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Lunch for One: Saltie
I ate there yesterday. My "Scuttlebutt" sandwich was way too salty, and I like salt a lot. I ended up scraping the black olives and capers off, which I would never have guessed I would need to do.
Girlfriend-On-Vacation Food Pyramid
Um, no. That's how I (a woman) eat when my husband's not in town. Check your stereotypes -- he's the one who insists on "meals." Except that "bowls of cereal" and "peanut butter graham cracker sandwiches dunked in milk" would need to be on this pyramid for it to accurately reflect me.
Are You a Night Baker?
I am the midnight cookie baker. I find myself making thousands of late night cookies a year, especially right before Christmas, when I throw a cookie party for all of my friends. Between work hours and the commute home, plus precious sit-on-the-couch decompressing, I don't usually get the oven preheated until 9 at night. This week, I'm making several hundred cookies for a wedding. More sleepy, floury nights to come...
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Opening Soon: The Meat Hook at Brooklyn Kitchen
Would that be a cow from the Cow Parade art project in which cows are painted and placed all over various cities, including NYC?
Lunch for One: Saltie
I ate there yesterday. My "Scuttlebutt" sandwich was way too salty, and I like salt a lot. I ended up scraping the black olives and capers off, which I would never have guessed I would need to do.
Girlfriend-On-Vacation Food Pyramid
Um, no. That's how I (a woman) eat when my husband's not in town. Check your stereotypes -- he's the one who insists on "meals." Except that "bowls of cereal" and "peanut butter graham cracker sandwiches dunked in milk" would need to be on this pyramid for it to accurately reflect me.
Are You a Night Baker?
I am the midnight cookie baker. I find myself making thousands of late night cookies a year, especially right before Christmas, when I throw a cookie party for all of my friends. Between work hours and the commute home, plus precious sit-on-the-couch decompressing, I don't usually get the oven preheated until 9 at night. This week, I'm making several hundred cookies for a wedding. More sleepy, floury nights to come...
Do You Eat or Email First?
My computer opens first after I wake up. I eat breakfast when I get to work (I've got food -- cereal, PBJ, milk, frozen hash browns, etc. -- there).
Haiku Lunchbox
"Haiku Lunchbox" is a great name. I'll have to add this one to my RSS reader. I've been writing food poetry for my own blog for a while now, having food-related "poetry Tuesdays" whenever possible, but haiku has only made a couple of appearances.
My lunch today?
Peanut butter bed
Made for a tongue to lie in --
Such cold jellied sheets.
Cook the Book: '660 Curries' by Raghavan Iyer
When I first moved from Manhattan, KS (the "Little Apple") to work in NYC, I lived in Jersey City, NJ. That year, in about March of 2001, a friend living in Hoboken, NJ took me out to dinner at Panna II in NYC (6th and 1st Ave.). This tiny, affordable Indian restaurant (about the size of a subway car) was/is packed with tables and filled with strings of artificial lights hung over variously-patterned contact paper -- covering the ceiling and walls. Techno Indian music played loudly. When someone had a birthday celebration, the disco ball flashed.
I had my first banana pakora. I ate poori and samosa and naan. They brought out complimentary dishes of mango ice cream. I couldn't believe you could buy beer at the store downstairs and bring it up. I don't remember our entrees, but the table was covered in food and the whole bill wasn't much more than $10-$15 per person. I was an instant convert.
There is an identical place next door, but when in that neighborhood I will still only eat at Panna II.
Video: How to Make Brownies in a Waffle Iron
I am happy to report that if you only have 5.7 oz of chocolate and espresso on hand (instead of 6 oz and instant coffee powder), this recipe still works. Topped with CSA sour cherries and powdered sugar, they were divine!
Win Tickets to an NYC Advance Screening of 'Julie and Julia'
This year, it has been Mollie Katzen's The Vegetables I Can't Live Without. I am consistently excited by vegetables now, and am cooking more often and more healthily than ever before. It's the perfect accompaniment to my first CSA share purchase. So far, I've made 16 of the recipes (I've got another one planned for tonight's dinner), and only one has fallen short of spectacular. Even better, my experience cooking from it has encouraged and inspired me to new heights of flavor in other recipes and off-the-cuff cooking. Hooray!
Illy Espresso Machine Giveaway from 'Edible Brooklyn'
I like the Mexican coffee bar "Beaner Bar" on Graham (North Side/Williamsburg).
Win Tickets to This Year's 'Village Voice' Choice Eats
Il Passatore in Williamsburg.
Cook the Book: 'The Great Wings Book'
I have to have to have to have nachos.
Cook the Book: Jamie at Home
Black bean chili served on top of baked sweet potatoes.
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Edible Chocolate Box from Charles Chocolates
Self-saucing chocolate pudding cake.
Seriously Delicious Holiday Food Giveaway: Russ & Daughters
H-h-h-home fries. They may not say "New York," but that's where I eat them.
McDonald's Filet-O-Fish: Yea or Nay?
As long as it's freshly made, yea.
