Archive for the 'food' Category
Produce Humor
There’s not mushroom for this kind of humor here at Brendan Calling, and if I’d know this was where this pear of Keane’s was going, ida red something else. I don’t carrot all for food jokes, but lettuce all back up a little and not get all hot under the collard.
Avocado go to work [...]
Bees: Closer to Home
The disappearance of the bees hits New Jersey
Jean-Claude Tassot felt the sunshine spilling over his shoulders. It was unseasonably warm for January — a good day, he decided, to check his honeybees. So Tassot jumped in his truck and rumbled over the back roads of Morris County to the first of the eight farms where [...]
Getting What We Deserve
In the past few days, I’ve seen a few more articles on the rapidly disappearing bee population.
From a kos diary:
Albert Einstein once predicted that if bees were to disappear, man would follow only a few years later.
That hypothesis could soon be put to the test.
Now in Spain, hundreds of thousands of colonies have been lost [...]
Wendy Showed Me This One
Last week, inspired by Wendy, I finally bought myself a cast-iron pan: there’s a kitchen supply store in the Italian Market that has incredible prices, and I found a 12-inch pan, preseasoned, for $25.00. And this is what I made (also inspired by Wendy).
1 pack boneless skinless chicken thighs, seasoned with salt and pepper
3-4 [...]
Black Bean Soup
I’ve got a pot of black bean soup simmering away on the stove right now. The recipe is based on the soup we served at Cha Cha Cha, a now-defunct Mexican joint I worked at in Massachusetts. This recipe is typically vegetarian, but because I’m under the weather, I added chicken broth.
1 onion, quartered [...]
Tofu
My return to vegetarianism is going along well! I still include a little bit of fish in my diet, and I never cut out dairy and eggs, but overall I have eaten barely any poultry, and even less red meat.
In the past when I’ve mentioned vegetarian cooking, my meat-eating friends have scrunched up their [...]
Meat is Murder
From 1992 until about 2000, I was a vegetarian. Eggs, milk, and cheese were all part of my diet, but red meat, poultry, and fish were out. That all changed when I moved to Philadelphia, or to be more specific when I was at the Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival with Jim and Jennie. [...]
Read More..>>He Has Come
h/t to Ray at Philly Bits.
We Have Been Visited By His Noodly Appendage.
Read More..>>The Fighting Continues
While I agree with Noz about whether or not there is less discussion than I might expect about the fighting in Israel and Lebanon on left blogs (although that seems to be a lot different as of this afternoon), I simply cannot comprehend NOT writing about it. There is so much at stake, for [...]
Read More..>>Independence Day
Independence Day
I worked four pizza jobs over the course of my career, all of which have funny stories attached to them. However it’s my second pizza job story that takes the cake (pie?).
I worked at a dingy place called Pizza Pal Plus in the Westville neighborhood of New Haven, across the avenue from Edgewood [...]
