If you work in an office environment, you’re probably familiar with the scent that often drifts through the cube farm around 4 pm in the afternoon…the scent of microwave popcorn. For popcorn lovers, the scent has an addictive effect that often results in additional people popping their own bags, thus […]
Month: October 2006
Kids, time to play with your food!
If you really love your kids, you’ll get them a strip of bacon for the backyard.
Bacon safari
This is a couple years old, but I just stumbled upon a great article over on the Food & Wine Magazine website about a trip that Grateful Palate owner Dan “Captain Bacon” Philips and Details Senior Editor Pete Wells took through Kentucky and Tennessee to explore some of the best […]
Ich liebe spaetzle
In addition to bacon, one of my other favorite foods is spaetzle. As weird as that may seem, I love those little dumplings and got hooked on them while I was an exchange student in Germany in high school. Yesterday a friend and I stopped for drinks at Trader […]
Subliminal
I recently realized that some art hanging in the hallway at the firm where I work has a striking resemblance to something very familiar.
Asparagus Mimosa
When the headline “Asparagus Mimosa” arrived in my RSS reader as a news item earlier today, all I saw initially was the headline. Before I clicked on the story to find out what an Asparagus Mimosa actually was, the vision (and smell) of pureed asparagus mixed with champagne popped into […]
Pigs Rule
I’m really tired of seeing the California cheese TV commercials that imply a pig would be happier if it were a cow. They’re complete bulls**t (pun totally intended). Click here to view the commercial.
Equinox Bacon
Last weekend, three of my friends and I took a cooking class with Chef Todd Gray of Equinox Restaurant in Washington, DC. We had two requests for ingredients to be used during the class – risotto and, of course, bacon. The way the class works is that the […]
Bacon Brownies
I have a brownie recipe that I’ve been making since I was in grade school – it is a recipe I used for a 4-H project at one point, and that my mom and I have played with and perfected over the years. So tonight I decided to take it […]