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 Madagascar vanilla bean (sliced, and seeds scraped out)
7 to 9 ounces [...]

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Brown Butter Carrot Spice Cake

by charles on October 14, 2008

Yeah that’s a mouthful, imagine if I had included “With Vanilla Bean Cream Cheese Buttercream” but I’m saving that for a separate post because it’s so damn tasty it deserves its own damn write up!
So carrot cake, people either love it or hate it, I’m in love with it, but it has to be well [...]

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Pistachio & Chorizo Cake

by charles on October 13, 2008

Recently David Lebovitz posted a version of this recipe that he adapted from Chocolate & Zucchini.
I have to say this is an excellent savory snack cake, perfect for afternoon nibbles, cocktail parties and picnics. I made it for a day with the family and put it out with cheeses and meats for everyone to [...]

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Hearty, Healthy, Wholesome, Whole Wheat 3 ways

by charles on September 28, 2008

I recently acquired a copy of The Breads of France which I’d long ago added to my wishlist, but never received. Cut forward a few years I’ve completely forgotten about this book and one day my coworker Mimi brings in some books that she was getting rid of and this was one of them, [...]

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Healthier Eggplant Parmesan

by charles on September 9, 2008

So you love Eggplant Parmesan, but you’re on a diet… Or you can’t have fried foods because of your blood pressure, cholesterol or other Doctor restricted $(#*%#()_ food groups.
Here’s an eggplant parmesan that omits the breading and frying, replaces it with herbs and roasting, and adds some spinach for extra vitamins. It’s a healthier [...]

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Stock Options…

by charles on September 8, 2008

If you’re like me and use stocks and broths to enhance the flavor of other foods more often than using them to make a soup you may find yourself, as I do, with boxes of broth in the fridge that inevitably go bad before you can use them up.
I found an easy solution to my [...]

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