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My Favorite Breakfast Meat: Chinese Sausage
I love chinese sausage! Only trouble is I can't seem to find it anywhere around here.
Cook the Book: 'Mrs. Rowe's Little Book of Southern Pies'
My biggest failure was a honey cake. It came out like a hunk of rubber. I tried to eat a piece and it was like eating a rubber band.
Cook the Book: 'Modern Spice'
Indian that actually tastes like indian rather than my spicy random concoctions
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How to Make Patbingsu (Korean Shaved Ice)
I was totally with you until the mixing. Then I was just about to cry. Just the thought of stirring all that goodness up makes me cringe. I'm one of those people where each item has a section of the plate. They don't touch. I especially like the tupperwares where you have compartments for each thing.
My Favorite Breakfast Meat: Chinese Sausage
I love chinese sausage! Only trouble is I can't seem to find it anywhere around here.
Cook the Book: 'Mrs. Rowe's Little Book of Southern Pies'
My biggest failure was a honey cake. It came out like a hunk of rubber. I tried to eat a piece and it was like eating a rubber band.
Cook the Book: 'Modern Spice'
Indian that actually tastes like indian rather than my spicy random concoctions
Cook the Book: 'Rustic Fruit Desserts'
choosing your favorite fruit dessert is like choosing your favorite kid. hrmph. I guess I will go with lemon creme brulee. or raspberry bars.
How to Make Moffles, Mochi + Waffles
I must live in a hole or something because I have never seen mochi in any grocery type store, even the asian market. But it's really easy to make. All you need is glutinous rice flour and some water and sugar so it's OK.
Celebrate Pi Day with Pie
I can do about 25 digits..... last year I could do more but I am getting old and don't remember any more
Last year I made 12 pies for pi day, several of which I at least attempted to write the symbol pi with limited success.... http://whyamisoboring.blogspot.com/2008/03/pie-day.html
This year was a bit smaller... at least so far http://whyamisoboring.blogspot.com/2009/03/pie-day-2009.html I tried to draw pi with bacon but it didn't work all that well. but at least they liked they pies!
Geeka, you eat things that are close to but not quite pie!!!! http://whyamisoboring.blogspot.com/2008/07/pi-approximation-day.html
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Zingerman's Praise the Lard Gift Box
frying up some late night bacon for snacking in college
Cook the Book: 'The Bon Appétit Fast Easy Fresh Cookbook'
When I've got bread (which is actually pretty rare) a nice buttery grilled cheese. Barring that, a collection of whatever random items are in my fridge, sauted or baked, depending on what I find.
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Edible Chocolate Box from Charles Chocolates
Something rich and chocolatey, like a dark chocolate pudding or creme brulee
Drink Wine Out of Baby Bottles at La Cave des Fondus
most of the flavor of wine comes from smelling it. so doesn't the baby bottle prevent that? i guess it makes it a good vessel for really cheap wine where your goal is to get drunk, not so much enjoy the wine.
Cook the Book: 'How to Cook Everything, Revised Tenth Anniversary Edition'
The cookies! mmm maybe I'll make cookies today just thinking about them
Cook the Book: 'Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics'
This is why I joined the Barefoot Bloggers! I can't say I really have a dish that everyone likes but people usually like my cinnamon buns and cookies.
Cook the Book: 'The Cook's Country Cookbook'
something loaded with all sorts of tasty carbs, salt and fat.... mac 'n cheese!
Cook the Book: 'Fat'
ice cream! and bacon! though I haven't put the 2 together yet... soon I will though.
Cook the Book: 'Giada's Kitchen'
either a carbonara or bolognese depending on my mood. my old age seems to be making me not so tolerant to overly rich foods.
Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
it started when my friends' mom tried to make an orange cake. she used a tablespoon rather than a teaspoon for a few ingredients, ie orange zest, baking soda. so that wasn't edible. then we made another cake. we tasted a crumb and it tasted ok so we put it together and frosted it. well we forgot that the pans were lined with parchment. so when she went to serve a slice she felt some odd resistance when she cut the slice but served it. gramma found it when she went to eat it.
No Surprise Here: 'Glass Is Greener,' Says Glass Lobbyist
Let's hit each of the topics people have mentioned....
Shipping empty packaging to wine producer: In the same space you can fit 2000 unfilled bag in a boxes or 72 glass bottles.
Use of green raw materials: Post consumer materials can be used in the cardboard, glass and plastic. You'd have to check with your specific product to find out if they are actually using it but it's definitely available. There are also biobased plastics (meaning renewable source and biodegradable product) used for the bags, if you choose to pay for it.
Total use of packaging material: Obviously much less material is used per ounce of wine in the bag in the box option.
Shipping packaged wine: While the bulk of the weight when shipping the product comes from the wine, bag in a boxes are stackable on their own so you get much more wine/cubic ft of truck space.
Product preservation: The bag in a box package is much more durable in transit, resulting in less damaged packaging during delivery and less loss in transit. Then there is the longer shelf life after opening that someone else mentioned.
Recycle/Reusability: Yes, you could probably put stuff around your house in used wine bottles but do you? Cardboard is definitely recyclable, I am not sure where dbcurrie gets that it is not. Maybe in some very small town it is not but I have lived in a number of small towns (ie town pop 15k, county pop 30k) where it has always been recyclable. Even if it isn't, cardboard is biodegradable. There are recyclable and biodegradable options for the bag, depending on what you choose.
Cook the Book: Serves One
A quesadilla with some sort of leftovers in it. I always seem to have leftovers in the fridge that I can throw in. Most of the times I make it in the microwave and sprinkle a couple drops of water on it so it gets nice and doughy like a soft taco shell, rather than the crisp more typical exterior.
Photo of the Day: Cherry Crumb Pie on Notebook Paper Plate
why use a notebook plate?? i'm confused. we just use actual notebooks (or printer paper, or paper towels, really anything you can find) when we run out of plates at work. and it makes for easy clean up! rip off the top sheet and you are done!
Cook the Book: Nigella Express
make a big dish and pack it up into individual meal containers for lunch and/or dinner. if you are single like me it lasts all week, or until you are sick of it and throw it out.
Cook the Book: 'Arthur Schwartz's Jewish Home Cooking'
latkes and challah
Happy Pi(e) Day!
Woohoo someone else decided to celebrate Pi Day!!! I decided Pi Day was going to be my holiday at work. One of my coworkers did all sorts of decorations and stuff for Halloween so that was his so I decided Pi Day was going to be mine. Naturally I couldn't just do a pie or 2, that would hardly make it my holiday.....
See my blog (I know I just started blogging, it's not very coherent and I need a real camera not just the one built into my laptop) http://whyamisoboring.blogspot.com/2008/03/pie-day.html to see all my pies.
Peep Inside a Chocolate Egg: The Must-Have Easter Candy
I have this horribly funny image of the egg over a fire with the peep head popping out like it's begging for help. But you continue to hold it over the fire and maniacally laugh as it melts and dies and you smash it between 2 graham crackers and shove it in your mouth with crumbs flying all over the place.
Cook the Book: 'Panini Express'
really thinly sliced honey ham with cheddar
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I was totally with you until the mixing. Then I was just about to cry. Just the thought of stirring all that goodness up makes me cringe. I'm one of those people where each item has a section of the plate. They don't touch. I especially like the tupperwares where you have compartments for each thing.