Random Food Pics

quiche by Sara

salmon with a crispy bit that was stuck in the pan

yam, peppers, onion saute; sorrel at the end. perfect with the salmon

mac an cheese with older milk so the sauce split

the mac and cheese with broccoli/basil pesto

spaghetti and turkey meatballs

Count This Penny / the Civil Wars

We listened to them on Prairie Home on a rainy day. Epic. I ordered their EP and pre-ordered their album. I must say, the other bands on Prarie Home this week seemed pretty strong, too... good episode. Kind of reminded me of the one from Nashville last year that the Civil Wars were on.

The Count this Penny website is great, they have a couple of songs streaming (bottom of your browser), Plymouth Duster is fantastic.

Lots of the Civil Wars on youtube. From this Valley is amazing, and not on their album. Sour Times (Portishead cover) is a nice touch. Record release party (HQ video), fullshow, individual songs. And some audio from NPR. Emmylou introducing them at the Grand Ole Opry, they do From this Valley. This is getting ridiculous, Billie Jean cover. You are my sunshine. Disarm. Amoeba in-store appearance -- this one is particularly good, 8 songs, great energy. Another Disarm, so good, it's from the same show as the From This Valley link above, New Orleans in 2011, you can buy the video of the full show for 8 bucks. I might, cause the energy of the 2 songs is high... Freebird / Disarm. Cool series (there are 4 parts) of them visiting a highschool classroom in Kansas.

Outside Magazine / Recovery Foods

They often have articles like this, I liked the text in this one.

Mike Daisey / Apple / TAL

What a story. This Daisey dude did a one man play about how Apple is taking advantage of it's workers, and it caught the ear of TAL, so they put him on. Turns out his story is generally accurate as to working conditions, but he didn't actually see as much first hand as he claimed, so journalism-wise it doesn't cut the mustard, and TAL retracted the episode. So you can't hear the audio off of their website, though I downloaded it before the retraction if anyone is curious to hear it. You can hear the episode in which they talk about the retraction, and this CNN bit explains some, too.

Faux Chicken / Bittman

Now this is an interesting article. I hate fake meat. I think it's ridiculous that someone would rather eat some crappy semi-industrial product that sort of looks and tastes like meat rather than cooking a decent meal with legumes/grains/veggies/whatever. They start out with that opinion. But then they got to thinking that considering real industrial meat is so damn disgusting, weaning people from it in any way possible is worthy. Good read.

5 foods that can change the world

Fairly standard eat local, avoid industrial meat preaching, but it can't be said often enough... Some of the other 5 are a little harder to accept, we shall see.

Curtis Armstrong / Random Roles

Shorter than it could have been - no discussion of One Crazy Summer, for instance. But the Gary Busey story is pretty awesome.

DIY Food / NPR

really nice assortment of things to make. i don't like their (and most peoples') ricotta recipe, but c'est la vie.

Nonnas / NPR

love the picture, story is good, too

Random Food Pics

paella with brown rice. good, not amazing

a Jamie O recipe. pasta with kale green sauce, red sauce and fresh ricotta on the side. i didn't follow his recipe all that closely, and used a food processor instead of a liquidizer (blender). the 'liquidizer' term threw me off... his pic looked amazing. definite potential.

fried rice with lightly steamed broccoli shoots. not from Tassajara Recipe Book... just a little freestylin'
mmmmm. oatmeal skon bread, toasted, with kale pesto. I'm loving kale pesto right now: pecans, no cheese, a little pimiento paste, garlic and kale, obviously.

quickie. wholewheat coucous, goat cheese, red sauce

some sort of dal i think, pimiento paste and green zhoug in the jars

Snow in the front range

Late season storm, pretty damn cold for SB. Rained friday night into saturday. Snow in the front range saturday night, showers off and on sunday, a light dusting sunday night. This is from monday morning.

