Homemade Basil Pickles
This has been in my drafts forever. I am a very bad cult leader, not sharing my wisdom; I will endeavor to do better. So, it turns out that once you’ve got a good recipe to start with it’s pretty...
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It Turns Vegetables Into Food
Oh really, she says? Yes, really. Salad dressing: Two ounces of a good olive oil, About 3/4 of an ounce of balsamic vinegar, One clove of garlic, Half a lime, and Some powdered wasabi. And small mason...
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Street Meat
Taste is so tightly bound to memory that I have a hard time believing that I can appreciate or even even taste food on its own, in a void of context. I wonder how many of my likes, dislikes, loves and...
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Cast Iron Cooking
Oh, blarg, why do I abandon you so. I have been neglecting this space in favor of the twitters, whose twits are legion, and who is so, so uncomplicated. Also I’m trying to start a business here and...
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A Proposed Beverage
Pour two ounces of Sortilège into a tumbler. Fill with unfiltered apple cider and stir with a cinnamon stick. Serve quite cold. I am going to call this a Canadian Autumn, I think.
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Into The Vide
This week’s mad science news is that I’m starting to experiment with sous-vide cooking now that I’ve gotten around to building myself the necessary tool to do that, uninspiringly referred to as a...
View ArticleCafé Glacé
I own two French presses, I have a reasonably competent electric grinder and by and large that makes my morning coffee a pretty pleasant thing. I usually brew my coffee in the smaller of the two; as...
View ArticleCoffee Infused Bourbon
I’ve had this in the queue for a while, not sure why it didn’t get put up. Well, here it is. Get a bottle of a good bourbon. I’m partial to Woodford Reserve, myself, but there’s clearly room for...
View ArticleBaking Bacon
You need a Silpat nonstick cooking mat, a baking tray, an oven and tongs. Turn the oven up to 400, but you don’t need to let it finish preheating; this starts from cold. Silpat goes on the tray, bacon...
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How Does Anyone Work In These Conditions
A little while ago, the espresso machine in our office broke down. This doomsday scenario is, and I say this without the least bit of hyperbole, the most catastrophically dire situation that can exist...
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Home Coffee Infrastructure
We can take as a given that good coffee is to pod coffee as good people are to pod people. Since seasonal sales are making the rounds, I thought I’d tell you about how I make coffee at home. It’s not...
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