I just stuffed some crusty rolls with mussels and leeks for lunch. That was all right.
― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link
i really want to try mark bittman's sausage/grape thing, but i fear the cholesterol.
― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― ampersand, hearts, semicolon (cis), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 22:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 04:59 (seventeen years ago) link
all this while cooking up an Uber-lasagne veggie lasagne for tomorrow. Cooking really helps me completely forget work troubles (even if I am actually cooking some up)
― Porkpie (porkpie), Friday, 3 November 2006 22:00 (seventeen years ago) link
also, marinated tofu with soba noodles and mixed veggies, which is a regular thing to make chez moi, because it's awesome. (soy sesame marinade)
oh, we made this great salad last week too--mixed greens with cucumbers, shredded carrots, goat cheese, dried cranberries, and slightly-candied almonds (you toast slivered almonds up with a bit of sugar so they stick together in little crunchysweet clusters). and easy homemade vinegrette.
― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 6 November 2006 18:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 6 November 2006 19:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― jergins (jergins), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 04:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Meg Busset (Mog), Friday, 10 November 2006 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 11 November 2006 22:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Monday, 13 November 2006 01:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― lk (lawrence kansas), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jaq (Jaq), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:55 (seventeen years ago) link
Tomorrow: cuban sandwiches.
― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Friday, 17 November 2006 02:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Beth S. (Ex Leon), Saturday, 18 November 2006 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Saturday, 18 November 2006 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jaq (Jaq), Saturday, 18 November 2006 22:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 19 November 2006 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 20 November 2006 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link
boil some lo mein noodles
then in a big frying pan:fry some chorizo, then add - thin sliced onion, sliced garlic, a couple of teaspoons of taiwanese bbq sauce, an eighthed tomato, some soy sauce. Let that fry for a bit. after a wee while add to the pan a tin of smoked tuna slices and some ketjap manis.
Add the noodles to mix.
Top with a fried egg.
If I hadn't spent the weekend in San Sebastian, it would have been the tastiest thing I'd eaten in a long while.
I'm drinking a pretty bloody good Chilean cab sauv with it too, ahhhh bliss.
― Porkpie (porkpie), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link
Had to come up with a starter special at short notice, and the walk-ins were nearly empty. Ended up cooking some lasagne sheets and cutting circles out of them, blitzing up a dressing of chilli, thyme and rosemary and making a sort of lasagne with slice of black pudding, layer of pasta, dressing, slice of goats cheese, layer of pasta, dressing, repeat. Quite nice, actually.
― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 11:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 4 January 2007 00:17 (seventeen years ago) link
I'd make the Dipsea Cafe's eggs benedict tomorrow, but I've suddenly gotten paranoid in the last few days about my heart blowing up.
― Joe Isuzu's Petals (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 4 January 2007 00:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 4 January 2007 00:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 4 January 2007 10:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link
seven-grain pancakes with pomegrante sauce and a reduction of pear syrupturkey-rice soup w. ginger & lemongrasschocolate mint "frog" tort (aka I know how to use a cookie cutter)congo barsapple spice cake with molassas-bourbon frosting apple-cinnamon cobblerclementines and meyer lemon lemonadechristmas puddings with non-alcoholic brandy-butter (earl grey tea, spice sachet, lime juice makes a decent sub) corn and cherry sconescranberry clafoutibanana cream pudding in chocolate shellscherry and sweet-cream blintzeslebeküchen
at home i've been on a fake Poly-chinese kick, trying to emulate all the '60s vintage Tiki restaurant menus of my culinarily-deprived youth. So far I've done a decent (improved on citrus chicken) blood-orange squab with chow mein, a creamy, cinnamony, rendition of American strip-mall sweet-and-sour soup, some phony pork curries.
For Christmas presents, I made three types of catsup (Amish apple, smoky pepper, cardamom brown) two whole-grain mustards, and a vinagery BBQ sauce. They were mostly well-received, but apparently I made the mustards too spicy for my midwestern friends.
Tomorrow I'm gonna try to do a whole menu from Suzanne Goin's Sunday Suppers at Lucques which is rapidly becoming one of my favorite books.
― rems (x Jeremy), Thursday, 4 January 2007 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link
I made a reasonable attempt at chocolate mousse for dessert on New Years Day. It followed Bream roasted on top of peppers and and potatoes tossed with thyme, the pan then swilled out with white wine and saffron water before being severely reduced for sauce.
― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 4 January 2007 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― lk (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 4 January 2007 20:11 (seventeen years ago) link
But there was Sandbox ILC!
― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 4 January 2007 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matt (Matt), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 6 January 2007 09:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Saturday, 6 January 2007 12:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 6 January 2007 18:48 (seventeen years ago) link
Also, any ideas where I can buy cheap duck or goose fat for confit? On a Sunday in Los Angeles? Surfas doesn't seem to have any... neither did the Culver City Whole Foods.
― remybean (bean), Saturday, 6 January 2007 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link
can't decide what starch to serve alongside. couscous w/mint?
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 7 January 2007 15:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 7 January 2007 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 8 January 2007 00:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― remybean (bean), Monday, 8 January 2007 03:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 8 January 2007 10:04 (seventeen years ago) link
Who follows their cravings when cooking? I had a fish craving bad, hence the pasta. I'm a big believer in listening to the body's cravings.
― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 8 January 2007 10:58 (seventeen years ago) link
We were at our local fabulous asian market Saturday and got a 1 lb. slab (about 1/2" thick and 6"x8") of the most beautiful sashimi grade maguro. I sliced it in 3, coated with a mix of black and white sesame seeds and seared it in a blazing hot cast iron skillet for 2 minutes per side. It was divinely rare. Served with rice/green peas/toasted pine nuts as a side.
― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 8 January 2007 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 8 January 2007 23:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 00:08 (seventeen years ago) link
fingers x'ed Matt!
Company pitch-in today, so whipped together greek potato salad (redskins, feta, chopped green olives, w/ olive oil/lemon/black pepper dressing), parsley/tomato/mint/couscous dressed w/ olive oil/lemon/sea salt, and a pan of brownies.
― Jaq, Friday, 24 August 2007 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link
Marinated some top sirloin in lime juice, sriracha, and toasted sesame oil (no chipotles in the house and wanted some kind of spicy smokiness w/ the lime) for about 15 min, stabbing with a fork all over and flipping around 3-4 times. Dried off and grilled and was very spicily excellent.
― Jaq, Monday, 27 August 2007 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link
smoked bacon & kale over pasta. the smokiness of the bacon is very overpowering, i may have used to much! hahaha like that's possible.
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 02:30 (seventeen years ago) link
Mrs Coastaltown has just cooked plum crumble, which was throroughly fabulous. I'm susbsisting on butties at the moment, long work stint.
― Matt, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link
Happy culinary new year!
― Casuistry, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link
Oops look here instead. Stupid cut and paste.
― Casuistry, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 18:40 (seventeen years ago) link