What do David Leibovitz, Epicurious, and us here at Boots have in common? Gold chiffon evening wear?
No. We're all on the latest What's the Most Delicous Thing You've Seen (Lately)? on Apartment Therapy! The Kitchn to be specific...
Yup. It's all about cookies and strawberries and beets. Nothing wrong with that.
Check out the between seasons good time.
And just for fun, how about a little more beet porn...
Thanks guys!
Well no. Don't be ridiculous.
I have, however, been in serious hyper-food overdrive.
In an effort to recoup, I've tabled my foodism for the last couple of days and focused on arting my little buns off.
From our travels through Vietnam.
It's like the softer side of Sears but you know, with photography. I've got a little show coming up and I wanted to share a few pieces with all of you talented, good-taste-having people out there.
From a figure studies sequence.
In theory, I'm working on a separate website for my less food focused pictures. Web design isn't my strongest suit, so you know, if any of you kind hearted tech folks have any advice, I'd love to hear it.
An afternoon at an Italian fish market.
Next time we'll be back to some more sweet California adventuring!
Hope you guys like the pics.
-L. Pants
But, hey, it'll be blogged!
This is just the coolest thing ever. Two of our blogfriends, separately inspired by Husbear's post last year about easy home-curing with salmon, tested his bare-bones recipe by making their own! And they were both successful!
Check out the Gastronomer's trial with leftover salmon here, and Albany Jane's gravlox (or perhaps gravtrout?) here.
How awesome is THAT? Thanks, both of you guys, for the links, and the Mr. could not be happier that the gospel of home-curing is spreading from New York to California!
Posting this time of year is difficult, what with the constant driving and seeing of family and eating the BEST FRIED CHICKEN OF MY LIFE for lunch today (coming soon). We'll be back in Austin on Friday, so look for posts to start up again after that.
If you don't want to wait that long for another taste of our sparkling prose, please click on over to Relish Austin, which is Austin American-Statesman food writer Addie Broyles' site of fun. She invited us, along with a few other local bloggers, to guest post over there while she's on her own holiday travel-thon. I hope you enjoy our predictions for food trends in 2009! And agree with them. We're very sensitive.
Meanwhile, Happy Holidays, and may 2009 rock your socks off.
If all your foodblogging friends and contacts and idols jumped off a cliff, Girlie, would you follow?
Nope, but I'll do a meme about eating tasty and strange foods!
This one has been making the rounds for the last six weeks or so. It started out on the UK's own Very Good Taste, then quickly jumped the pond and has been showing up on pretty much every blog I read. (No, that's not exhaustive!) And, hey, it looks like fun, and takes my mind of the impending (ongoing?) collapse of the US economy!
Here are the rules.
Continue reading "Jumpin' on the Funwagon with VGT's Omnivore's One Hundred" »
1. Husbear is fishing with his father and his brother in the back of beyond, south Louisiana. Today, they caught 60 trout, 12 redfish, and a presumably lonely and confused black drum.
2. Girlie is chillaxing with the force of nature otherwise known as Mama Bear. Today we power-shop, and tomorrow the WORLD! Or just New Orleans. Yeah, now that I think about it, definitely New Orleans. A coffee with chicory would sure hit the spot right about eight hours from now.
We head back to Austin on Monday. See you then! (BTW, lots of new Project 366 pics were uploaded at Flickr the other day, so if you haven't stopped by, take a gander.)
Hugs,
Girlieness
If you're normal, this should really only take you ten minutes or so.
It's a great idea I learned about through Paolaccio, who got it from Michelle at Bleeding Espresso.
It's a way to make a pretty representative mosaic using bits of your life and personality. Here's how, if you want your own:
I'm not saying that I did this post from my sexy new iPhone while sitting in a field- but I totally did! I know I'm paragraphs behind, but I don't come from a first adoption kind of family. Call me naive but I can't help feeling a little like I'm on some weird Star Trek episode.
I mean seriously, all this wireless and internets business totally kicks ass.
Alright, enough bragging and amazement. I'm going back to work.
