Our dear friend and cooking muse Keighty has cobbled together this gracefully crude (we mean that in a good way) pot pie recipe. We cheated (or didn’t cheat?) and added some chicken we had leftover from a roast. The creamy potatoes with parsnips and carrots + crispy cheddar/chive biscuit topping is amazing.
When a blog announces proudly that it finally “has a twitter” – as if they accomplished some sort of feat – I usually become extremely cynical of said blog. It’s expected these days – which is probably why we didn’t even bother thinking about it a year ago.
But that was then and this is now. Like making your first pot of ramen on a hotplate in your freshman dorm, we proudly serve you the new @FoodCrypt.
Picture grabbed from here.
Food Crypt is still just a little dude with only six months under its belt. I’m glad ya’ll have been sticking with us as we figure out what exactly blogging about food means to us. It seems like there have been a million countless (and awesome) food blogs popping up since we started. There were definitely a few times when we worked on an ambitious meal or concoction only to see it blogged with great detail somewhere else – but that’s never stopped us! I think it’s fair to say that we cooked and thought about the cooking and eating of food more than ever this year. Maybe next year we’ll figure out why exactly that was, but for now we have all these leftovers to deal with.
After the jump, 2009 in photos: incomplete and out of context.
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Hey! Guess what? You’re treating your cat like a CAT. Feed it human food, already!
If you’ve ever listened to the car crash that is the WBEZ radio programme called “848″ you probably know that the bar is set pretty low for Richard Steele to considering something “news.” But 848 may have just earned itself a pass for life by reporting on what I consider the most important food story this year:
A REAL DUTCH FRIET STAND IN CHICAGO!
Netherlands-native Jeroen Hasenbos brings Amsterdam’s traditional Frietkoten ‘fry shack’ experience to Chicago for the first time, with hand cut Belgian fries that are served in a paper cone and distinguished by a crisp outside and soft, delicious potato inside.
In keeping with the popular ‘fry shacks’ in Amsterdam, Frietkoten offers these traditional Belgian fries with up to 20 different sauces to choose from every day. Frietkoten also serves up Dutch and Belgian beers and ales to complement these traditional grab-and-go Belgian fries.
Have you ever had Patatje Oorlog (french fries “war style”)? It’s fresh cut fries topped with diced onions, mayo (a special frite mayo, actually), and peanut satay sauce! If that doesn’t give you a total boner i don’t even know.
Although, I have some serious doubts that they’ll have the famous Rotterdam treat “Patatje Kapsalon” (French fries “hair salon” style).
