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the current winning chocolate chip cookie recipe

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:51:06 -0500

Preheat oven to 375.

In medium bowl sift together: 2 cups all-purpose flour, 1 tsp salt, 1 tsp baking soda. Set it aside.

In large bowl, beat 1 cup soft (not melted) butter [unsalted, use something at least as good as Plugra] with 1 cup packed dark brown sugar and 1/2 cup granulated sugar until creamy. [If you have an electric accoutrement, or really developed muscles, you can use cold butter.] Beat one large egg into the mixture, then another, until incorporated and fluffy. Beat two tsps of vanilla into there. Fold in half the flour mixture, then the rest. When it is all together and smooth, mix in at least one bag of chocolate chips. I have had the best luck with Ghiardelli, but Scharfenberger baking chunks work well, or you can use cheaper chocolate, whatever you want.

Chill the batter to make it easier to form, if you want. I keep my batter covered with parchment paper in the freezer in between batches.

Put one tablespoon, semi-spherical, bits of batter on a parchment-lined baking sheet - no more than 12. Resist the urge to make really big cookies unless you are working with a hotter oven and very cold batter, I think.

12 minutes in the oven. Let rest for 5 minutes. Makes a little over 30 cookies.

my favorite thing about this picture is how good i was at...

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:47:14 -0500

my favorite thing about this picture is how good i was at erasing chris’s name from the top.

dinner

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:02:00 -0500

Baked Quinoa With Spinach and Cheese

I (barely) modified this NYTimes recipe. My modifications were all cheapening steps, as well. So. Boil water with chicken or vegetable boullion cubes, and use that to prepare 1 cup of uncooked quinoa.

Follow the recipe steps for wilting the spinach and cooking everything together. Since i’m not a huge onions fan, i extra cook the onions until they start to get a little caramel-y. I also used 3 garlic cloves instead of 2. Why not?

Unless you have access to cheap fresh herbs, I’d substitute a shake of poultry seasoning (it’s mostly sage) for the fresh sage, and cheap brand swiss cheese instead of gruyere (this choice was necessary for me, because i live at the 10km mark of the NYC marathon and could not cross the street to have more cheese access).

It’s a pretty simple recipe if you prepare your ingredients in advance (which I have to do because I have no knife skills.)

Eat it. It’s good for fall.

anarchivist: Primehouse chef Rick Gresh’s bacon candle...

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:37:53 -0400

anarchivist:

Primehouse chef Rick Gresh’s bacon candle reportedly smells as good as it tastes, and the in-house butcher shop sells it to guests. … We’re told his candle is made with rendered bacon fat and stands two inches tall with a vegetable base wick; once lit the candle lets off a bacon aroma and is then poured over dry aged beef, scallop sashimi, “or any other delectable treat worthy enough to be covered in bacon.

Edible Bacon Fat Candle Is Here to Tease NYC - Gothamist

When i told my best friend about this bacon fat candle, he literally giggled for 20 minutes straight.

one year, every day, kate and i split a can of sprite and ate...

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:22:21 -0400

one year, every day, kate and i split a can of sprite and ate brown rice with soy sauce and sriracha on it for lunch. it never got old.

how to make a pork chops dinner

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:14:00 -0400

ingredients:

4 pork chops boned or boneless, no one cares
salt
pepper
2 golden delicious apples, or other brand
the end of a bottle of maple syrup, so you can kick it and get a new one
dried cranberries, maybe 1/4 cup
more butter than you care to admit, perhaps 3/4 stick, salted
cinnamon
sugar
green beans, buy more than you think you’ll need
some type of oil, maybe vegetable or canola, but probably not olive
nuts, optional

the first step in cooking this dinner for 4 persons is to plug your portable mp3 device into a loud, portable, all-weather radio, press play. feel free to sing along.

clean the green beans, cut off the ends. core the apples. people say to peel them, too, but why? don’t peel them. chop the cored apple into roughly 2 cm cubes, but don’t get hung up on making them cubular. set green beans in a colander, apples in a cereal bowl. pour end of maple syrup bottle onto apples, add granulated sugar as needed, mix with dried cranberries and some cinnamon shakes. set aside.

