Despite the wonders that are delivered by digital music today, sometimes I really miss lying on my back on a shag carpet, eyes closed, two huge stack speakers aimed at my head, listening to a quality vinyl record played over excellent analog equipment.
One day I wish to retire to a dictionary.
Sometimes I come untethered.
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Sir @ December 6, 2010 # One Comment
Make. What was the last thing you made? What materials did you use? Is there something you want to make, but you need to clear some time for it? This is light on the pictures, but trust me when I say that it’s as orange as any bisque ever made. Fall is custom made for [...]
Sir @ September 6, 2010 # 2 Comments
The Hungarian composer Franz Liszt once said, ‘In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance. Also, we’re all completely batshit crazy for paprika.’ Of all the recipes upon which my loving gaze has fallen over the years, none have caused more spice-related [...]
Sir @ June 10, 2010 # 6 Comments
How can something that looks like diarrhea taste and smell so divine? I’m sure that I’m neither the first nor the last person to question Indian food thusly. Indian food is amazing for many reasons (camouflage notwithstanding), not least of which is the fact that it singlehandedly makes eating in Britain both more interesting and [...]
Sir @ April 11, 2010 # 4 Comments
The French. They of rich culinary traditions, mimes, and a propensity for short, megalomaniacal men who sometimes unsuccessfully invade Russia (see: Napolean (yes), Sarkozy (not yet), etc.). Cordon Bleu is a term that denotes cooking excellence, evidenced in its being the name of the renowned cooking school in France that has become an international pipeline [...]
Sir @ March 30, 2010 # 9 Comments
Don’t let the name of this dish scare you. Never let food see the shadow of doubt darken your brow. It can smell fear, y’know. The name sounds complicated and uber-involved, but I assure you that the recipe’s really not ‘all that’. Having said this, however, I encourage you to try it out on others, [...]
Sir @ February 19, 2010 # 7 Comments
My mother used to make what she liked to call goulash by whipping up some tomato-based meat sauce and throwing it on top of macaroni noodles. And being a kid growing up in the midwest, for all I knew at the time that’s exactly what it was. So, I grew up thinking that this bland [...]
Sir @ February 8, 2010 # 11 Comments
With the acquisition of the birthday camera*, I’m incredibly happy that I can now properly reinstate the ‘Food Porn’ tag, the contents of which are sorely lacking for someone who cooks so regularly. I’m also woefully behind Kat’s power curve of excellent food-based ideas. I can think of no better way to kick things off [...]
Sir @ July 9, 2008 # 15 Comments
Nearly every admirable trait that I developed growing up was acquired by watching and listening to my grandparents. Theirs is a pretty extraordinary story and one that I’ll no doubt provide snippets of here from time to time. My grandmother likes to tell me how, when I was just a wee lad sitting in my [...]