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Sebastienne at the Kemper.
Friday night was my last night in Kansas City. We went to the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art to have dinner at Sebastienne. We ate before going to the galleries, Oona ordering a dirty martini and I a local pale … Continue reading 
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Real Farmer’s Markets
I’m in Kansas City. They open at 5:00 AM. Richmond’s Farmer’s markets are for lazy slackers.
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The future beckons.
Oona has accepted a position in Kansas City. She flies out Wednesday and I show up Friday with the land yacht packed to the gills and fly back here the beginning of September. Got a year to sell the place.. … Continue reading 
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London Broil con Recado para Bistek
A recado is a paste or rub for roasting meat, fowl or fish. A annatto/achiote based recado is used in Yucatecan pibil cookery. Recados are not unlike Jamaican jerk rub, which also uses allspice, black pepper, and herbs. Trans-Caribbean influences … Continue reading 
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Die, Foodie, die!
Being a “foodie” is so over. (snork) from Jason Sheehan (a former chef, now a food writer in Seattle): Patrick wrote a post, collecting his thoughts about Mexican food, quote-unquote traditional cuisine and foodies. In it, he decided that what … Continue reading 
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It’s “palate” not “palette”.
No wonder our economy is going to hell in a handbasket. You folks can’t spell for beans. And I’d expect you artsy types would know “palette”. Used my grill wok this weekend on marinated beef tips, zucchini, poblanos, & mushrooms.
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Wonderful Moroccan cooking blog!!
It’s in French, but there’s a translation widget for English, Arabic, German, Spanish, & Italian. There are some really nice recipes here. www.nahedcuisine.com Here’s her take on couscous.. Perso, cela fait des années que j’ai arrêté de consommer le couscous … Continue reading 
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Menudo at El Vaquero
I’ve had a hankering for menudo for a couple of weeks. (from wikipedia) The soup menudo is a traditional Mexican dish, made with hominy and tripe in a clear broth or occasionally with a red chile base (this variation is … Continue reading 
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Honoring Consumerism in Tiny Bird Bites.
Friday was the birthday of the sociologist and economist, Thorstein Veblen. (from wikipedia) Besides his technical work he was a popular and witty critic of capitalism, as shown by his best known book The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899). … Continue reading 
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A musing on barbecue:
From EATING OUR WORDS, a Houston Foodblog collective: Growing up, we never ate barbecue in a restaurant. The entire idea was anathema ……. You made barbecue at home. It took all day. You invited the family over when it was … Continue reading 
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AP article on Classes in Butchery.
So you ain’t from Butcher Holler. Wonder if this will fly in our environs. You need to deal with the gut pile. Dogs love ‘em. Going whole hog: Foodies learn the art of butchery By TERENCE CHEA (AP) – 47 minutes … Continue reading 
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Weekend Notes.
We had house guests from Texas who had been hiking the Appalachian Trail for the past month this weekend. I smoked a pork loin and we had several salads, including a French lentil, goat cheese & arugula salad which was … Continue reading 
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Cerro Azul mitotically divides and moves east.
Flat Rock’s traditional Mexican restaurant CERRO AZUL has opened another branch in the Midlothian Station Center. Where Hancock Fabrics & The Thrifty Quaker are. It’s at Midlothian Turnpike & Coal Field Road. Tell them they need to bring back Bohemia … Continue reading 
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Something “new” to do at a picnic..
Bury the remains.. from Retronaut “Today, 27 years later, a group of French scientists have brought the artistic event back to life by exhuming the meal, this time with the serious aim of testing the latest archaeological techniques. Slowly, bits … Continue reading 
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El Vaquero again!!
Oona got back from Oregon and we went to El Vaquero tonight. She had the chicken quesadilla plate (with rice, beans & salad) and I had carne asada gorditas. And we each had a glass of horchata. The owner brought us out a complementary bowl of their Friday special, caldo de res. Which is a [...]
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Another good thing about Martin’s
They have the nicest okra in town. Krogers & Food Dog okra always looks beat up and why the hell do the folks at the Farmer’s Markets let ‘em get so damn big?
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Making pesto & pasta on the Fourth
We had planned to make pesto yesterday and cut a bunch of basil while it was still cool and put it in the fridge. I made it using the Marcella Hazan cookbook (The Classic Italian Cook Book: The Art of Italian Cooking and the Italian Art of Eating: 1973) with pine nuts and Palestinian olive [...]
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WS Merwin (who knows food) named poet laureate
you gen-xers & millenials may not get this.. pity, that. In Time (from 1999) by W. S. Merwin The night the world was going to end when we heard those explosions not far away and the loudspeakers telling us about the vast fires on the backwater consuming undisclosed remnants and warning us over and over [...]
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Frankie Laine & Judas Priest/Doris Day (or “How Lovely Cooks the Meat”)
Here’s a bit of music from a different time and place. It’s got a lot of feeling, don’t you think? Maybe Bobby Flay and Paula Deen could use this as a theme song; or Bourdain & Sandra Lee.