set oven to 175 F. put salted water on to boil.

put some oil in pan. salt and pepper pork chops. when oil is hot, cook two chops at a time, maybe 3 minutes per side. if you’re me, you’ll freak out, worry that the chops are not cooked all the way through, panic, pour some water in the pan, causing oil splatter, cover the pan and create a steam pan for an additional minute or so. take pork chops out of the pan and place them in a baking dish that you’ve had sitting in the warm oven. repeat until all your pork chops are in the dish. (please don’t do the steam thing, it’s probably a bad idea.)

melt a lot of butter in the frying pan, maybe half a stick. add the apple mix and cook it down for awhile. at this point the water is probably boiling, so put the green beans in it. when the apples are soft, pull them out, put them in the warm baking dish with the pork chops, and reduce the liquid in the frying pan ‘til it gets “thicker.” pour that on top of pork chops and apples. add nuts if you want.

drain green beans, return to pot with butter, salt, pepper.

et.

nobodysdiary: Make sure to stop by 395 Flatbush Extension on...

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:21:41 -0400

nobodysdiary:

Make sure to stop by 395 Flatbush Extension on Sunday 10/18 for NADA’s County Affair. I hear there will be Watteau-Tarot readings, and much much more! Info here!

baby finnish rappers (via WMFinland)

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:34:48 -0400

baby finnish rappers (via WMFinland)

Red Boldface: Stuyvesant Bee, Volume 1, Issue 81 I think I...

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:02:06 -0400

Red Boldface: Stuyvesant Bee, Volume 1, Issue 81

I think I started reading this via goodjobbb. Not for sures, though. Either way, whenever a new stuyvesant bee pops up in the google reads, it’s bound to be a good day. Saturn return, notwithstanding.

via archiculturefilm.com

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:50:32 -0400

via archiculturefilm.com

yay (via anarchivist)

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:59:17 -0400

yay (via anarchivist)

"It’s not a statement,” Ms. Byrne said. “Walking around New York, it doesn’t feel really tropical, it..."

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:41:23 -0400

““It’s not a statement,” Ms. Byrne said. “Walking around New York, it doesn’t feel really tropical, it just feels like a necessity.””

- I know we’ve all already read this one.

:.. of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes interviews Daryl Hall and...

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:07:44 -0400

:.. of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes interviews Daryl Hall and John Oates Part 1 | Under The Radar ..:

when the seasons change it is important to change your most...

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:57:28 -0400

when the seasons change it is important to change your most listened to springsteen song. racing in the street is for fall this year.

this is a highly successful recipe. you should eat it. Dishing...

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:19:10 -0400

this is a highly successful recipe. you should eat it.

Dishing Up Delights: Spicy Black-Bean Cakes

ATP ATP ATP ATP ATP ATP ATP ATP ATP ATP ATP I’M GOING TO...

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:22:35 -0400

ATP ATP ATP ATP ATP ATP ATP ATP ATP ATP ATP I’M GOING TO HAVE A HEART ATTACK.

Borscht Belt Bohemia | All Tomorrow’s Parties - The Moment Blog...

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:35:42 -0400

Borscht Belt Bohemia | All Tomorrow’s Parties - The Moment Blog - NYTimes.com

is it time to go, yet?

sailors.

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:46:18 -0400

sailors.

"I had always heard from everyone else that Jack White was always in the right and that everyone else..."

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:56:12 -0400

“I had always heard from everyone else that Jack White was always in the right and that everyone else was always in the wrong and that Jack doesn’t even acknowledge questions about the event because it was so minuscule and unimportant to the big picture that is Jack White.”

- Want To See Something Funny? : Eat This City - Detroit | NOM NOM NOM

Oh look. It lives on.

i know that this has been internetted to death, but perhaps some...

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:23:06 -0400

i know that this has been internetted to death, but perhaps some of you would lilke to virtually join my work pizza party?