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What Should I Make to Accompany Mac and Cheese
I like doing garlicky greens as a side, especially dandelion greens, 'cause they've got a slight kick.
Video: One Minute Apple Pie
Man, I'm such a sucker for stop motion animation. Also, I think it's funny we were all wondering about the soft butter, over kneading, and the way they split up the dough.
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Video: Jeanne Dielman Making Meatloaf
@deetroitMI: I know, right?
@OneWallKitchen: Yeah I've never seen someone so unhappy to be making meatloaf.
What Should I Make to Accompany Mac and Cheese
I like doing garlicky greens as a side, especially dandelion greens, 'cause they've got a slight kick.
Video: One Minute Apple Pie
Man, I'm such a sucker for stop motion animation. Also, I think it's funny we were all wondering about the soft butter, over kneading, and the way they split up the dough.
In Season: Beets
Awww, Doug reference!! Grace, you get super duper points!
Ben & Jerry's Chubby Hubby Renamed 'Hubby Hubby' in Support of Gay Marriage
I prefer my food with political agenda when it fits my own. Pass the tub of hubby hubby!
Not Technically Food Books, But Books with Good Food Passages
I actually have to space out my food lit to make sure I read things that aren't about food!
Haruki Murakami always does an excellent job of describing what his characters are eating, and The Pickwick Papers, by Dickens, always makes me hungry. And I umpteenth the Anne of Green Gables series. I always think of plum puffs when I'm feeling disconsolate. I don't even know what plum puffs are.
Cook the Book: 'What We Eat When We Eat Alone'
Ramen noodles or Rice-a-Roni (please don't tell anyone I eat Rice-a-Roni, please :)
Favorite foods eaten at the 'wrong' temperatures?
Eating cold leftover spaghetti as I read this!
Video: Japanese Cheese Curry Cup of Noodles Commercial
I wanted to eat this even before I saw the commercial. I wish American commercials were in Japanese...
Do You Eat or Email First?
Don't get hungry until later in the day - around ten or eleven, so running or computer first, depending on my work schedule.
Dinner Tonight: Orzo with Cherry Tomatoes, Capers, and Lemon
I love "it all feels a little polite" about food...it's the most striking thing I've read all day.
Afghanistan-friendly recipes?
Beans, rice, and spices. Lots and lots of spices - I had to get my friends to ship me spices when I lived in Poland.
Watch It with Us: 'Top Chef Masters' Episode 8
LetTheEatQueso: Ahahhaha, so true!
Watch It with Us: 'Top Chef Masters' Episode 8
Whoa, what's with all the vegan hate? I'm a little taken aback; vegan food can be/is often very delicious, and any accomplished chef should be able to handle it. Didn't Alain Passard turn L'Arpege into a vegetarian restaurant because he wanted a new challenge?
I'm glad, too, that Anita didn't go home, though I had no idea what she was thinking with cheeseburger soup. Cheese soup, ok, but I don't want little meatballs in it.
What is your fantasy food business?
I've been thinking up new ideas ever since I was fourteen! Most recently, I've been dreaming of opening a tiny little bakery in this garden shack next to the corner store on 32nd & Taraval, where the L stops. I'd have to bake everything somewhere else, and it'd be freezing in the winter (and most of the rest of the year), and well, it's a shack! It probably would not work. But I've thought out the year-round items (rootbeer float cupcakes, macarons, chocolate tarts, coconut cream pie, whoopie pies with salted caramel buttercream, etc.) and I'd also have rotating seasonal items, a space to experiment with new recipes and ingredients, and whatever else strikes my fancy.
Before this, I was dreaming of opening a bakery focused more on bread and featuring all the wonderful different types of bread I've eaten in my travels - my Polish papa's amazing rye bread, chapati and timok that I made with Tibetan nuns in India, khambir with fresh curd from those old ladies in Ladakh...I would have called it the Flying Nunnery and the logo would be a little Tibetan nun in her red robes on a bicycle. And I'd make homemade cheese and yogurt!
Zooey Deschanel Guest Judges on 'Top Chef Masters' Tonight
It doesn't seem like that much of a big deal to me. I loved Michael Chiarello's comment though - something like, "Imagine you can't cook any of the foods you love...BWAH!" (Maybe I imagined the "BWAH.")
Jamba Juice's New California Flatbreads: We Ate Them So You Don't Have To
Gah! Why must they blemish the good name of California? We've already got the Governator to do that for us.
'The Taiwan Burger' Made of Cool Whip
My moms' side is all Taiwanese, and this doesn't faze me. C'mon people, they put mayo in their fruit salads! Fruit. Salads!
Taste Test: Milks Not From a Cow
Carey: Ahahahhaha! What I would give for a picture of Ed drinking hemp milk. Hemp milk? Really? SO Santa Cruz.
Even better (by a bazillion million times) than Vitasoy is house-made soymilk that you can get at small dim sum shops. Mmm...when it's hot and you dunk in with one of those long fry-breads...there's nothing better. I grew up on the stuff so I have a really, really hard time drinking Silk, which I think is gross. Oh, and Wildwood makes amazing, amazing chocolate soy milk.
What to do with paneer
Put it in soup! I kid you not.
I spent most of last summer in the Ladakh region of India, which is inhabited largely by Tibetans and Tibetan-Indians. In my free time, I waited tables and made momos at my favorite Tibetan restaurant in Leh, in exchange for free food and time spent in the kitchen - I really, really missed being in a kitchen - and the proprietress/cook would make these great noodle soups - thanthuk and gyathuk - and put freshly made paneer that we bought from the cheesemaker in the alley in the soup. Paneer in noodle soup is STUPENDOUS and I totally recommend it. The soup broth was vegetable based and the house made noodles were flat and wide, made from flour, water, and salt. While I was traveling in Asia, I made a huge list of things that I promised myself I would learn to make when I got home, so I recently learned how to make my own paneer. Dudes, it is SO EASY, but kind of dangerous. Apparently I get hyper when I consume large amounts of cheese and freak people out at work.
The Making of Shaun Hergatt's Golden Egg
Yeah, I thought it looked like a mangosteen, too. I really don't get the gold, though. Does it taste like anything? What's the point if it doesn't taste like anything? Gold, if used as an accessory incorrectly, is always TACKY.
Making peace over beer: What should President Obama serve?
Reed's Ginger Beer. :)
Favorite soupbook?
Thanks guys! I'm excited to try some of these out.
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About marchpane
Website: http://lorenpants.blogspot.com
Location: San Francisco, and proud of it.
About: Food is my life.
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@deetroitMI: I know, right?
@OneWallKitchen: Yeah I've never seen someone so unhappy to be making meatloaf.