And I don't mean eggs. (Which reminds me--how could I have been talking about freebasing eggs, and not make a "this is your brain on drugs" joke? What a waste.)
Tag: lambs
Pics, faster than I ever thought possible
Peter is all grown up and has his own blog, and is piling up lamb roast pics over there even as we speak. I like this division of labor.
Lamb Roast No. 3: It’s all about the butchery
After a certain point, everything I write starts to sound the same: we cooked a big meal, it was delicious, and we all love each other soooo much. Well, it's true. But boring.
Kabab Cafe, for old time’s sake
Live tagine report
Hold on to your seats. I just put that Moroccan-French (it's Le Creuset) bad boy on the stove, and rather than reading more Ali G jokes and ruining my diction, I will now proceed to list the sketchy non-fresh things I put in my tajine, in a desperate bid for supper:
I was a teenage vegetarian
Replying to a comment of K8's comment re: Eid below, I realized I've been harboring a horrible, horrible secret: For several years, I did not eat meat.
News from abroad
I was going to say I've had a lack of recent food adventures because I was thinking of the gross cheese sandwich with that Italian mushroom pesto and a small handful of my roommate's five-cheez Italiano blend dairy product (sorry, Aaron, it wasn't much), but then I also remembered the fabulously heartwarming return-to-NYC fried-chicken feast that Tamara prepared to mark my return from exile in the sun country.
You can’t take it with you
By contrast with DiFara's, a much more sociable meal occurred last week--and by "sociable," I mean there was lots of booze involved. Peter and I finally went to Spice Market.
Dolly’s Hot Ketchup and other forgotten details
Last night just before I got into bed, I glanced at my little collection of notebooks stacked on the radiator and noticed my journal from my Lebanon/Syria trip from...geez, 1999?
Catching Up
I've been busy traveling, and am just about to head off for a couple more trips, so briefly, my life in food for the past couple of weeks: