October 15, 2008
I am STILL not knitting Clapotis.
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October 8, 2008
Pumpkin and Bacon Soup
Last night's delicious leftovers reminded me that I failed to talk about this wonderful, easy soup I made. It was so easy that I was able to make it after getting slightly sloshed while watching last Thursday's stupid-ass VP debate.
Our CSA brought us a little sugar pumpkin last week, and I was pretty sure I knew where I could get some decent bacon, so I girded my loins with some gin, watched idiocy in action, then made some soup.
I bought that other squash at the produce market at the Oxbow because I was a-skeered that my little punkin wouldn't be big enough, and I was right. It was a lovely squash, but it sure was hard to peel.
I sauteed some bacon, then added sliced onions, celery and sage.
Then water (I didn't have any stock) got added, then the soup simmered until the squash was soft. The recipe said to put the soup into a blender, but I was traumatized by soup and a blender at a tender age, so I stuck my rhnn thingy into the pot and let it do its immersion-blender-y job.
The soup was garnished with crumbled bacon and sage, and because I was somewhat intoxicated, roasted pumpkin seeds. The seeds didn't exactly work, but they were nice and nutty so we ate them anyway.
Yum. For a soup that used water instead of stock, it was plenty flavorful. The texture was nice and rich and creamy (without cream), and the sweet pumpkin and the sweet-salty bacon were beautiful together. With this we drank Champagne cocktails and wished we could move to Canada.
Posted by Kate at 9:39 AM | Comments (4)September 26, 2008
Miso-and Orange-Roasted Pork Belly
So Nathan's birthday was last week, and I shamelessly used it as an excuse to buy Jennifer McLagan's Fat book. It's really sort of the greatest thing ever, and we decided that we should cook everything in it.
I came home last night with a nice big slab of pork belly and got to work.
The fat on the top of the belly was scored, then I made and applied to it a paste of red miso, honey, brown sugar, garlic, ginger and orange zest. The belly got a blast of heat in a hot oven, then roasted it slowly.
It was almost brainlessly easy, and totally delicious. I served it with mashed potates and some steamed bok choi. I'd thought about making rice, but was glad I hadn't, as the pan sauce made the most kickass gravy for the potatoes. The clean, bitter bok choi was a perfect foil to the sweet, unctuous pork and its crispy, fragrant crust.
Taking the "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" path to food and wine pairing, we had a 2007 "Jean Baptiste" Gunderloch Riesling Kabinett recommended by one of my peeps at the Oxbow Wine Merchant. It was sweet but nicely acidic, and the fruit flavors were lovely with the orangey pork belly.
Afterward, we passed out on the couch in a porky stupor.
Posted by Kate at 9:42 AM | Comments (6)September 24, 2008
three down
Despite some early cockups...
...the shows are starting to come together really nicely. If you're bored and/or thirsty, you should come on down to Faire. You know you want to. All the cool kids are coming to visit.
Posted by Kate at 9:46 AM | Comments (2)September 17, 2008
ALIENS ATE MY BACON!!!
Oh, my GOD! I'm in the New York Post!!!!!
(It's SO not beef, by the way, it's slabs of delicious delicious bacon, but OH, MY GOD, I'm in the NEW YORK FUCKING POST! Is that the coolest thing EVER?)
p.s. Note to self: wear lipstick to work, you dumbass.
Posted by Kate at 11:09 PM | Comments (12)September 11, 2008
and now for something completely the same
I am too filled with ennui to talk about work (I permanently smell like bacon, all the neighborhood cats want to lick me), the non-knitting (do you love that purple cardigan on the cover of the new Knitty? I do.), Sarah Palin (SKANK), or the house (we could have bought light fixtures for half the house on what we spent and are about to spend on emergency plumbing).
Instead, here's a most excellent picture that Richard took of me last weekend at Faire. Come on down! We're onstage at noon, two and four every weekend! Bring tomatoes! (My god, I just pimped my show.)
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September 2, 2008
Oscar Challenge: 1941
I am such a slacker. We watched the pertinent 1941 flick before we moved, and I haven't written about it. It's partly because I am super lazy, and partly because I intended to watch Citizen Kane before I did my writeup, and partly because How Green Was My Valley is SO DEPRESSING.
It's apparently too depressing to write about. I've had this window open for THREE DAYS while I've tried to express how beautiful and sad this film is, but I can't do it. I am apparently not interested in telling you how little I liked Suspicion (nothing new, I've never liked it) either. Screw it. I'm going to go watch Mrs. Miniver.
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