09 Saturday Jun 2012
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This year I got to spend Valentine’s Day with two people that I love very much. I am sitting on a train to Tarrytown kind of daydreaming and I found myself thinking about the meal we had that night. I boiled some lobsters, grilled some skirt steaks that were marinated in a red curry sauce, grated a fresh som tam, and mashed potatoes with coconut milk. I want to make another special meal for these two. Do you have any ideas?
09 Saturday Jun 2012
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On a walk through First Calvary Cemetery in Queens recently I found some wild chives.
This grass had gone to seed and looked good enough to eat!
If you get a chance, you should visit this amazing cemetery. One entrance is off Greenpoint Ave. The chapel in the back looks like it’s got giant stone pinecones for a roof!
08 Friday Jun 2012
After the raw meat buffet at Picnic Garden today, we stopped at Nak Won. We saw a cool cake that said: “Happy 100 Days!”
I bought some snacks that were shaped by a simple squeeze in the palm of a hand. They reminded me of something I made in a ceramics class.
08 Friday Jun 2012
07 Thursday Jun 2012
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The Montana Society hosted their 8th Annual Rocky Mountain Oyster Festival a few weeks ago in Arlington, VA at an American Legion Hall. This year the castrated bulls’ testicles were peeled and thinly sliced. Here is a picture of them in a tray right before they were fried.
06 Wednesday Jun 2012
My students brought it some awesome snacks today. In the case of the orange, it was more an awesome technique. The kid was slurping out the juice from each segment. Another kid brought this rice and cacahuazintle corn mélange. I asked her to ask her mom for the recipe!
05 Tuesday Jun 2012
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Does anyone know if cattail pollen season is over? I hope not! If I can get my hands on some I am going to make some macarons using cattail pollen in the shells and acorn tapenade in the middle!
Although… this reminds me of the time I used chestnut flour to make macarons and I had to describe them as “rustic” because they were so lumpy and bumpy. They tasted really good though.
The best macaron I ever made, however, was the lobster macaron with lemon butter in the middle! My magnum opus. Let’s see if I can find a picture!
05 Tuesday Jun 2012
I just picked up my order of macarons from Dana’s Bakery! They look even better than on the website!
The Fruity Pebbles macaron was calling my name and I tried it even though it was still a bit cold from the fridge at Corrado Bakery where I picked it up.
It was amazing!!! It tastes like a bowl of Fruity Pebbles cereal and had a unique texture because it seems like there are actual bits of cereal in the shell. I loved it and can’t wait to try the other ones!
05 Tuesday Jun 2012
Last week I went to Pado Sushi in Flushing and enjoyed live sea cucumber and possibly sea squirt. My friend asked the waiter if the dark green organism was a sea cucumber and she said it was. What is the other creature? Is it a sea squirt? A snail? Can anyone help me identify it? Thanks!
05 Tuesday Jun 2012
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It’s soft shell crab season and I just stocked up at Kim’s Fish Market on Queens Boulevard in Sunnyside. They are super fresh and only $4.99 for live crabs.
All you have to do it snip off their faces with kitchen scissors, pull out their lungs (AKA devil’s fingers), and yank off their aprons. I dredged them in chick pea flour (besan) from that amazing spice shop on 1st Ave in the East Village. After about three minutes on each side in a frying pan with some high smoke point oil, they were on my plate ready to be inhaled with a little bit of ponzu shōyu.
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