January 2012
2 posts
MURK AVENUE: I FOUND ICE CUBES 'GOOD DAY' →
murkavenue:
CLUE 1: “went to short dogs house, they was watching Yo MTV RAPS” Yo MTV RAPS first aired: Aug 6th 1988 CLUE 2: Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on: Feb 23 1993 CLUE 3: ”The Lakers beat the Super Sonics” Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release…
November 2010
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October 2010
2 posts
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History of Flight →
July 2010
1 post
WatchDoes anyone else find this title as funny as I do?
March 2010
1 post
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Rediscovering Salsa →
since I posted Nueva Salsa a while ago, I thought this would be a good follow up
pictures of pulled pork, and chicken with mushroom sauce coming soon
February 2010
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Nutella Cupcakes
So I found this recipe on FEISTYCOOK and it looked deliciously simple, and since they’re “self frosting” you get to skip the worst part about making cupcakes. Plus, I’ve never made a baking post on this site and it seemed a good time to start.
The cupcakes turned out reasonably well, and the marbling looks really cool, but I was hoping that the nutella would add a level...
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Pineapple Glazed Chicken
This is my welcome back from the weekend, and happy soon to be march.
With regards to the latter, my new bon appetit came and I thought the recipes this month looked much more appealing than the february issue. The first thing I made out of it was Pineapple Glazed Chicken with Jalepeno Salsa.
This recipe was great because it was really fast and easy—less than 25 minutes total. Whats...
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Cakes to Dream on →
Meet Colette Peters, the woman* arguably responsible for President Clinton’s arterial troubles yesterday.
She was making fondant cakes way before it became the basis for most TLC programming, and since the library is closed due to snow, I am sitting at home looking at cake
*along with Ronald McDonald
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Caponata
I’ve been meaning to post this for a while, and am just now finding the time
(aka procrastinating thesis work)
Earlier this week I made the Caponata found here
The most fun part by far was frying the eggplant, it reminded me of the food we would get at le marais in paris. I didn’t add any basil because its expensive and I didn’t have any, but the red wine vinegar was a great...
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Polish Dinner
tonight I made cabbage rolls and pierogi, (served with sour cream, of course) and while I have made pierogi from scratch before, tonight i just used the frozen kind.
The recipe for the cabbage rolls can be found here
Overall it turned out pretty well, but I had a few problems with the recipe,
for one, I didn’t know whether the rice was supposed to be cooked or uncooked, I figured...
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Nueva Salsa →
this has always been one of my favorite cookbooks. I love the color and presentation, and it presents a really interesting take on what should be a meal staple
ps little known trick -using book previews on amazon or google books to get recipes
iNudge electronic music →
I found this website on stumbleupon and its pretty cool, made me feel like brian eno
The “songs” I made were done using commonly found patterns in Conway’s Game of Life and picking a random tempo (60-180) from random.org
heres one I made
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sweet potato enchiladas
tonight, I made sweet potato enchiladas with a recipe i got here, at budgetbytes
of course, I had to put my own spin on it.
Instead of flour tortillas i used corn, which allow for more, smaller enchiladas, have a much grittier texture, and in my mind, a much better flavor. This substitution also allowed me to leave the corn out of the salad (as well as the cilantro, which Genna doesn’t...
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A New Direction
while I haven’t been in france for some time, this blog has been effectively dead.
however, tonight I am giving it new life. Effective with this post I am taking it in the eponymous new direction. One of the things about me is I love to cook, and so I am using tumblr as a means to share that with the world making daninfrance my new food blog.
Up next, enchiladas
January 2010
2 posts
Mr. Hudson featuring Kanye
Anyone but him
the best interview ever →
i know its been a while since i tumbld, but this was worth it
July 2009
3 posts
Montparnasse Cemetery
Today we had our last “emory sponsored” excursion. For this one we got frappes at the maison du chocolate,
afterwards I had some extra time and went to the Montparnasse Cemetary which is only two blocks from me and I’ve wanted to explore it for the past 5 weeks
Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir
Baudelaire
Monument to Memory
Beckett
I left this note at...
Reims and Versailles
This week our program took its last to daytrips
one to Reims on Tuesday and one to Versailles yesterday
Reims is in the champagne region and was basically an excuse to get drunk on emorys dime, not only that, but we also had a delicious lunch where i ate enough foie gras to explode
Versailles was as decadent as I dreamed it would be, and because of our tour, we got to go in the chapel which is...
June 2009
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St. Denis
Today noah and I went to the Canals at St. Martin and then to the Basilica of St. Denis where all the royal families are buried, it was really cool, but has been so hot in paris lately!
I miss air conditioning
The Canal
St Denis
Noah and Francois I
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
Henri and Catherine de Medici
The past week
I havent really posted anything since london, but have been super busy running all over paris, Sacre Coeur, Comedie Francais, La Place des Victoires…
Earlier this week we saw The Bald Soprano by Ionesco (in french, which lost some of the humor in translation)
on Friday, Genna and I went out for frog legs in the latin quarter, and then to Club Duplex
Saturday was the Paris Pride Parade,...
