Archive for the 'Food and Drink' Category

Cooking With Beer

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

It’s no Guinness float1, but here’s something I’ve had on the old hard disk for quite a few years 2 that’s always worked out well for me. Those monks are geniuses.
Charcoal braised beef with Chimay Blue
Serves: 4 persons
Preparation: 0 h 20 min
Cooking: 2 h 15 min
Type: Main dish
Cuisine: Belgium
INGREDIENTS

800 gr (1.75 lb.) of braising [...]

Midweek Miscellany

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

It is very hard for me to imagine that Guinness cupcakes could be anything but super yummy. Make me some–I’ll be your friend.

While we’re talking about food, I’ve got to say that enough is enough. I consider myself at least something of an epicure, so I believe that there are such things as quality olive [...]

Gone Drinking

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

Due to important fund-raising activities and all-you-can-drink craft beer, there will be no blogging today.
(Actually, I’m sick and driving, so there won’t be that much drinking, but I will still put in an appearance, raise the flag, and put some money towards a good cause.)

Once more unto the breach

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

…to close a bunch of tabs before Firefox memory issues eat my computer.

Let us begin with my praise of BibliOdyssey. They pulled me in earlier this month with the scans from an antique geomancy almanac, and I’ve been exploring their archives since then. Wow, is there a lot of stuff in there for a bibliophile [...]

En Passant

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

I’ve got a three-year-old arriving in half an hour, and I’ve got a remote controlled car that I’ve just assembled, so I don’t have a lot of time for blogging today. Let’s see how many of my 20 or so “quickies” I can get through, in passing, before she gets home…

Recent experiments with Hemmingway’s recipe [...]

If I can find chestnuts…

Monday, February 18th, 2008

It appears that I failed to get tickets to the Savour Food & Wine show before it sold out.
Consequently, it appears I will not be getting to taste:

Slow roasted pork ribs with mango salsa, Buttermilk stilton biscuit with roasted duck and mini doughnuts with warm mocha chocolate
Shaved Smoked BBQ Brisket on Rosemary Crouton with Grainy [...]

Not Beautiful, But Made From The Heart

Monday, February 11th, 2008

A couple of weeks back when Trish had her birthday, Sarah and I spent an afternoon making her a birthday cake. From scratch. That’s right–no mixes for us. If you’ve ever baked with a 3-year old, you will know that this can be terribly fun, if a bit messy.
The cake that we made was pretty [...]

Is There Anything It Can’t Do?

Monday, February 11th, 2008

I love garlic. A lot. Like, an unsociable amount. Hell, I stole one of Brust’s laws of cooking: “If it doesn’t have garlic, it better be dessert!”
So I love it every time scientists find another way garlic does amazing things to protect your health. I’d eat it anyway, of course. Here’s this week’s example:
from Garlic [...]

Other Impractical Desires

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

Here are a few other things, of no practical value, that I’d love to get:

The Peggy programmable light board kit. I’d like to buy a few of these–one to put in the office in Boston to mock the Mooninite thing from last year, one to put in my office for alternative visualization experiments, and one [...]

In Passing: Vlado’s

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

I had no connectivity at the hotel last night, have been working full-on all day today, and am shortly going to head out for my (apparently) annual trip to Vlado’s.
Since I start heading back home tomorrow, I’ll also have to pack tonight, so the odds are good that even if the Internet connectivity problem is [...]

A miscellany for a Friday

Friday, December 21st, 2007

There’s absolutely no theme here, just a bunch of stuff that caught my interest.

Why did I not know there was a new Grimjack comic being serialized to the web at ComicMix.com? There’s like 60 pages there already. I hope this is web-to-trade serialization. And look, there’s also a Jon Sable, and what’s this Bar Sinister?
The [...]

Just In Time For Christmas

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

One of the online fora I am active on included a pointer this week to a blog post showing some interesting Laotian rice wine:

(You can see an even bigger version of that photo at the author’s Flickr page.)
I’m not opposed to liquor with stuff in it generally–but there is some stuff that probably doesn’t [...]

Whether you believe it or not, you should be jealous

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

Why? Why should you be jealous?
Not because I just spent 9PM-midnight on the phone in conference calls with Australia for work. I am jealous of you all because you didn’t have to do that, and don’t have to do it every Thursday.
No, you should be jealous of me because I have just finished these calls, [...]

A Targeted Miscellany

Monday, September 10th, 2007

A Sunday link list, of things that made me think of specific people.
For my lovely wife, to share with her radical feminist associates, is the story of the most famous pirate of all time. Especially the bits about the pirate laws governing female prisoners. And the end of the story.
Also for her yet another story [...]

A little miscellany

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

This headline made me laugh. I often wonder if headline writers do this on purpose, as McDonald suggests, or not.
I find this face averaging tool fascinating. It’s one thing to pick a few attractive faces, average them, and see that the resulting face is more attractive than the majority of source faces, but it’s a [...]