Posted by: pahsta on: September 26, 2008
Glycerin soap is fun because you can experiment with scents and additions without waiting four weeks for your soap to cure, only to find out it smells like ass. The pink one is the strawberry-clove soap, and the orange one is the orange-lemongrass soap. I ground the lemongrass with a coffee grinder before adding it [...]
Posted by: pahsta on: September 24, 2008
Lentil soup was my favorite meal as a kid — that and peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches. This version isn’t the one my mom used to make, but it’s still pretty damn tasty. It comes from the Food Network TV show “Good Eats” by Alton Brown, and it’s a bit more spicetastic than mom’s. Resist the urge [...]
Posted by: pahsta on: September 22, 2008
Nothing says Renaissance England like Queen Elizabeth, Robin Hood and pirates fighting in live-action chess. Argh, matey.
I tried mead for the first time, along with that Renaissance classic, chicken fajitas.
Devon scored himself a softball-sized metal sphere at Ren Faire, which he used to terrorize the innocent with his phat metal-sphere-thingie skills, and we were lured [...]
Posted by: pahsta on: September 19, 2008
Alicia of NYC Resistor made this cake for Eric’s birthday. It makes real Game Boy sounds if you press the buttons. Well, not anymore, since it’s partly IN MY BELLY!
Posted by: pahsta on: September 16, 2008
As I munched on my Chinese dumplings filled with something or other last night, I wondered how many first meals in a new home consist of Chinese food or pizza. We ate dinner at around midnight after unpacking boxes and putting together the metal racks that will allow us to have a real kitchen. For [...]
Posted by: pahsta on: September 12, 2008
Little Havana was seriously overcrowded when I met him after work, so Devon and I detoured to the Cornelia Street Café, where he had the Lobster Ravioli and I had a plate of toasted pita and Mediterranean hummus. (Shut up! I love hummus!) The dinner became almost an afterthought, though, when we discovered that the [...]
Posted by: pahsta on: September 11, 2008
Warning: Don’t ever, ever try this. Some marketing genius at Bubble Yum thought it would be great to join the forces of gum and chocolate for the greater good of selling more candy. It is a dark day indeed when I have to throw anything chocolaty into the trash. Like the thought of Obama and [...]
Posted by: pahsta on: September 10, 2008
Fudge is a harsh mistress. It sits there behind the glass, beckoning me to the beat of a heavy drum: fudge, fudge, fudge, fudge, fudge. I’d been thinking about fudge for weeks, so I finally surrendered and got some from Li-Lac’s in Grand Central Station. I’m sure I’ll be mentioning the market in Grand Central [...]
Posted by: pahsta on: September 8, 2008
I made these super-easy cheese twists as a side for the cheese soup Devon made Saturday. I once believed that I could never eat too much cheese, but this might have been the tipping point. The recipe comes from Pillsbury’s Fall Baking magazine. They were so good even Fitz, Devon’s dog, risked my wrath [...]
Posted by: pahsta on: September 7, 2008
A new food blog should always start with something boozy. That’s more my personal credo than a law of nature, but it’s one I try to live by.
Devon and I have decided that one of our many life goals is to have the most bitchin’ flavored booze collection in all of Brooklyn. We started with [...]
