Our dear friends at Always With Honor have made these really cool food pins. There’s an AM set and a PM set.
Also check out the bear t-shirt; portion of sales will be donated to Idaho Black Bear Rehab which takes in, rehabilitates and re-releases orphaned cubs into the wild.
Marinate chicken breasts cut into 1-inch cubes in 2 T tamari, 1 T sherry, 1/2 t ground ginger or 1/2-inch piece of ginger overnight. Heat 2 T sesame oil (total = 1/4 C) over high flame and stir fry 2 sliced scallions, garlic clove cut into two pieces and 1 C of coarsely chopped walnuts. After three or four minutes remove garlic and transfer scallions and walnuts into a bowl. Add remaining oil and chicken pieces and marinade. Stir fry about five minutes, until chicken is tender and coated with soy mixture. Combine with walnuts and onions. Serve with rice.
(These ideas come from the Tassajara Book)
Go through refrigerator, collecting food you no longer wish to eat: rice, beans, cooked vegetables or raw (parsley that’s turned yellow, etc.). Include any liquids you may have saved (such as water from parboiling string beans). Put through Cuisinart and measure. Add more than an equal amount of whole wheat flour. Do not work with more than 5-7 cups of gruel at the same time. Mix and then knead (adding dry dill weed if wished) for about 45 minutes or an hour until it is consistent (“all of a piece”). Then put in oiled bread pans. I use corn oil. After putting it in, take it out and put it back upside down. (This oils the entire loaf.) Take a wild knife and make a deep indentation down the middle of the loaf. Cover with damp cloth and leave in warm place overnight. In the morning back at 375 degrees for one hour and 15-20 minutes.
Soak beans overnight after having washed them. In the morning change the water and add Kombu (seaweed). Also, if you wish, rosemary or cumin. Watch them so that they don’t cook too long, just until tender. Then pour off most of the liquid, saving it, and replace it with tamari (or Braggs). But taste first: you may prefer it without tamari or with very little. Taste to see if it’s too salty. If it is, add more bean liquid. Then, if you have the juice from a roasted chicken, put several teaspoons of this with the beans. Black turtle beans or small white beans can be cooked without soaking overnight. But large kidney beans or pinto beans, etc., are best soaked. (So are the others.)
Another way to cook beans, which has become my favorite way, is with bay leaves, thyme, garlic, salt, and pepper. You can cook it with some kombu from the beginning. I know use the “shocking method.” See Aveline Kushi’s book.
And now I’ve changed again. A Guatemalan idea: Bury an entire plant of garlic in the beans without bothering to take the paper off. Cook for at least 3 hours.
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I’ve been getting chicken down the street at Alliance Poultry, where they let you pick out which live chicken you want to eat.
And they give you the feet and liver and heart and all the things I know what to do with — make a stock.
But what do you do with a chicken head?
More on Alliance soon.
As sick as I am of the “foodie” moniker, this brother and sister team made a great, easy to follow video on replicating the Bo ssam dish at Momofuku.
Carbonation actually tastes sour.
Chicago’s tamale guy has a myspace.
Guy Fieri has a twitter. And, no, i’m not expecting you to be surprised – but it IS hilarious!
I love Certs. I love the packaging and I love the Retsyn and I love eating 12 of them in less than 30 minutes.
Certs was the first breath mint to be nationally marketed in the United States, and has been a fixture at American drug stores and convenience stores since its debut on the market in 1956.
Though classified as mints, Certs contain no mint oil. Instead, as has long been advertised, the mints contain Retsyn, a mixture of copper gluconate, hydrogenated cottonseed oil, and flavoring. It is the copper gluconate in Retsyn which gives Certs its signature green flecks.
Not a true disk, a Certs exhibits a pronounced bulge emerging from the edge, subsiding to form a depression at the center. Certs were not always this shape. Prior to the current form, they were more regular discs with beveled edges. Each Certs is counterembossed on one side with the legend “CERTS RETSYN” in letters about 3 mm tall, approximately midway between center and edge, each letter oriented away from the center.
Certs are packaged in rolls of 12.
Unlike Tic Tacs and Mentos, Certs, in standard American usage, takes the plural form for both plural and singular references. (e.g.: “Would you like some Certs?” and “Would you like a Certs?” both represent the most common use.)
Update:
The debate over whether Certs is in fact a breath mint or a candy mint may finally be over. In 1999, the United States Customs Service classified Certs as a candy mint for tariff purposes (candy is taxed differently from oral hygiene products). In the ensuing suit before the United States Court of International Trade, Cadbury introduced expert testimony that Certs stimulate the flow of saliva, thus flushing bad odors from the mouth, and that its flavors and oils mask bad breath. But the court ruled that, since Certs do not contain antibacterial ingredients, they are, indeed, just a candy mint. On appeal, however, the ruling was overturned, fixing Certs’s status, at least as far as the United States Government is concerned, as a breath mint.
(via Wikipedia)
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Pour five liters of vodka into a utility bucket for a soothing, sterile footbath.
You can keep away insects and plant pathogens by lining the edges of your lawn with glasses of vodka.
Wash your car with vodka. You’ll need anywhere from 7-10 bottles of vodka, depending on the car. Remove excess vodka with vodka.
Instead of paint, use vodka. Your friends will be impressed: “Wow, you painted your dining room vodka?!”
Save water with a quick vodka shower. Just pour vodka onto your head, lather, and rinse. Go ahead, sneak a sip… nobody’s looking!
Construct a footstool out of empty vodka bottles so you can reach your vodka cupboard.
Vodka your plants.
Take a vodka bath. 15-20 bottles. While you soak, bleach your whites in the same vodka. It’s cost effective and pretty safe.
A few drops of vodka into the eyes will instantly clear up any redness or irritation.
Make your own vodka sauce. Pour vodka directly onto food. Vodka sauce.
Clean your gun with a vodka-soaked rag. Now your gun will smell like vodka when you show it to people.
Distill your own vodka by boiling a pot of urine.
Build a tree house for the children.
Pour vodka into a paper bag. Stick your face into the bag, but do not inhale (WINK).
Poison your neighbors’ pets.
“Old engine oil has a more refined taste than fresh. When engine oil is fresh it is more like caramel, which doesn’t go at all well with soil (not bad with fried ants though).”
“Roald Dahl’s recipes: A plate of soil with engine oil” — Times of London
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“If a baguette is the high note of bread, then rye bread is the bass.”
“The Search for Real Rye” and “5 Qualities of Great Rye Bread” — the Atlantic
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“An inspector watched as they emptied the contents of each into the Dumpster—not because anything was found to be harmful, but solely because Lula didn’t have approval to practice what the government calls “modified atmosphere packaging.”
“Those who can, can’t: Old-fashioned food preservation is spreading like wildfire in Chicago’s restaurant scene, but government regulations keep a lid on it.” — Time Out Chicago
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InCUBATE’s Sunday Soup is at Heaven Gallery at 8 p.m. Oct. 11. Seems very “event-y” this time.
