At my most recent cocktail party, a guest brought a gift of Ransom Old Tom Gin. Old Tom is a lovely old style gin with lots of infused flavor, very different from what you might expect. Malty, spicy, complex. It’s very good over ice with with a big lemon peel, though we failed to make a good [...]
I found this wackiness on the metafilter: How to Peel a Head of Garlic in Less Than 10 Seconds from SAVEUR.com on Vimeo. It totally, mostly, works. (I had a few cloves left unpeeled. They were the strongest. The deserve to live.)
I came across this article via the ever Daring Fireball and it quickly got picked up by the Metafilter. It’s a good discussion of how vodka became popular in the US, largely due to really good advertising. It also validates my opinion that vodka makes lousy martinis. Vodka Nation | The Weekly Standard.
I approve of this sort of thing. Now you’re cooking with comics..
This is fantastic: http://studiofeast.com/2011/07/21/recap-doppelganger-dinner/ The vegetarian and omnivore dishes look nearly identical, but are made from different ingredients.
I recently came across a short piece on how to safely prepare steak tartare by Michael Ruhlman (author of Ratio which is a great book). Today I had a spontaneous day off drop in my lap. A Friday off is a good day for a decadent lunch, so I decided to try making steak tartare [...]
(watch the butter. oh my god. the butter.)
I found a lot of coffee discussion going on in my RSS feeds today. I came across these two video love letters to coffee, coffee making, and coffee lovers everywhere. Aero press from Alexey Kurbatov on Vimeo. Kolyan from Alexey Kurbatov on Vimeo. Gorgeous.
Summer time is zucchini time. Unfortunately it’s still cold and rainy some days in Portland, so I’m making pasta. The zucchini is used as the base for a sauce, while broccoli rapini and tomatoes flesh out the dish. This is a hearty, baked, vegetarian rigatoni which can serve as a main course or be paired [...]
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