Holiday Giveaway: Zingerman's Praise the Lard Gift Box
I didn't eat pork for years, and then I spotted some prosciutto-wrapped asparagus at an opening night party for a play I was pissed I wasn't in. In my moment of weakness, the doors to pork swung open wide, inviting me back into the fold. Yum.
Howard's Crispy Fried Chicken Skins, Because Pork Rinds Are So Last Year
I am determined to find these in Brooklyn. My search begins now.
Win a Free Organic D'Artagnan Turkey Here!
I def. want to attempt the roasted brined turkey.
Cook the Book: 'Second Helpings of Roast Chicken'
I always use (and never have too many) onions. But plain yogurt and salsa go bad before I use them up (especially if I get cocky and buy the big yogurt containers).
Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
My biggest success has been an 8-hour Concord Grape Pie (as in it took me 8 hours to make it and the ice cream that topped it). It is delicious. I'm eating it now!
Win Tix to the SWEETest Event Ever at the New York City Wine & Food Fest
A just-baked chocolate chip cookie at Paradis, near Union Square
Cook the Book: 'Chocolate Epiphany'
Peanut butter and chocolate pudding pie, chosen because it's been a while.
What holiday traditions are still going strong in your family?
I like the popcorn ball party idea! I have a cookie party every year (this will be my 11th annual) in December and make many varieties of cookies to share with my friends, as well as a few other savory and sweet treats. We make and decorate cookies during the party, too.
This grew out of my mom's tradition of having an open house every year since the late seventies, but hers is much bigger and she bakes and freezes items for weeks in advance.
We have a few other food-related holiday traditions, including homemade bread and cinnamon rolls on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. We usually have black-eyed-peas as part of the New Year's Eve or New Year's Day meal, and sometimes sauerkraut and sausages are a part of that meal as well.
Thanksgiving changes a little for me every year, but in childhood the traditional components were mom's sausage dressing, turkey, mashed potatoes, green beans, and canned cranberry "sauce." Now we usually have Susan Stamberg's mother-in-law's horseradish cranberry sauce, mashed sweet potatoes with rum, chestnut dressing, and...still...a turkey.
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'The Elements of Cooking'
The most important element in my mind would be a sense of perspective. And this can mean perspective in terms of your flavors and balance, in terms of how the way you cook fits into your lifestyle and schedule, of how different dishes work together in a meal, to having the courage to try new things or to improvise, visual perspective (does depth perception help?!), etc. It's also a useful coping mechanism when something goes wrong!
Opening Soon: The Meat Hook at Brooklyn Kitchen
QueenAlli: The Meathook will be getting its meat from places like Fleisher's butcher shop in upstate NY. Fleisher's, in turn, has a commitment to only using well-treated, pasture-raised animals:
http://www.fleishers.com/meats-animals.htm
In addition to Fleisher's, the Meathook is also using other similarly-minded sources. I'm sure that once they've settled into their new home at the Brooklyn Kitchen Labs, you'll be able to learn more about that.
Opening Soon: The Meat Hook at Brooklyn Kitchen
oh. They have a class "How to Boil Water" for $40. Is that right? Or do I not know how to boil water the right way?
Opening Soon: The Meat Hook at Brooklyn Kitchen
Sweet. I didn't realize I lived so close to the Brooklyn Kitchen. I should check it out.
Are You a Night Baker?
Oh, most definitely. I often don't start baking until 11:30 or so. But now that I have a new roommate (husband!), I don't know if I'll be able to do this anymore. I'm pretty sure that the sound of my KitchenAid whirring at high speed at 1 am won't fly anymore. :(
Are You a Night Baker?
Absolutely! If I'm not too exhausted from having to get up at an ungodly hour that morning, I get a late burst of creative energy late at night and will often bake, paint or both at once until 3 or 4 in the morning. This is why I'm going to be looking for restaurant work as opposed to bakery work when I'm done with pastry school -get to sleep in, wander into work in the late afternoon and gogogo until the wee hours. Yay!
Girlfriend-On-Vacation Food Pyramid
I found it quite funny! That's how most of my friends eat. But as a 20-something single dude myself, I speak with pride when I say that I home-cook every dinner and even make myself microwaveable dishes of awesomeness for lunch.
Girlfriend-On-Vacation Food Pyramid
well.. some guys like sweets.
I know when my bf and I were in different cities, he'd impulsively buy a whole cake from a grocery store. Granola bars (not chocolate, tho) is still his staple food.
(But he also loves chips and beer. and bacon.)
Girlfriend-On-Vacation Food Pyramid
I probably do more meats and less veggies. Kettle corn, reddi-wip, crackers, oreo's and granola bars???? Who is this F!@#%$& guy?! I certainly have never watched a football game with him. What in God's green earth are reddi-wip crackers anyway? This guy needs an ass whoopin and a beer.
Here's what I like to eat...(If only I was smart enough to cook them for my simple self) Steak and eggs, bacon and eggs, steak and potato, sausage and peppers, mashed potato and some kinda meat, burritos, tacos, Pasta, Red beans and rice, Boudin, stews, chowders... fun stuff that isn't always healthy, but damned good.
