Tag: dish

February 10, 2005

Poaching, and some advice

And I don't mean eggs. (Which reminds me--how could I have been talking about freebasing eggs, and not make a "this is your brain on drugs" joke? What a waste.)

February 2, 2005

Kabab Cafe, for old time’s sake

Same treatment with the ol' KC, reprinted from eGullet, plus more pics on the way. By the way, Ali is kicking ass these days. Sweetbreads, sardines, fantastic duck...

February 2, 2005

Purslane redux

Now that eGullet has reorganized, the links to the things I had published there are dead. So, a small attempt to salvage. And it's relevant to the sumac mention a couple of posts back--Lebanese fattoush isn't fattoush without sumac...and purslane.

February 1, 2005

Live Tagine Report: Booyakasha!

Well, that kicked ass, my pretties. It was tender enough to eat at 10:30--what was that, an hour, maybe more? Could've cooked a little longer, but would've required more liquid, as the sauce was getting a little nonexistent.

April 19, 2004

Catching Up

I've been busy traveling, and am just about to head off for a couple more trips, so briefly, my life in food for the past couple of weeks:

January 13, 2004

Astronaut ice cream a fraud!

This eGullet Q&A with a NASA food scientist is great–even though she has no sense of humor (note how she just doesn’t dish on in-flight food poisoning like you wish she would). Tortillas are the space-age bread, freeze-dried shrimp cocktail is very popular, but (gasp!) astronaut ice-cream was a one-time deal for the Apollo mission only. I’d get huffy and nostalgic about this, but really, that stuff sucked.