LONDON FOOD FAIR
too amazing for words, free samples of foie gras that made me cry they were so good
Lee Brothers
The Food Fair
Delicious meat
Fish 'n Chips
Just got back from the long weekend in london last night and only now do i have the time or energy to upload some pictures
It was a fantastic time, we got in, promptly got lost and sketched out by a fight on the national rail
The first night we got fish and chips (by the way salt and vinegar are the two best things ever invented) and went to the pub under our hostel
On saturday we went into...
The Pantheon
5 euros to enter?! F that
here are the pictures from outside
london tomorrow
-dan
noah added his budapest pictures
here are some of them
Giverny
Today we visited Claude Monet’s home in Giverny, Normandy.
Monet’s house and garden
The water lilies
The Japanese bridge
For lunch we had a huge four-plate meal staring with a tomato-basil mousse with scallions, followed by smoke salmon on polenta with a green salad and a wasabi cream, served with a Reisling. The main dish was roasted chicken with vegetables served with some red wine,...
L'arc de triomphe
Yesterday we went to the arc de triomphe, it was pretty cool, but hard to get a good picture of because of all the stuff on champs elysees
View from under
View of the Louvre from the top
La Grande Arche at Le Defense
Budapest
So I would love to write a post detailing all the cool things i did in budapest, but not speaking a word of magyar, i dont really know what most of this stuff is, so please forgive the bad captions and overly vague term “sightseeing”
…also my camera was out of battery at the beginning and end of the trip, but noahs camera is much better anyway so ill post some more and better...
Chambord et Chateau de Blois
Chambord Castle
The view from the top
deBois
The Courtyard
I leave for Budapest on friday so I’ll probably post something after then, in the meantime if anyone has an idea of what to do there, shoot me an email
Loire Valley, Day 2
The next day we went to Chateau Chenonceaux, the once home of Catherine DeMedici, a WWI hospital, and WWII free passage zone
The Castle
The Hedge Maze
Me and my friends at the center of the maze (with asian tourist poses)
The DeMedici Gardens
The dining room at restaurant l’Orangerie
Afterwards we went to the Domaine des Roy Vineyards and learned about (and tasted) the wines of...
The view from your window (Loire Valley edition)
That night, we stayed at the domaine de beauvois, for anyone interested, here is what we ate for dinner: Gourmandise de saumon frais et fume aux herbes avec crème au curry * * Supreme de pintade farci aux herbes et champignons, brochette de legumes ** Creneux chocolat au Coeur croustillant praline, glace chocolat passion
Zee Meazlez!
Soon after, we stopped at Chateau de Langeais, a medieval chateau
Langeais
Rampart
Oh Hai! We can be on bagz now?
This is the church, this is the steeple
Chartres Our first stop was the town of Chartres home to a huge cathedral and not much else
Here are some views of the and church
here is the town as seen from the top of the church
un ange
me and my friends on the tour bus
Hey everyone, I just got back from the Loire Valley and there is a lot to tumble about so get ready for a large series of posts
WWQD?
What Would Quasimodo Do?
Yesterday we returned to Notre Dame to climb the towers (and also because it is a 2 minute walk from the best ice cream in Paris)
Here are the views of paris from the top:
Sacre Coeur
View over Paris towards le Defense, if you look closely you can see the Arc
The Gargoyle (and the South Bank)
The Pantheon
Afterwards we went to the Galleries at Lafayette,...
l'Opera
We saw a Proust Ballet at l’Opera Garnier. I was exhausted during the first act, but after a caffeine boost at intermission I was able to really enjoy act II. Here are the pictures of the building:
This is the Ceiling, it was really hard for me to get a good picture of it, they either come out dark or blurry, but it illustates some of the most famous operas, that blue splotch is the...
Musee D'Orsay
The musee d’orsay is simply amazing, not only in the art it contains, but also in the building as a whole. I loved going to the top floor and loking through the clocks all the wya to sacre coeur, but alas, i couldn’t capture a good picture of it.
I tried to look at the paintings with the “gaze of the painter” that Dali talks about in his writings and as such only really...
Notre Dame and Avi's adventures in the Seine
We went to Notre Dame yesterday for the Air France memorial service. I got to go inside before it closed though, its a very strange place because such a religious place is such a spectacle, in a very ‘unholy’ way thats why i thought this sign was so funny
On a lighter note my friend Avi lost his wallet in the river, and had to dive after it. Here he is afterwards
Pictures from...
Le Bateau Mouche
We took a ride down the Seine in one of those big tourist boats called a bateau mouche. It only goes about 15 mph but everytime we went under a bridge all the schoolchildren on board would yell WOAHHHHHHH like it was a rollercoaster. It was a fun time though; and you get to see all the landmarks on the waterfront, here are the ones i got decent pictures of
National Assembly
The Louvre
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