Miso / Bittman - NYT

interesting ideas

Taming the Bicycle -- Mark Twain

A seller on ebay used a quote from Taming the Bicycle as his email signature, and I tracked down the full essay. It's great!

good Sheed article

man could he ever light up sportscenter highlights. good read.

a Wrinkle in Time / NPR

It was published 50 years ago. I need to read it again!

on Roald Dahl / NPR - On Point

quite lovely

Regulating Sugar / NPR - On Point

darn good show

Baja 2012

Only a few photos, there are alot on Picasa, from the older Olympus 1030Sw and the new Nikon D700. There's also a separate folder of everything I took while whale watching. They are pretty much in chronological order in this post.

Trip was me and Sara, my brother, and 2 botanist friends. We went to see the Bishop pines near Erendira, ate as many fish tacos as possible, hung out near Catavina, looked at the lichen growing on the boojums towards the Pacific coast, then finished up at Laguna Ojo de Liebre, the lagoon just south of Guerrero Negro where the grey whales come to give birth.

The whale watching setup at the lagoon is amazing. 5$/car to get in. The visitor's center is small but nice. The restaurant wasn't bad at all. Prices were a little inflated but considering you can watch whales spouting from your table... There are palapas at each campsite, the palapas with electric lighting are 5$/night, all others are free! At night when the wind stops you can hear the whales spouting, the whooosh sound to me sounded like gorillas calling to eachother in the jungle. Amazing. Whale watching was 40$/person in the panga boats. I touched a whale.

baby Bishop pine

lichen on boojum

love the colors from the D700!

boojum hillside

backlit ocotillo east of El Arco

vulture near our camp east of El Arco

hazy focus, but gotta show the camping quesadilla set up....

lettuce was a nice addition

sunset, Laguna Ojo de Liebre

sittin' on the dock of the bay

ballena gris

Lea Thompson / OnionAV

mighty fine reading

First Aid Kit

I'm finally going through all of the NPR I missed while in Baja. They did a short little story about First Aid Kit, a band consisting of 2 sisters from Sweden. Love it, cd ordered. OnionAV has a link to a video which I quite liked, too.

Cauliflower+Broccoli Stuffed Shells

A Jamie Oliver recipe, from Jamie at Home. Good, even though we really whacked back the cheese. Would be amazing with the right amount of cheese ;)

1 lb broccoli
1 lb cauliflower
7 cloves garlic
3 dried chilies
fresh thyme
1 tin anchovy fillets
3c milk, butter, flour
2c red sauce sauce
splash red wine vinegar
box of jumbo shells
2 cups fresh Parmesan - finely grated
8 oz provolone

Chop the broc/cauli florets and stems, put in boiling water for 6 min, drain, save water for cooking the shells
Boil shells for whatever it says on the box
Saute garlic, add chilies, anchovies w/ their oil, thyme.
Add drained broc/cauli, cook for 20min until really soft. Mash.
Make a bechamel sauce with the butter/flour/milk. I forget the proportions. It would be good to add some cheese to it.
Put red sauce and a little vinegar in a 13x9 pyrex
Stuff the shells with the mashed veggies, put on red sauce
Pour over bechamel and put on some provolone and parmesan (amounts in the recipe are what you are supposed to have used)
375, 30min uncovered

Random Food Pics

last night, thai green curry w/ delicata squash, purple potato, russet potato, cauliflower, a little ground beef

while ago, brussels sprouts and ground beef, vietnamese-style w/ nuoc cham on the side


boring looking, but tasty indian. green split peas as the dal, with eggplant chutney and cilantro chutney
dilla, with a brown rice GF tortilla, not bad at all, actually.

Grandma Grace Memorial Service

I didn't go to this as it coincided with our long-planned Baja trip. Lame excuse. Luckily my cousin Breanna made a really nice video of it.

Pollan's Food Rules, Illustrated

"Food Rules" by Michael Pollan - RSA/Nominet Trust competition from Marija Jacimovic on Vimeo.

Green Bronx Machine

Questions of Science...

Bon Iver / SPIN

This is old, but came to my attention cause they did an interview with him after the Grammy's and linked to it. Good, and the video at the end about the house/studio he has was interesting.

Bon Iver + the Roots

good

Etta James

This story played right before we went to Baja. Sorry she's gone but the music is great.

Bon Joviver

epic

UCSB stuff

Cool little blurb about installing bike repair stands, I dig it.