Archive for March, 2011

Mustard Mustard Mustard – Part 1

Ham and School House Mustard with Dill Pickles and Potato Chips on a Pretzel Roll

I was recently sent a jar of SchoolHouse Kitchen Horseradish Dill Mustard to play with and share on Foodzie.com. The task at hand was to create some food, blog about it and then stuff my face (well, that’s my addition). The mustard was so delicious that I OCD’s it and made three things. Here is one of them. Expect two more mustard-loving posts…

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Mofongo Me All Night Long

Mofongo

Mofongo. The word alone sounds like something you yell at another person in the height of passionate anger or passionate lub makin. Either way, I want to use it more often. But in real real life? It’s actually fried mashed plantains with garlic aioli, pork bits and fresh cilantro. And let me let you know…
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What I Learned in The New Yorker Review of “The Mad Genius of ‘Modernist Cuisine’”

Things like how I need to stop sharing glasses of water with my cat cause she cleans her asshole with the same tongue she drinks water with. I know it sounds like I should have known better before and should have been grossed out already but I just kinda thought that their-mouths-are-cleaner-than-our-hands kinda thing. Isn’t that true?? Something like that…

“The discussion of poo-eating in “Modernist Cuisine” is exhaustive, convincing, and gag-inducing. According to the microbiologist Philip Tierno, “We’re basically bathed in feces as a society.” “Bathed in feces”—not words you often read in a cookbook, but apparently poo-eating accounts for about eighty per cent of all food-related illness. Also, cat litter in the kitchen? Bad news. Toxoplasma gondii, a species of protozoa present in cat litter, kills three hundred and seventy-five Americans a year, and perpetuates itself through cat feces in a freaky way: when rodents eat toxoplasmii, their brain chemistry is changed so that they develop an attraction to the smell of cats. There’s no happy ending.”

How utterly awesome. Meow!

Chanterelle the cat

Grilled Octopus Salad AKA Insalata di Pulpo AKA Happy Mouth

Grilled Octopus Salad aka Insalata di Pulpo

I recently spent time in Chile and Peru and ate as much pulpo as possible. Now that I’m back in New York among the heaps of calamari, I’m starting to think that octopus is the highschool reject in this calamari-ran prom. You find grilled and fried calamari up the ying yang, but its dear relative gets the back seat in this popularity contest. So, what’s a fatty to do but honor this 8-legged freak at home in a delicious vinegary salad and love on its sweet chew?

Since octopus is far from what I know how to cook, I found this reasonable recipe… Read more…