Inconsequentialnesses

How to make farting noises while cooking a portabella mushroom, and misc. links.

Friday Review of Stuff

Whole Foods 365 Mac’n’cheez: 365 is the Whole Foods store brand that focuses on “all-natural” hippie brand image, rather than actual sustainable or organic production. Making a “natural” cheez powder rather defeats the purpose of mac’n’cheez in a box, which is to get that delightful chemical tang in a convenient and attractively nuclear orange packet […]

Wine is for Men*

Thanks for reminding me, San Francisco Chronicle!

You intended to impress your date by taking her to one of the city’s most elegant fine-dining establishments. Moments after being seated, you’ve been presented with a leather-bound wine list the size of the Manhattan telephone directory. Fifteen hundred wines and not one word of useful description on any […]

Yum

I sidste aften har jeg til sidste spist noget rødgrød med fløde. Huskammerat hvem har fået grøden, sagde det var en tyskisk ret “rotegrütze” med “Bavarisks vanillefløde” - men vi ved hvad han betyder, ikke?

Friday Review of Stuff

Places near campus that serve truly wretched mochas:

The Thai cafeteria place on Bancroft, just north of Telegraph. It has some sort of name, a very generic sort; they pour the Hershey’s syrup into your coffee while you watch, not even pretending that the word “mocha” has ever implied the kiss of real chocolate. It’s not […]

Hump Day a Lump a Dump Day

It’s Wednesday, and I’m thinking about kabocha squash and kugel. (The San Francisco Chronicle’s food section is by no means equal to the L.A. Times’, but since I get the Chron in paper form for optimal breakfast-squinting-at, it’ll have to do.) And while I’m thinking of it, this fruity tofu kugel is yummy, and would […]

Friday rock blogging: sugary edition

It’s rock candy!

Actually, I don’t like rock candy very much, but it’s pretty. Should you disagree with the first part, you can make it all by your lonesome (but with an adult’s help).

Monday Review of Stuff

Unlike certain other Monday Reviews we could mention, this one respects the traditional meaning of Monday, lingering grumpiness included.

Mr. Coffee 12-cup drip coffeemaker: I can’t find the exact model number, unfortunately, because I very much need to express my dismay with the office machine in a way that Google will hear and understand. It is:

Slow
Drippy, […]

Assorted Mysticisms

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So people have been blathering about the USDA’s new dietary horoscope. I punched in my info and I’m a Grain with Beans Rising, with Mars in Vegetables and the Moon in Mac’n’Cheez. I must take care to eat extra grain-fed beef during the warm seasons to keep my Monsanto-ADM AgraVedic dosha from becoming aggravated. […]

Stuffed to the Gills

The most decadent food of all is the kind that (a) is dipped in butter and (b) leaves a huge pile of indigestible crap on the plate: shells, stems, peels, or in this case, stripped artichoke leaves. I never thought of artichokes as either decadent or very filling until tonight - the volume of discarded […]