I am probably much more pleased with myself for this than I deserve to be, but what is a food blog good for if not self-aggrandizement? Nothing as far as I’m concerned.
So here’s the story: I made too much ratatouille. Much too much ratatouille. My dinner guests ate ratatouille. I ate ratatouille. I ate more [...]
Archive for the ‘Philosophy’ Category
Ratatouille Pasta and the Art of Improvisation
Posted in Home Cooking, Philosophy, Tips, Vegetarian, tagged eggplant, pasta, ratatouille on August 21, 2008 | No Comments »
Good idea, bad idea.
Posted in Philosophy on August 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I don’t like fast food; I don’t like fast food companies; and I avoid spending my money at fast food restaurants.
I am, I believe, an opponent of fast food.
That said, Los Angeles’s recent move to place a one year moratorium on the construction of new fast food restaurants raises some serious questions in my mind:
1. [...]
Favorite Technique: Toasting Nuts
Posted in Philosophy, Raves, Tips, tagged nuts, pine nuts on July 29, 2008 | No Comments »
I really believe that there are a couple very simple things you can do to make your food seem startlingly more sophisticated. Not to make you a better cook, per se, but I also strongly believe that paying attention to what you’re cooking — to how it looks, to texture, to flavor balance — is [...]
Fiesta for one? Holy Guacamole!
Posted in Home Cooking, Philosophy, Quick, Raves, Recipe, Tips, Vegetarian, tagged avocados, guacamole on July 17, 2008 | 5 Comments »
This post is about two things I really enjoy: eating alone and guacamole. So…the best of both worlds, logically, would be eating guacamole alone. Yet, guacamole seems like a social dish; you have it at parties, with margaritas, at the beach. It is not time-consuming to make, and yet, I like to chat with someone [...]
10 Best Foods (except for those other 10)
Posted in Philosophy on July 1, 2008 | No Comments »
I am fascinated by the most emailed list at nytimes.com, and this week it actually has a food-related article at the top, which comes from their blog “Well.” I am a big fan of Well and its author, Tara Parker-Pope who actually takes the time to respond to many of the comments she gets. And, [...]
The Perils of Plenty
Posted in Philosophy, Rants, tagged contamination, local on June 11, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Is anyone really surprised that a batch of tomatoes contaminated with salmonella has made its way into the food supply? We’ve seen this before, and we’ll see it again. There are plenty of arguments against industrial farming with decent rebuttals to many of them. An indisputable fact about current agribusiness, however, is that sometimes it [...]
An aioli (mayonnaise) delay
Posted in Philosophy on May 13, 2008 | No Comments »
Apologies, apologies, readers. I fully intended to post about how to make mayonnaise today, to follow up Phil’s post from yesterday. Unfortunately, I’m at home in Berkeley, and our family’s computer is almost 10 years old, and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to upload the photos. And I have [...]
Phil’s Challenge
Posted in Home Cooking, Philosophy, Tips on April 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Oh my god! It’s interactive! It’s Web 2.0!!! We’re in the mother f’ing blogosphere!!!! WAGAWGAWGAWGAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!
***SLAP***
Sorry, I’ll try to control myself, but one of the fun aspects of blogging is being able to interact with our oh-so-enormous readership. So here we go:
Phil commented on my sriracha post with the following challenge:
“A reader challenge for the Food [...]
Brunch time? egg-cellent.
Posted in Philosophy, Raves, Restaurant Reviews on March 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I have to apologize for having been so remiss about posting lately. I haven’t been cooking as much as usual in the last week or so, mostly because I’ve been doing a lot of my eating this week at egg, the little restaurant-that-could. I am again somewhat reluctant to write anything that could be construed [...]
Why People Don’t Cook - Reason #1 of 45,524,233
Posted in Home Cooking, Philosophy, Rants on March 7, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I created a “Rants” category for posts as soon as we put this site together, because (1) a good, solid rant is one of my favorite activities and because (2) ranting is probably the number one reason why people start blogs. Commence rant now:
We hear plenty about how Americans are tempted into “convenience foods” and [...]
