Dan in France

Reblog if you're going to any of the HARMONTOWN tour stops

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:14:14 -0500

levelfivelaserlotus:

Let’s take a head count.

atl

amajor7: IS IT… DOES THIS… NO MORE MITT ROMNEY’S FACE???

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 00:34:20 -0500

amajor7:

IS IT… DOES THIS… NO MORE MITT ROMNEY’S FACE???

Question of the Day

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 20:16:35 -0400

korranation:

Korra Nation,

Now that you’ve all gotten a glimpse into the new Korra universe, we have a question we’d love to pick your brain on:

If you could have any single piece of Korra swag, what would it be? A Naga dog bowl? A Fire Ferrets t-shirt? A waterbending water bottle? Reblog, comment and let us know!

-Team Korra

4/8/2012

definitely something from the metal bender police

MURK AVENUE: I FOUND ICE CUBES 'GOOD DAY'

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:23:11 -0500

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…

neil-gaiman: That embarrassing moment when you are caught...

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:30:35 -0500

neil-gaiman:

That embarrassing moment when you are caught breaking the law that you are proposing.

i feel like aziz ansari should be blogging this

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 01:29:00 -0500

i feel like aziz ansari should be blogging this

Lanvin for H&M

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 20:22:01 -0400

Lanvin for H&M

Ben does the Dougie

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 19:04:46 -0400

Ben does the Dougie

History of Flight

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 09:40:33 -0400

History of Flight

Does anyone else find this title as funny as I do?

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:45:25 -0400

Does anyone else find this title as funny as I do?

Rediscovering Salsa

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:41:00 -0400

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

Nutella Cupcakes

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:51:41 -0500

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 of moisture to the cake. In fact, it dries out in the baking and completely cancels out the “self icing” eponym.

Thats when I realized “I have a lot of leftover nutella, why dont i just put it on top, like a normal cupcake” and voila:

darn good cupcake

Pineapple Glazed Chicken

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:11:00 -0500

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 great is you can do most of the prep work while the chicken is cooking.

I meant to serve it with Bobby Flay’s blue cornbread, but instead just used some nice chips instead

Here are some thoughts:

I left the cilantro out, but added garlic in its place

I used white pineapple, it was really cool

I feel like the pictures dont do the glaze justice, but it turned out really well.

The Salsa

The Chicken

Cakes to Dream on

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:14:00 -0500

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

Snow in Atlanta

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:51:00 -0500

Snow in Atlanta

Caponata

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:46:00 -0500

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 finishing touch heres the rundown:

Pros: lots of veggies, fun active work

Cons: too salty, lots boring prep work

But look at how beautiful it turned out

I served it with some mozzarella garlic tortellini

I didn’t make the crostini because I got lazy, however, you can get pretty much the same result by making toast

On a related note I have been really into buying bread at panera bread co. lately. Its right off campus and a little fresh bread really takes the meal to a whole other level

For the caponata I bought this asiago cheese demi-baguette

but I’ve also recently bought bread bowls for my baked eggs

and a loaf of sourdough to go with my goulash (from January’s bon appetit)

more posts to come later today when I’m bored in the library

Polish Dinner

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:19:00 -0500

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 uncooked because of the 1/2c water the recipe calls for, but instead I used boiled rice and left the water out—a wise decision I felt.

Speaking of water, I also left it out of the sauce, using just the pureed tomatoes, and never draining the can. This just comes down to a question of how thin you want your sauce to be, and honestly, I could have thinned it out a little, but it really wasnt a big concern of mine.

The major change I made to the recipe was I used turkey instead of ground beef—much healthier. While this may have made me err a little on the bland side, its easily fixed with salt, pepper, and more sauce

The table

Nueva Salsa

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:52:00 -0500

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

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:47:00 -0500

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

sweet potato enchiladas

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:24:00 -0500

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 like)

Additionally I subbed refried beans for black beans, because…come on

I served them with chips and a few extra tortillas

the enchiladas

Making them was super fun and easy, however, the most fun was not the preparation, but the presentation. I used my new kitchen bowl set to serve them with salsa, spanish olives, sour cream, diced onion, and extra refried bean

the condiment spread

the whole table

it was so nice to have the house to ourselves, we ate and talked and got to listen to this

i know its cuban, but it really completed the atmosphere