It’s well known amongst my friends and family and, well, roommates, that I, in general, abhor bananas. I walk into a room, ask “Who the hell at the banana?!”, and the poor potassium-loving soul meekly steps up. “I did.. but it was 12 hours ago! And I threw the peel in the trash outside!” That’s [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘American food’
March 23, 2010
So nice they named it twice.
It can be said that I typically like pretentious, exotic, and generally complicated food. And then there’s this recipe. How many ingredients? Three. THREE, PEOPLE!
February 27, 2010
Stock Options.
There’s something about a big pot of homemade chicken stock simmering away on the stove that’s just so darn.. awesome. And comforting, too, of course. I thrill myself by being thrifty–carving away on that chicken, saving the bits of meat for, oh, I don’t know, soup or enchiladas tomorrow, throwing in old carrots and onions, [...]
January 3, 2010
Keep the change, you filthy animals.
So every time I eat Stouffer’s macaroni and cheese–which happens way more than it should when I’m visiting my parents–I always think of little Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone, and then I go through all the funny parts of that darn movie and just kind of laugh to myself. Anyway, Macaulay and I are both [...]
August 30, 2009
Homemade peaches and cream milk: Sugar and spice and everything nice.
That’s what I’m made of. Seriously, could I be a better girl? Would it be humanly possible? OK, so all I did was try and recreate some of the boything’s favorite milk, Promised Land Peaches and Cream. Why not just save yourself all that time and grueling, grueling effort and just buy some, you ask? [...]
August 13, 2009
Quid pro bistro.
That’s right. You give me something, and I give back ¡bistrooo! A while before leaving the nest for-ev-er, I had a nice French bistro night chez parents. I’ve never in my whole life made actual deep-fried french fries, so I figured, when could there be a better time to sloppily deep fry something when someone [...]
August 11, 2009
Blowin’ your mind, one pre-dinner snocone at a time.
As you all know from reading my lengthy autobiography, I am a major fan of snocones. Though I’m not sure “snocone” is the right word. I like one snocone in particular, to which I am loyal to the death: Cherry cola. With cream. Oh, oh oh. Oh. Sadly, the only snocones I could find back [...]
August 10, 2009
Gus, I love you, but you’re bringin’ me down.
Except not. The first part, that is. So, yeah, I know, Gus’s Fried Chicken is famous and famous people like it, which is a recipe for more famousness. I’d been sort of anti-going to Gus’s in general as I’m pretty crap at eating chicken off of a bone and I basically like options. This is [...]
August 5, 2009
Christmas in July is soooo passé, ugh.
Thanksgiving in August is where it’s at! So, for my going away party, we whipped out a turkey we had just hanging out in the freezer and decided to have in general a massive Thanksgiving feast. Last year was the same, since I wouldn’t really be able to have an authentic Thanksgiving in Paris, and [...]
