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Way too much sexual analysis ;)

Posted onFriday 10 January 2014Monday 6 January 2014

As was noted yesterday, Biaggi’s essayists examine the emergence of patriarchy in order to persuasively analyze and explain our current global issues — such as environmental devastation, a near-perpetual social injustice which particularly oppresses women and the poor, the increasing corporatization of the massive war and prison industry — then posit a brighter and feasible…

Cooking & warping reality in the new year

Posted onWednesday 1 January 2014

Happy New Year!! :-D Now that this irritatingly wince-inducing semester of comps is over, I’ve been very much getting into relaxing. As a consequence I’ve also had a few interesting experiences and idle thoughts which I thought I’d write down here. For example, I had two weirdly amusing things happen to me the other day….

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Armadillo eggs — the appetizing! :)

Posted onSaturday 9 November 2013

In our last pain-filled episode the armadillo eggs, meatloaf, and cheeses were left well-wrapped and half prepared in the refrigerator, and blinky-Collie-with-glasses went off to a delicious and thoughtful dinner with her very kind housemates. Moving on! The next night I strode fearlessly into the kitchen, well prepared and snapping latex gloves onto my hands…

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Armadillo Eggs – the Agony!

Posted onSunday 3 November 2013

I like trying new (and simple, please!) things to cook, so I’ve told my housemates if there’s something in particular that interests me, send me the recipe. The first I heard of armadillo eggs was when a housemate excitedly showed me a near-completely graphical — and very simple — recipe for them. An idle google…

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Adventures in Cooking, part 2

Posted onSunday 20 October 2013

So, wa-aa-ay back in this posting I had discovered the rutabagas, grabbed some, and was heading for the cash register posthaste, due to an incipient on-line appointment. As I stood at the register I watched the clerk either passing things over the bar code reader or (when things like produce had no bar code on…

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Adventures in Cooking, part 1

Posted onThursday 12 September 2013Thursday 12 September 2013

As is probably well-known by now, I am very much a “seat of the pants” style of cook: I take the recipe, eyeball it for a short list of ingredients and ease of preparation, head to the internet to research any unfamiliar terms or ingredients (Intarwebs I can haz! :), occasionally dump ingredients or make…

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Beef, broccoli, beer, & burgers

Posted onTuesday 30 July 2013Tuesday 30 July 2013

Today I’ll share a small batch of recipes, I think — but first a quick note: I really like the Zatarain’s Creole food! It’s surprisingly tasty to me, and the boxes make it easy to make. So far I’ve tried the Red Beans & Rice and the Dirty Rice Mix (to both of which I…

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Expected birthday deliciousness ;)

Posted onThursday 11 July 2013Wednesday 10 July 2013

So as I mentioned yesterday, the birthday dinner included homemade Italian cream sodas, and I promised to share the recipe today, with my notes below it. I’m also very pleased that I remembered to catch the recipe’s URL too this time! Here it is, and check out her lovely photos too: Italian Cream Sodas Holiday…

Unexpected birthday deliciousness!

Posted onWednesday 10 July 2013Tuesday 9 July 2013

So it was a dear friend’s birthday over the weekend, and I wanted to try making something tasty just for him at this week’s Monday Night Gaming Horde (hereafter known as the infelicitous sounding MNGH). He’d let drop — after much prompting — that he kinda liked pierogies? So I went and looked them up….

Cooking update: stroganoff, Cajun, casserole, & 4th of July — yum! ;)

Posted onFriday 5 July 2013Wednesday 3 July 2013

I have found a wonderful new/old cookbook! I think it was originally written in 1960 or so. The author, Peg Bracken, got sick of all the recipe books written by male chefs which deliriously caroled in incessant glee about how much fun it was for women to slave over a hot oven all day —…