So all this time I have been missing out on the glory of reddi-wip crackers, and granola bars?! HA! Pass the ribeye and the remote!
Girlfriend-On-Vacation Food Pyramid
Where is the giant bag of chips? Any kind of chips: potato, corn, mixed grain. The guys I know are more into salt than sugar. Or hot! Salsa with a big kick. Siracha sauce on everything. Banana peppers. Dill pickles. Canned tuna with enough mayo to choke a horse. And Mountain Dew till it floods!
But I go through days when I want nothing but tapioca pudding and a cheese sandwich for dinner. Kraft singles and the pudding in a cup!
I was lucky. I was taught to cook by a man, so I know some of them can cook. We all have off days, but I am the one eating the kettle corn, not some guy! And chocolate has always been a girl thing.
Girlfriend-On-Vacation Food Pyramid
Anyway: my girlfriend's not home, so I'd best go eat my block of cheese. :)
Girlfriend-On-Vacation Food Pyramid
@kevster
They're not at all comparable. This is an example of satire. A mathematically deficient Barbie doll most likely wasn't.
Girlfriend-On-Vacation Food Pyramid
this made me laugh.. i love the idea. ofcourse mine would have 'crappy pizza, bag of nuts (atleast its fiber!), Doritos sandwiches (yes they do exist), tuna out of a can, mountain dew, coffee, dunkin donuts, beer, more beer and crackers' on it.
if you are a man who doesn't eat like this - more power to you for embracing the inner foodie healthy person but at one point in your life you did. just admit it and laugh at yourself. its a joke people!
Girlfriend-On-Vacation Food Pyramid
I agree that men are portrayed poorly in popular culture.
But...this is kind of representative of how my fiance eats at home. He doesn't eat junk food because he can't cook. He just likes to eat it. And it drives me nuts because I'd prefer to see him eat more balanced meals, some veggies, and less salt.
And I really *can't* do math. Are we just horrible stereotypes?
Girlfriend-On-Vacation Food Pyramid
Some people found the talking Barbie who said "I can't do math" pretty amusing too!
Girlfriend-On-Vacation Food Pyramid
@kevster and @jenh718
It's called a stereotype. A stereotype is a device often used in humor.
Just because some of us find it amusing, doesn't mean we believe it applies to everyone.
Girlfriend-On-Vacation Food Pyramid
this is just another example of how food and cooking becomes gendered. it reinforces gender stereotypes. i tend to be a better cook than a lot of the women i know; i just don't think it's funny -- using gender stereotypes for humor is easy and unoriginal at best, and sexist at worst.
Are You a Night Baker?
Simply put, yes, yes I am! :D
Girlfriend-On-Vacation Food Pyramid
is it possible that a few of the people who commented are wound up just a wee bit too tight? maybe? i thought the pyramid was amusing.
Girlfriend-On-Vacation Food Pyramid
Why do people believe this nonsense that all men are likely to accidentally microwave the cat if not for the gentle yet exasperated guidance of their highly competent girlfriends/wives?
Every other commercial on TV drives this point home. Every family sit-com is populated by men who are one guffaw away from launching a propane tank through the neighbour's window.
What about my experience: I've had a fair number of female roommates over the years. Few of them were capable of producing much more than a tuna noodle casserole. None of them were capable of cleaning up after themselves or buying toilet paper.
Should I apply this experience to ALL women? What do women wipe themselves with when the men aren't around to make sure there's toilet paper? My experience suggests they'll use paper towels, napkins, rough drafts of their school papers... anything so they don't have to go out to the store and buy toilet paper. Should I make a cartoon about it and put it on the internet?
Girlfriend-On-Vacation Food Pyramid
That was painful to read. Nothing like portraying men as infantile buffoons to get a laugh. When the girlfriend (replacement mother figure) is away the boy will play? Please. Asinine.
Girlfriend-On-Vacation Food Pyramid
The last time I left my BF alone to fend for himself for a week he started the week strong - he wrapped prosciutto around chicken breasts and cooked them in his George Foreman grill. However, after he'd eaten those up, he proceeded to order a Philly Cheesesteak pizza from Domino's every night of the week. He'd eat half for dinner and the rest for breakfast. Repeat. Repeat again. Until I came home. Six days later.
Girlfriend-On-Vacation Food Pyramid
I think I take exception to this one!
Not all men are incompetent buffoons who can't feed themselves, despite what you might see in commercials.
This is how my family would probably eat if I didn't do the cooking.
The only thing I change when I'm out of town, is that I order the shrimp. My wife is allergic, so I only eat it when I'm far, far away.
Girlfriend-On-Vacation Food Pyramid
The only things that should be on this list are beer, pizza, and breakfast cereal!!
Girlfriend-On-Vacation Food Pyramid
I'm entertained by the timing of this post. My boyfriend is currently on a business trip, and the way I've been eating is a total opposite of this. Totally upscale, and all the things he doesn't like. Mussels, one night, roasted veggies, shrimp pad thai... mmm. The fine dining is the only thing I've enjoyed this week, I'm ready for him to come home!
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