I’m not one of the fancy people who has a smoker (someday…oh yes…someday), but last weekend I stopped by the local butcher and they happened to have a rack of beef ribs for very cheap. So, I bought them, to play with them. I made a very simple dry rub, with salt, pepper, cayenne powder, [...]
For some reason, my life has been full of bacon lately. Last weekend I played on an ultimate team that named itself “The Kevin Bacons” (it’s a pickup team, why not?). One of the folks playing on that team brought bacon breakfast cookies to the field. (Note: bacon cookies are not a good idea.) And [...]
And by “it’s 40″, I mean that it’s about 40 degrees outside. It’s also dark, and raining. No better time to grill up some steaks…
What happens when you take a bunch of ultimate players, and put them in New England in the winter? Sushi. Lots and lots of sushi. 24.77 pounds of sushi eaten by 10 people, to be precise. Slightly more than a kilogram each of rice and fish. In retrospect, it was both a very fun, and [...]
My first Scrump-didly-umptious post just went up. Hooray, bivalves!
Go read Scrumptulescence. No. Seriously. Go read it. Go. Now. (If you’re confused about why a demand that my readers go read a food blog has the category “Ultimate” appended to it, it’s because several of the posters are folks that I’ve played ultimate with…)
Haven’t posted in a while. I wish I could say that I had a good excuse, but I really don’t. I’ve spent the past 5 days pretty much eating my way through the holiday. Saturday night, my mom and sister, Grace’s boyfriend Jeremy, and my godparents and their family came over for dinner. I had [...]
So I went to dinner with a friend of mine last night. We went to East Coast Grill, because I was craving seafood (magnesium deficiency or something, I guess). We get our appetizer, and about 2 minutes later the electricity goes out. Like, the whole restaurant is plunged into darkness, except the emergency exit lights. [...]
Currently in the slow cooker: 1 top round roast, about 1.8 lbs 1 onion, chopped around 3 tbsp prepared horseradish, smeared on the outside of the roast maybe 2 tbsp chopped garlic, rubbed on the outside of the roast something like 1/2 cup mango about 2 tsp of kosher salt a light sprinkle of cayenne [...]
Spent tonight hanging with Jeff and Joe and Tammy at the New England Real Ale Exhibition, in Davis. Basically, it’s a tasting festival for beer. In the past, it’s been a plethora of many wonderful beers. The wonderful factor is down a bit this year, but there’s still a lot of goodness. Cambridge Brewing Company [...]
Went down to Dot this afternoon, to dig around in what I had left at my mom’s house. She’s in the process of getting it ready to go on the market, and I just needed to make sure that nothing important got sold in the process. Also had dinner at the Ashmont Grill. I’ve mentioned [...]
My sister, on a bicycle adventure yesterday, dropped off some coffee. Some amazing, wonderful coffee from Flat Black. I’m having a nice steaming cup of Sumatra this morning, and enjoying it immensely. (I tend to make my coffee a little strong; not quite oil-consistency, but heading in that direction. This particular bean has been french-roasted, [...]
Spent part of last night making a pineapple ice cream, using this recipe from epicurious. Turned out pretty well, a little light on the pineapple taste, though. Basically, I’ve got a tasty sweet cream ice cream in my freezer now. This is a good thing. Jeffy made a chili yesterday, as well, which was one [...]
Jeffy broke out the Bobby Flay cookbook last night, and made some fish and chips. Pretty tasty, in my estimation. And the smell of talapia wafting around the apartment this morning is simply enchanting. Yummy, yummy fish. 3 pounds of fish. The cat loves Jeffy. Goop. Tasty goop, though. Sizzle. Like I said, the cat [...]
Guinness ice cream and piping hot banana bread….tasty!
Made myself some pork roast today, by adapting a recipie from the Gourmet cookbook to work with a Crock-pot slow cooker. The basic ingredients: 4 pound pork tenderloin roast cut juice from 6 limes 8 cloves of garlic 1 Tbsp of ground cumin 1 Tbsp of dried oregano 4 Tbsp kosher salt several splashes of [...]