Section » Sweets
Ecstasy in two words: BACON TOFFEE
Yes, you read that right. Try hard and you can imagine this match made in gustatory heaven: crispy chewy bacon bits (in this case heritage pork from Fatted Calf) coated in buttery sweet crunchy toffee. Salty and sugary, smoky and rich…white trash flavors made with top-quality ingredients…ahhhhhh. I had bacon
More articles
Pretty good pomegranate sauce
Pomegranates are not native to the Pacific Northwest, but here is a good sauce I made by once upon a time. The recipe comes from memory. The sauce goes well with lamb and that Oregon staple, pinot noir. Warm weather natives, rejoice. Ingredients: 2 pomegranates, or 1 cup of pure pomegranate juice 2
Digest: Next Big Fish, Farm Bill wishlist, Frankenfuels, NYC foie gras ban
The Boston Globe: After marketing killed the Chilean Sea Bass, it seemed no other fish was waiting to replace it as a ubiquitous, mild-flavored, un-overcookable presence on menus around the world. Until now.
Comments Off • Read more »
Not just for Oompa Loompas – a tour of Theo Chocolate
A couple of months ago, Man of La Muncha brought home a chocolate bar along with our normal haul of groceries. I pounced on the bar as it emerged from the shopping bag, to find that the flavor was, (ahem), "Bread and Chocolate". The brand was 3400 Phinney, and the maker was someone we had not heard
Comments Off • Read more »
Trick or treat: CUESA’s “Scary scenes from our food system”
In honor of Halloween here are some creepy facts via this week's newsletter from the Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture (CUESA), the nonprofit that has managed
Comments Off • Read more »
Oly’s Pear Pie
One of the challenges of being half a blogging couple is that we discuss ideas, and then the first person scheduled to write in a week tends to use up those ideas. You wake, thinking idly of the post that is due the following day, only to discover that the other person has written not just about the
Comments Off • Read more »
Around the blogosphere: Sewage sowing, Simon says, Dagoba interview
Our news larder is rather empty today, but others in the food blogosphere have plenty to go around. Rather than poach off their plates, we're linking to them. The Accidental Hedonist: Kate Hopkins
Comments Off • Read more »
Foie gras brouhaha: Bourdain & Ruhlman on proposed New Jersey ban
Today's Salon has an exchange between Anthony Bourdain and Michael Ruhlman about a proposed foie gras ban in New Jersey. Who cares? Well, the Garden State is home to D'Artagnan, one of America's
Baltimore brews
Updated with photos! Our long residence on the West Coast gave us the impression that there is no decent beer east of the Rockies until you cross the Canadian border or reach Europe. This bias could have been argued until the mid-1990s. I remember business trips to the East Coast where the only alternatives
Ethicureans abroad: or, our visit to Baltimore
Update: We've added photos after a slight delay.--MolM. This last weekend, Man of La Muncha and I traveled to Baltimore for a friend's wedding. The wedding was wonderful, and we met (and in some cases, re-met) a lot of very fun and interesting people. But, of course, any trip involving Ethicureans
Comments Off • Read more »
Salsa with Tomatillos busts the Burrito Rule
My willingness to cook something used to follow what I called the Burrito Rule. Basically, I wasn't going to make anything that would take a lot of time, cost twice as much, and taste half as good as what I could easily buy in a restaurant or store. And burritos, delicious versions of which are all over
Not the last word on donuts
Seattle cartoonist Dan Piraro has provided his opinion on the topic of best Seattle donuts in his daily strip. If you aren't familliar with Pirarro's works, then you may have dangerously low
Comments Off • Read more »
Frozen Delights: Huckleberry ice cream, raspberry mint sorbet, honey basil ice cream
The Butter Bitch and I received an ice cream maker last year as a wedding gift, and we put the gift to good use during the warm summer of 2005. This prompts a belated shout out to Erik and Holly in Oakland, the givers of our much-used ice cream maker. For some reason, I did not start to use the ice
Dog day
It was a slow day here at Chez Beef. Sir Loin was up late last night trying to attach my old laptop to his stereo set-up (this was unsuccessful, and apparently will require large capital expenditures to remedy). I went to bed early but slept in anyway, still tired from some minor surgery a few days ago.
Zuke alors!
Late July is the beginning of squash season in Seattle and as our weekend began I realized that we had two pounds of squash from our CSA box, with a good chance of receiving more squash on Tuesday. I had planned to grill squash on the weekend, but work and the reappearance of rain interfered with those
Comments Off • Read more »