Does anyone know if these things work overseas?
A warm hello and a hail-fellow-well-met to the people who've been visiting due to our being named a Typepad Featured Blog, woot woot! Now I can wear my cute glittery shirt with the Typepad logo without feeling like a total pretender to the throne.
A brief rundown of us - my husband and I have been writing on and off here for, holy crap, three years now. Wow, I really appreciate being made to think of that. I do most of the writing, though Husbear does put in a more than occasional post about something delicious he's concocted. His tasty food bits can be found over in his own Kooking Korner.
We first moved to Austin, Texas in August 2001 after graduating from the University of South Carolina. Go Gamecocks, et cetera, whoop whoop. We've been here ever since, with one pretty major exception - we spent August 2006 through May of 2007 living in Florence, Italy, while Husbear went to cooking school at Apicius.
While we were there, we learned some Italian, figured out how to shop at the amazing local markets, entertained lots of visiting family and friends, and traveled. While we did mostly stay inside Italy, we did make it to a couple of other places in Europe and spent an amazing and not entirely comfortable week in Egypt.
Perhaps the best month we spent there, though, was when we threw on our backpacks and caught a plane to Palermo. Our almost-month spent in Sicily and southern Italy was indescribable, not that that stopped me from using way too many words trying.
We couldn't bear to cut our year of travel short, so we took the long way home to the States through London and on to Hong Kong, Thailand, and Vietnam. I'm still blogging the trip here, because finishing it would mean that we're really back now, Waaa.
So, now we're back in Austin with our cats, putting up pictures on Flickr, working to repay our travel debt, and trying to figure out how soon we can get those backpacks back out of storage. Please comment, and feel free to ask us any travel questions you have!
(Early posts are pretty bad, though I am of course partial to the ones about our 2004 honeymoon in Italy and Greece - some of which aren't awful, I promise.)
Ci vediamo subito,
Girlie
Yes, I'm still here. But I'm listening to the State of the Union address, which renders me unable to blog anything beyond the State of the Union...
8:15 - it would be nice to have a balanced budget.
8:19 - really? Health savings accounts and tax breaks for people that aren't covered through their employers? That would be nice, too.
8:20 - OH HELL NO TORT REFORM BAD BAD BAD KILL.
8:21 - NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND NO WAH WHY BAD BAD!
8:22 - faith-based grants are also not something I enjoy. Ahem. 300 million dollars? From the Pentagon's $500 billion request (which doesn't include monies for Iraq or Afghanistan), perhaps? HA HA I KEED.
8:24 - Made in the USA - what about the Northern Mariana Islanders? Products from there can say "made in the USA" but the workers don't yet have to be paid minimum wage...
8:26 - And, there's the first nukular.
8:30 - no buying, selling, patenting, or cloning of human life. The patenting one may throw a wrinkle in my "make a million by age 30" plan.
Nah, I won't liveblog the whole thing. I'm sure angrier bloggers than I are already out there doing it.
And here's the fact-checking, for you geekazoids! I include myself in this category. You'll have to move from that post to NPR's main blog page for updates.
Hey, if you get bored waiting for a new post, check out my new photo project. A picture a day, every day, for the 366 days of 2008.
So far, I seem to have an unhealthy fixation on alcohol. And farmers' markets. And putting things on my dining room table and taking pictures of them. 28 days in!
Here's a Project 366 picture from this weekend that I particularly like. Who says I'm not a quivering bundle of neuroses, topped off with a dash of obsessive-compulsive disorder?
If you click on this picture, it will take you to the page on the flickr photostream - on the right you can click on the "Project 366 - here goes nothing" set to see the rest of the pictures. I promise there are some cool ones.
Or, you could just follow this link, where all the shots will be arrayed in chronological order.
Now, back to your regularly scheduled yelling at the TV. Or radio, if you're me.
8:32 - YAY NEW ORLEANS! He mentioned it. Not that he's been particularly helpful in rebuilding it...
uh-oh, immigration. Here's where I'll bow out.
