Good morning. I hope you got some time to rest and reflect this weekend, to sit with where we’re at in the world, and where we might go. I hope the conversations you were able to have at the kitchen table were good, even if they were just with yourself, and I hope that this week brings you grace and hope in equal measure, even against a backdrop of anger and anxiety.
I believe cooking can help. Both the activity of it and the fellowship it provides — again, even if you’re just cooking for yourself. It is difficult not to become a little cheerful, for instance, making Ali Slagle’s puckish new recipe for crispy sour cream and onion chicken (above)
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 22:43 (three years ago) link
NO
― contorted filbert (harbl), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 23:52 (three years ago) link
haha what a sanctimonious twat
― crystal-brained yogahead (map), Thursday, 18 June 2020 01:03 (three years ago) link
the fellowship it provides — again, even if you’re just cooking for yourself.
yeah like the yale club for losers
― j., Thursday, 18 June 2020 04:39 (three years ago) link
Tracer, is that Sam Sifton? Please link to your hate reads so we can all hate read them.
― Virginia Plain, Thursday, 18 June 2020 04:49 (three years ago) link
Lol yes it is and yes I will - however I like to think my judicious hate-filled editing really conveys him at his least attractive
here's the column in questionhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/08/dining/what-to-cook-right-now.html
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 18 June 2020 08:08 (three years ago) link
‘Puckish new recipe’
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 18 June 2020 10:46 (three years ago) link
so glad i found the sifton hate club, dude writes like a youtube yoga influencer
― adam, Thursday, 18 June 2020 11:02 (three years ago) link
sam sifton you never disappoint when i am looking for innocuous things to hate
So, maybe: a kind of Eastertime stir-fry of onion, shredded cabbage, apples and ham? It’s pretty simple, a hack of an old Nigel Slater recipe someone once sent me: Melt some butter in a large pan, and sweat the onions in it, with a clove or two of garlic, if you have any./
please sir, can you spare some garlic?
― superdeep borehole (harbl), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 15:11 (three years ago) link
can't stand the "clove or two of garlic" approach to cooking, imagine making a dish with 0.25 cloves of garlic per person, why bother putting any in at all? also feel annoyed every time I read/hear the phrase "a stir-fry" - you know it's going to have undercooked carrots, overcooked beansprouts, tinned water chestnuts, limp red pepper and taste of absolutely nothing.but yeah it's also bad writing
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 15:19 (three years ago) link
when I make some garlic infused oil for pasta I use 2-3 bulbs, cannot take people seriously who talk in units of cloves
― calzino, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 15:25 (three years ago) link
a whole bulb in curries at least, sometimes three depending on my supplies
― calzino, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 15:26 (three years ago) link
I don't know if my taste buds are knackered from smoking, but I cannot sense the taste of garlic on the 1-2 cloves in a recipe range.
― calzino, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 15:30 (three years ago) link
idk i could never be accused of under-seasoning my food but i could see using two cloves to make cabbage because i like the taste of cabbage, and i use 5 or so cloves in curry. but this it not about the garlic quantity it's about sam's ability to stuff every sentence he writes with these annoying and meaningless flourishes.
― superdeep borehole (harbl), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 15:31 (three years ago) link
I always imagine it's these so relaxed, we're-only-throwing-together-a-simple-supper dudes who would be simmering with barely contained fury if you were cooking in their kitchen and chose the wrong salad bowl.
― mahb, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 15:41 (three years ago) link
i have fantasized so many times about doing a podcast of his columns where i just read them in the most earnest midwest accent possible.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 20:13 (three years ago) link
But if you’ve got a little bit of gas left in your tank? How about putting together the very best charcuterie board (above) for dinner tonight?
― certified juice therapist (harbl), Thursday, 2 December 2021 00:53 (two years ago) link
emails from certain co-workers
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Thursday, 2 December 2021 02:28 (two years ago) link
harbl i just shuddered visibly
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 2 December 2021 09:46 (two years ago) link
surely homeopathic use of cloves has some benefit. Keeps fractions of vampires away at least?
BUt I do tend to use one whole bulb in a meal preparation.
I don't think UI have had the chance to work out what a hate read would be, spending too much time reading through part of what I want to read for itself and surrounded by loads of other possible great reads. Do you use a hate read as a palate cleanser or at least resetter?So you have a baseline to compare good writing to?I do remember reading a music journalist I cant read and Hilary Mantel in quick juxtaposition and thinking the quality difference was mammoth. But find it odd that anybody would have the time to actively hate read. Would be good to have the time to read everything one would actually want to. is there a level of masochism involved?
― Stevolende, Thursday, 2 December 2021 10:14 (two years ago) link
I tend to use a whole bulb of garlic at a time as well stevo, it's the key to immortality imo.
― calzino, Thursday, 2 December 2021 10:26 (two years ago) link
That’s not what John Retoul says
― mardheamac (gyac), Thursday, 2 December 2021 10:31 (two years ago) link
I've got the power to weaken the undead knave, just by breathing on him!
― calzino, Thursday, 2 December 2021 10:33 (two years ago) link
apparently when you crush garlic there is a chemical reaction that alters its cellular makeup and makes it very good for your health.
― calzino, Thursday, 2 December 2021 10:38 (two years ago) link