It’s time for Table Scraps and a little Hemingway swoon, don’t you think?
(will never get tired of that book. photo credit)
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In honor of hockey starting back up again last week, as well as my father and brother’s blood pressure levels returning to normal:
(The Swedish Chef! My favorite!)
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The Harbowl is THIS SUNDAY! (FYI: I’m a ((slobbery mess of a)) fan of the man on the right) The Big Man has thrown his Haloti Ngata jersey on the floor of the bedroom, where it will remain for the week (this is superstition, he tells me, not laziness. He did it all through the season and apparently it worked. So every day, I step around it and hope he’s right) The Ravens are in the Superbowl and we’re pretty freaking excited.
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Have you seen Baguette Me Nots? Or am I just late to the station? Whatever the case, I’m happy to be on board at all, because it is amazing. I’m a full-time supporter of any and all baguette-lovin’.
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Speaking of lovin’, Tamar Adler is, as always, the ultimate food guru. Read her incredible book An Everlasting Meal, I beg you- I love the simple way she thinks about food and meals, and how one meal can seamlessly blend into another. She contributes here, in this great article on Smithsonian Magazine’s food blog, Food and Think, detailing the importance of stock-making in the wintertime.
here’s a blurry photo of homemade stock I made back in 2008.
Also, I’m happy to see other people hoarding veggie scraps in their freezer all month until they go on a stock-making binge. I used to buy everything for stock only when I needed to make it, until I realized a few years ago how dumb that was. I started keeping gallon ziplocks set aside in the freezer, which I packed with bones and veggie scraps as I cooked during the month. Every six weeks or so, I let the bag defrost a bit and then use everything to make a huge batch of stock. It’s easier to keep, um, well-stocked of frozen stock (sorry).
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I’ve been following Things Organized Neatly on tumblr for a while, and I have to share. It’s a treasure chest of nerdy, organized OCD porn, and it excites the list making girl not-so-deep inside of my soul.
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Coney Island Brewing Company and the New York Public Library have banded together to recreate George Washington’s personal beer recipe, and I can’t wait to drink some and get a little messy:
(Also, NYC peeps, please check out the NYPL’s Lunch Hour Exhibit, an awesome homage to the creation of the lunch hour in a working city and then throughout America. And it’s free! Here’s the tumblr feed.)
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Tweet of the Week:
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Musictime:
We saw Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros last Spring here in NYC and it was a total blissed-out, hippie love-fest. Like, people brought their own tambourines. It was awesome and honestly one of the best shows I’ve ever seen.
Here’s a good old-fashioned, weirdo, trippie-hippie-mantra-horns-and-chanting song from their first album. If I’m in a crappy mood this song does wonders to get me out of a funk. Seriously! (self titled album, buy it here.)
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Next time! x o
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