01.13.2011 

Making croissants

Well this definitely made me hungry…

/via @kottke

 12.1.2009 
“You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (via Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma)
 12.1.2009 

Chef Daniel Humm carves a turkey.

Is it weird that I love watching chefs dismember animals?

 10.15.2009 
Jalapeño-cheddar scones

GREAT.  Now I’m starving.

Jalapeño-cheddar scones

GREAT. Now I’m starving.

 09.14.2009 
The view from our table at Malibu Seafood.

The view from our table at Malibu Seafood.

 08.26.2009   06.5.2009 
Bad ideas are sold by the bag in North Central Florida.

Bad ideas are sold by the bag in North Central Florida.

 05.29.2009 
I’ve been known to grill some meat in my day.

That grill is like a forge… you could make a battleaxe in there.  Or obliterate some chicken.

I’ve been known to grill some meat in my day.

That grill is like a forge… you could make a battleaxe in there. Or obliterate some chicken.

 05.29.2009 
J&D’s thinks “everything should taste like bacon.”

And they’re right.

They sell Bacon Salt and Baconnaise.  I’d put both on my sandwich.

J&D’s thinks “everything should taste like bacon.”

And they’re right.

They sell Bacon Salt and Baconnaise. I’d put both on my sandwich.

bacon food 
 05.29.2009   03.25.2009 

First-World Problems

  • Zac: damnit
  • Zac: I just bought some cheezits from the snack machine and the bag was already part way open
  • Zac: my day is ruined
 05.28.2008 

Our new grill

Grill

We just assembled our new grill last week, and used it for the first time on Memorial Day. It’s a Kingsford charcoal grill/smoker we got for our wedding. It’s got full cast iron grills and an adjustable-height charcoal tray, as well.

Cast Iron

We made some bratwurst, kabobs (onions, red peppers, and zucchini), potatoes, and some marinated chicken. I’m extremely happy with the results.

(Pardon the ass blurry iPhone pics)

 01.14.2008 
The Bacon Cheese Baconburger — An amazing tale of “bacon-ey goodness.”


  “To the best of my knowledge, nobody had done this before. I was venturing into uncharted culinary waters. I felt like the Christopher Columbus of bacon.”


Also popular: bacon cereal, the ultimate bacon sandwich.

The Bacon Cheese Baconburger — An amazing tale of “bacon-ey goodness.”

“To the best of my knowledge, nobody had done this before. I was venturing into uncharted culinary waters. I felt like the Christopher Columbus of bacon.”

Also popular: bacon cereal, the ultimate bacon sandwich.

 01.10.2008 
Patton Oswalt actually tries out the KFC Famous Bowl.  He once called it “a failure pile in a sadness bowl.”

Hilarity ensues:


  “The gravy, which I remembered as being tangy and delicious in my youth, tasted like the idea of blandness, but burned and then salted to cover the horrid taste. The mashed potatoes defiantly stood their ground against the gravy, as if they’d read The Artist’s Way and said, “I’m going to be boring and forgetful in my own potato-y way!” The corn tasted like it had been dunked in fake-corn-flavored ointment, and the popcorn chicken, breaded to the point of parody, was like chewing a cotton sleeve that someone had used to wipe chicken grease off their chin.
  
  The cheese had congealed. Even in the heat and steam of the covered Famous Bowl, it had congealed. I stabbed it with the tines of my spork and it all came up in one piece. I nibbled an edge, had a vision of a crying Dutch farmer, and put it down.”


(For those who don’t know, the Famous Bowl is a bowl of gravy, mashed potatoes, corn, breaded chicken, and cheese.  A plastic bowl of coronary.)

Patton Oswalt actually tries out the KFC Famous Bowl. He once called it “a failure pile in a sadness bowl.”

Hilarity ensues:

“The gravy, which I remembered as being tangy and delicious in my youth, tasted like the idea of blandness, but burned and then salted to cover the horrid taste. The mashed potatoes defiantly stood their ground against the gravy, as if they’d read The Artist’s Way and said, “I’m going to be boring and forgetful in my own potato-y way!” The corn tasted like it had been dunked in fake-corn-flavored ointment, and the popcorn chicken, breaded to the point of parody, was like chewing a cotton sleeve that someone had used to wipe chicken grease off their chin.

The cheese had congealed. Even in the heat and steam of the covered Famous Bowl, it had congealed. I stabbed it with the tines of my spork and it all came up in one piece. I nibbled an edge, had a vision of a crying Dutch farmer, and put it down.”

(For those who don’t know, the Famous Bowl is a bowl of gravy, mashed potatoes, corn, breaded chicken, and cheese. A plastic bowl of coronary.)

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