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For tonight’s dinner plan, I’m doing the same thing that I did last year, a variation of Rachel Ray’s Christmas Pasta recipe. I find her base recipe simply has too much meat in it, mine will be more like a amatriciana sauce, with onions and red pepper flake, seasoned with some sweet and some spicy […]

I’ve mused about potroast before on my blog, but it’s such a great (and now overlooked) dish when it came up on Slashfood I thought it deserved a link. A couple of additional comments on the recipe presented: This is a long cooking recipe, so if you want any of the vegetables to actually be […]

Well, today is one of those rare days when I miss two days of work: I’m home sick with body aches, a headache, stuffed head, and a bit of a fever. I was also a bit hungry, so I decided to dig through the fridge, freezer and pantry to see what I could make. I […]

While watching Food Network the other day, I saw an episode of Calorie Commando that featured a dish I thought I might like to try: Buffalo Chicken and Blue Cheese Dipping Sauce. I gave this a whack this weekend. Basically I took a bunch of chicken breasts that I had lying around, and cut them […]

Courtesy of lifehacker, here is the account of one intrepid hacker attempting to learn the secrets of egg poaching. Interestingly, he comes up with a solution that I’ve never heard of before. I did have a couple of thoughts though. His attempt to use the conventional method (simmering water bath) was flawed by something simple: […]

While I was out touring wine country this last weekend, I began to think a bit more about something that I’ve only recently become to realize: that many of the foods which are handed down to us over the years are only edible because of the actions of other critters. Beer, bread, and wine all […]

Yeah, my blog was a little sparse on the nerd front this weekend: Carmen and I were off for a short anniversary getaway in Napa, sampling some of the local food and wine and generally trying to relax. We give a hearty thumbs up to Julia’s restaurant in the Copia center in Napa. We began […]

I haven’t posted any of my culinary explorations lately, so I thought that I would rectify this wrong by detailing something that I tried for yesterday’s dinner. I’m a huge fan of pulled pork, especially in the form of barbecue pork sandwiches. I like getting a toasted bunn, piling it with this shredded pork, and […]

While I was on Julian’s website, I noticed that he still hadn’t mastered the fine art of meat loaf. I thought that he should check out Good Eats Meat Loaf for inspiration. It’s not a perfect recipe, but it’s not bad. They use a mixture of ground chuck and ground sirloin to get the right […]

I’m fascinated by old cookbooks and the like, which is why I found The Cyder-Maker’s Instructor, Sweet-Maker’s Assistant, and Victualler’s and Housekeeper’s Director to be interesting. I mean really, who thinks about making cider anymore? Old knowledge, preserved.

A special circle of hell is reserved just for this guy, where rabbits will gnaw on this guys privates for eternity while munching on carrots whose greens resemble dollar bills. That dog won’t hunt, Monsenior. Update: I’ve been had. Check out Snopes. (Thanks John!)

I’m about as much of a technology geek as you can imagine, but when I read the Slashdot headline Sushi Prepared on a Printer I must admit, my inner geek packed it’s bags and ran away, leaving the inner gourmand to merely shake his head. You see, I have a philosophy about food. Take good […]

Wikipes is a cool site which creates a global cookbook using Wiki technology. There aren’t a whole lot of recipes yet, and they seem to be less sophisticated than those on epicurious, but I like the idea.

Not content with OpenCola? How ’bout Our Beer instead? It does have one drawback: It is based on classic ale brewing traditions but with added guarana for a natural energy-boost. Call me a purist, but that seems, well, wrong.

While researching Cory Doctorow, I found he founded a company called Opencola. Now defunct, the primary result of their company seems to have been the release of an open source softdrink recipe, released under the GPL. Wacky!