November 2011
1 post
I might be obsessed with beets...
…or with the farmers’ market guy, because I bought beets from him again, and this time I made.. drumroll… Ćwikła! (No, I have no idea to pronounce the Polish.) It’s basically grated roasted beets mixed with horseradish. I just have no idea what to do with it now because it’s a relish, I have a lot of it, and I have no meat. I guess I could just eat it with...
October 2011
7 posts
1 tag
Ways to Make Tuna Salad Better
Canned tuna mixed with mayonnaise isn’t bad, along with whatever else you’re eating with it. But I’ve added some things to the mixture itself that make it significantly more delicious.
Diced celery, salt, and black pepper are standard. I’ve also added things like…
diced raw red onion (white onion works, too)
lemon or lime juice (add a little at a time till you...
Stuffed Bell Peppers (Vegetarian)
I made this over the summer, adapted from a recipe I found online meant for a slow cooker. I made it in the oven, and it was amazing!
I think it’s fitting how my “before” and “after” pictures are accompanied by a wardrobe change…
The recipe is for 6 peppers, but I increased it to make 8 because I wanted more foooood.
Ingredients:
6 large bell peppers...
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Beet Soup
I need to charge my camera battery, so all I could do was take a picture of the final product with my laptop’s Photo Booth. Beet soup served with sour cream and parsley:
The beets are from the super nice guy at the Farmers’ Market. I was surprised this actually turned out really good! I’m even bold enough to say that someone who doesn’t like beets very much would...
“Flash Light” - Parliament
To enhance...
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The Secret to Cooking Dry Beans...
…is the Dutch oven.
I know, it just looks like a regular pot with handles. That’s pretty much what it is, but the cool thing about it is that it can go on the stovetop AND in the oven. Which, as it turns out, is the secret to cooking dry beans, WITHOUT EVEN HAVING TO SOAK THEM FIRST.
Normally you have to soak them in water overnight and then boil them at just the right...
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Spinach-Ginger-Walnut Pasta with Chicken
Now that I can actually (sort of) cook, here goes my first official food blog post! I’ll get on my game and start taking pictures soon.
Last week, I hadn’t gone grocery shopping in awhile, but I still had a handful of good ingredients, so I decided to just go for it and cook something. The result of throwing together what I had was pretty tasty.
Here are the ingredients you need...
July 2011
1 post
May 2011
17 posts
It pisses me off that they always use this song in...
Laziness Leads to Resourcefulness in the Kitchen
I haven’t gone grocery shopping in more than a month, and lately I’ve been surviving on the free day-old bagels that Uncommon puts out at night. But this week I felt the need to eat a little bit better, so I searched the kitchen for those humble canned goods that got pushed back into the cupboards and abandoned during the course of the semester, while I was probably out buying new...
Swoon.
Glucose makes you think better? →
Does this mean I should drink Gatorade during my final or something?
Bookmarks IV: Collections of music, voices,...
Putumayo World Music. By now I must have collected at least 15 of their albums, but I never have enough.
The International Dialects of English Archive. Primary-source recordings of the dialects of English speakers from all over the U.S. (and Britain) and accents from all over the world. (Not everyone may find this as fascinating as I do…)
The Short Story Classics. A big online library of...
Bookmarks III: The Funny Edition
Damn You, Autocorrect! makes me laugh so hard I cry.
Really any Dave Barry column is hilarious.
Two whole websites dedicated to Awkward Family Photos and Awkward Family Pet Photos pretty much speak for themselves!
Bookmarks II
Face Research: Make An Average. Average together people’s faces from all different ethnicities and see what happens to their attractiveness.
Live Natural Birth. Watch a baby being born…
Or, you could learn how to make the best party drink ever, Hopskip!
Bookmarks
Today was the last day of classes for me, so now the final death scramble begins in earnest. As I was working on an essay today and bookmarking articles to my favorites, I was getting annoyed at how long it was taking me to scroll down to the bottom of my zillions and zillions of bookmarks. I scanned over them and realized I don’t remember visiting half of these websites at all.
Which...
April 2011
6 posts
Wikipedia: boiling frog →
It’s only when I’m really badly behind on work that I somehow wander onto Wikipedia articles like this one. It’s pretty hilarious how so many scientists have gotten worked up about proving/disproving this “boiling frog” phenomenon that’s really just a metaphor!
K, enough of this nonsense: back to work.
March 2011
3 posts
Email I just got from an 8-year-old girl I used to...
Subject: Hello cheesy muffins!!
Hello cheesy muffin people!!! How are you doing today???? GOOD!!??? Did you say good???!!! * bite *. I just ate an evil cheesy muffin!!! Mwa- ha- ha- ha- ha!!!! Big fat unattractive hairy purple camels are chasing me and want to BITE my head off!!!!!!!! Help meeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!! From Torrance
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Blood
What is it that makes blood donation so appealing? I donated for the first time in January and just felt so good about it. I don’t think it was just the feeling of of being “needed” and both healthy and willing to put my drop in the bucket toward the good of society (no pun intended), but also some weird satisfaction about physically giving part of my body. I won’t...
February 2011
3 posts
So, this song just played… it’s from a...
January 2011
10 posts
An unconventional duet between the rarely...
WatchA little taste of what the Kohl household is like.
Wikipedia says:
“The song’s use of...
Keith already posted this awhile back, but...
December 2010
6 posts
“No matter how bad this turns out, I’ll still eat it.”
– What my dad just (kindly?) said to me after watching me attempt my first recipe in my crockpot, a Christmas present for when I’m living in an apartment next semester. I just don’t have a natural knack for cooking. I want to learn, though!
I’m trying a bean dip: I tripled a...
Obviously I would post this one…