Morning Ed: Food {2016.11.24.TGD}
Don’t want to argue about politics over Thanksgiving? Here are some alternative things for you to argue about. Remember: Not Trump!
Eat your yolks, folks!
The 70’s was a whole ‘nother country. So much so I feel bad making fun of it because multiculturalism.
Yay for meat, it’s the best, and always has been.
Strip clubs in Florida become Turkey Day Heroes.
Maggie Koerth-Baker looks at big farms and small farms in the modern economy. {More}
From Kazzy: There are many things to love about Smitten Kitchen. One are her Zucchini Fritters. Another are the absolutely gorgeous pictures she takes of her food, both in process and the finished product; if food porn is a thing, her work is like professional fashion photography. Her posts are equal parts personal narrative and recipe, helping you connect with the food and making it even more appealing than the pictures do. She takes traditional dishes and jazzes them up, but in a way that is accessible and easily replicable; she cooks in her small NYC apartment and eschews what she calls “pretentious ingredients” like truffle oil, $10/quarter-ounce salt, and single-origin chocolate. While the recipes aren’t strictly vegetarian, most are or are at least veggie-based and give really attractive options for relatively healthy eating.
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Something went terribly wrong with food in the mid-20th century. There is a website where a young woman makes mid-century meals and tests them on her husband and son.
Meat is great and blood is the life.
Strip clubs: Something something with a heart of gold.Report
Happy Thanksgiving, everybody.
I hope that you eat too much today, then take a nap in front of a television upon which the Cowboys are losing. Wait, who are they playing? Crap, the Cowboys are going to win. Maybe the Lions will do okay…Report
I took the liberty of promoting my Thanksgiving post from yesterday in the spirit of a “let politics rest for a day” Thanksgiving. I will be cooking, drinking, eating, and cleaning most of the day, so a happy and safe holiday to you all.
If you seek additional Thanksgiving reading here, I’ve selected some musings from years past which you may peruse via a hastag search, although I most heartily recommend Mike Dwyer’s musings about food traditions from last year and Christopher Carr’s guide to making genuine New England cranberry sauce. It’s an irrational peeve of mine to force canned cranberry “sauce” out of the marketplace forever when real cranberry sauce made on your stove is so absurdly easy to make and produces such a pleasing result.Report
But you have to have the canned stuff in the long dish. You know, with the lines still on the side!
I mean, too. You can have more stuff than just that.Report
I assumed “We’re going to need a lot of booze” was at least partly about the next four years.Report
I was introduced to Smitten Kitchen when someone sent me a link to her Fairytale of New York cocktail (yes, she does cocktails too!) since I love all things Pogues…and bourbon. Now I go there first when looking for recipes!Report
Did you end up in the drunk tank?Report
If my living room counts as one, then yes!Report
I have not seen that one but will look it up, @maria . Being alone with the boys means much less time for cooking so I don’t read/use her as much as I used to/would like to but she’s a staple nonetheless!Report
… do you think you could get away with “hey, it’s time for a thanksgiving feast! Everybody gets six dino-nuggets instead of five!”?Report
Ha! Well, Nonna cooks the holiday foods. So we’re all good there. I’m moving them towards more non-kid foods whenever possible. But with time (and to a lesser extent money) a scarce resource, cooking — even for myself — has fallen by the wayside. C’est la vie.Report
That drink seems like a Christmas-themed Old Fashioned. Does that seem accurate?Report
Yeah, pretty much. It works, though! My friends made the simple syrup oncoction for me last year, and my husband and I enjoyed it a lot.
I hear you on the cooking thing. I too am trying to get my kids to eat more of the food we eat, but they are both so skinny I end up fretting about getting enough calories in them even though I know I don’t need to. I have had success with stir-frying chicken marinated in soy sauce, a little sugar, and sesame oil. I will throw in a veg I know they will eat and then see what happens. Alas they are both in the stage of preferring their veggies raw, but baby steps. Who knew feedings kids was so hard!Report
Happy Thanksgiving to one and all.Report
In honor of 2016… I bring you C’THURKEY!!!
Happy turkey day all!Report
That ham and banana hollandaise may be the most disturbing thing I’ve ever seen.Report
WE MOOST DEAL WIS IT!Report