How to make pistachio ice cream

Food process a scant cup of pistachios until they achieve this glossy, nut butterish state

400 ml cream

25g light brown sugar

75g sugar

.5 t vanilla

That luscious paste

Whisk uhtil paste incorporated

180 ml whole milk

whisk again- get it into the maker add lightly toasted pistachios at the last 10 minutes

Maw’s makin’ tortillas!

Maw’s makin’ tortillas!
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Dinner at Tom Douglas' Palace Kitchen

Ribeye salad with pear, arugula and simple Salem PA Gorgonzola - not as fatty as the cut looks.Head almost fell off from the symmetry of flavors. Yow,

Venison terrine with blackcurrant and pear mostarda - less pear and more mosatarda would have improve this dish that had a lot of potential - that port/red wine(?) reduction was like melted Yankee Candle. Don't get me wrong - it wasn't a fail - just needed tweaking...

Pork schnitzel with egg - the ghosts of my mother and father, for differing culinary reasons called out to me while eating this - a wonderment, if also a nutritional sin. Like all these dishes a sweet fruit component that this time really, really worked, like Mom's fried apple rings in the same type of flavor profile menu.

I know I'm just a paying peasant, but this entire meal, even with its terrine flaws, appealed to my Eastern European roots. I'd go back tomorrow. I should mention - the waitstaff knew provenance, suggested beverages expertly and responded in a non-slacker fashion to criticisms of the terrine. They were seriously one of the highlights of the meal - out of the way, but champs when present.

The Potato Chip Song

I do not know the provenance of this photo. I have never met these people. It was in my old stuff. It may have been the drummer in my band's wife's relatives. Either way whatta head, no? It's like he's in a trance. Here is his song:

It goes on like that until only dogs can hear it.

Whoa. Top Chef Masters Channels The Andy Griffith Show

Conjoined Twin Diners

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Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Mèngyǎn

I dreamt that I had live versions of these either in my bed or on the seat next to me along with a bunch of other wriggly vertebrate/invertebrate creatures. No actual silverfish, per se but certainly a sloppy loose amalgam of translucent wormy immature live seafoody bits.

Dig In!

Sheer marketing genius, all those hoses, reminiscent of delicious sausage.

I can't help thinking though, that if this was in Hindi, Tony Bourdain'd be sucking them down.....

I gotta assume that the 10% ethanol adds flavor, or get you drunk while you eat 'em...

More Inappropriately Named Products

All the fellas know what I'm talkin' about, right?

One for M'Lady..... "M'" meaning "man"......

I dunno - in my world "Jazz" as an adjective implies either drugs or sex........

Moblog: Japantown S.F.

Shabu shabu hey! We accept you one of us!

melon

The Last of This Year's Tomatoes

A Variety



I had nothing to do with this success.

A Trip to the Italian Market

Here's Porchetta - the meat is wonderfully gedempft -presumably they wanted to save Mr Piggy the embarrasment of being recognized so they gave him a little aluminum foil mask....mmmmmm carnivorous!:



This sign reminds us that a very special day is coming, yet for me and my family cheese cutting day is pretty much every day:



Wave of the future- an online store completely offline! Full of faience, or majolica or meissen peasant trays ready to shipped full of goodies.

Wheaties. Spark. That's all.

Friggin' Wheaties, huh?

Yay! Baseball ! Wheaties !

From what I hear, Wheaties gives you spark.

Burritos for the Deaf

Mrs Lex10 was on the phone with me the other day and had the TV on mute. She stopped in mid conversation and rewound the DVR. That is when she was sure she discovered the secret ingredient to burritos.

Incidentally, they're off the menu henceforth.

I REPEAT: How Do I Like My Eggs!?!?!?!

How to describe Eggs a' la Moe? Perfection. Cooked only on one side, but covered for the second half of the cooking process, so that the yolk is still liquidy but all outer membranes and protein are fully cooked. Tenderly treated like a woman's love. Tenuously hanging onto that perfection, not telling the same joke over and over or attending the same activity too many times as to overcook the relationship....er, I mean eggs. Oh beautiful eggs, don't disappoint me. Then bitten into. (ho HO!!)

The idea behind it is their nearly symmetrical beauty, and untrammeled color (from not being flipped). However, if you are in the mood, you can "dirty 'em up" with red pepper flakes, cracked black pepper and dried herbs. Go ahead- you might find those eggs actually encourage you., quivering there, bulbous and glistening. Saying, "That's right! Yeah! Do it!" In fact egging YOU on.........

See my previous post on this boring friggin' subject.

The image below is, a wallpaper (with some ultra-artistic f-ing around- yeah, that's right, I could improve your personal-corporate-product image...... in fact you wish I would) as is the case so often here at the GlyphJockey blog.

Doesn't this say, "Wolfgang Putz"?

He seriously needs to reconsider how he signs his name:

Crossing the loop of the "K" like that and not closing the right side makes it look like a "TZ", hence Wolfgang Putz.

Hey, I'm just sayin'.

Azafran!

My wife just got an ounce of Saffron. I couldn't let the packaging escape my perusal.

Unfortunately, in our highway-to-global-warming world, I'll still buy something if the packaging is really cool.....



They took the time to include the product name in Hindi, Urdu and Arabic, (I'm guessing)

This one came with the saffron bagged for freshness:



The aroma was serene yet challenging, and helped define it as an ingredient in the risotto the Mrs. was preparing...




If you'd like to smell it, just scratch here.


This end of the tin had an intersting message:


(The pic is a link to a wallpaper)

Pickers on the other end:


It's brand is altaj which means "the crown"


The proud Spanish family that provides this rare treat:

(The pic is a link to a wallpaper)

...and their feelings about their product:


Want to buy your own OZ? Go to my store:

but remenber, I really don't care if you do - just helping, it's cheaper if you use it regularly.

Gittin' Yer BANANA Awn! Banana Cookbook from the 50's

Yo! Bananas! Get your recipes here!

Bananas - How to Serve Them (HERE, and at cover pic below:)

in its entirety - no publisher - no date - just bananas, bananas, bananas.

Bananas with anxiety


General tips:


Bananas showing extreme intelligence:


Bananas goin' stag:


Bananas goin' drag:


And a surprise ambient wallpaper at the link of the painting banana below:


Yeah! Friggin' BANANAS!

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