Serious Eats - seriouseats.com

Daikon is a actually a winter vegetable and won't be in season at the markets right now.

I don't know if it's special, but I too just got back from the polls and am now making sweet potatoes topped with orange butter, and maybe a pumpkin muffin for dessert.

Also not giving away my political affiliation.

Breakfast was a chile relleno casserole made with roasted poblanos stuffed with minced thai chilies and feta, covered in a sriracha/cream cheese/egg batter, on a bed of tomato sauce with cumin and onion, topped with asiago. OMG so good.

I generally avoid processed foods, and I'm a vegetarian of 22 years who eats organic whenever possible. There's usually two meals a week where I cave a little.

Yesterday was my birthday though which means all bets are off. A very nice man came round and make me homemade gruyere caraway biscuits, and, with my permission, added applewood smoked bacon to half of them. They were incredible. They didn't need butter but I didn't let that stop me. I ate four.

I hate biting into a finger unless I get the knuckle :)

Mine is chardonnay. Good or bad, it all tastes like heartburn in a glass to me. Always disappointed at functions where it's the only white on offer.

Also apples (apple desserts excepted). Mealy and mundane. I can't remember who said it but I'm with whoever came up with, an apple is only good if you've never tried any other fruit.

The likelihood of Gwyneth having hot dog buns on hand is nil.

frozen shrimp rings
fruitcake
pannetone

To only eat environmentally responsible seafood, and not much of it either. It was last year's resolution too, although I admit I didn't make the best choice on every occasion--notably, farmed prawns in tempura. This year I'm going 100%, no excuses.

If anyone wants to join me, Monterey Bay Aquarium has a free iPhone app called Seafood Watch that's great for identifying sustainable options in restaurants and at the market.

Geoduck for sure. Just looking at it makes me queasy.

It's a celebration of all things food. It's pizza and burgers and New York with a bit of everything and everywhere else thrown in for good measure. It's recipes and rants and reviews. It's people who reconstruct entire restaurant meals from scratch and people who make muffins from mixes. It's a guide to farmers' markets and fast food. It's a platform for the most entertaining and informative food blogger ever: Kenji. It's comments that range from hilarious to mundane to cruel. It's elitist and lowbrow. It's absolutely addictive.

Soup! Tonight's dinner was a gorgeous mushroom bisque made with this summer's homemade spot prawn broth...the best of both seasons.

Totally cracking up at ByrdBrain and OTC617. Nice :)

Sriracha for sure, plus Matouk's Calypso Sauce. Absolutely delicious, and so hot it paralyzes my mouth.