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Post baby shower in jersey, Erik and I swing through the old college town to get noodles at noodle gourmet!
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1st Bi Bim Bop
Hello Dear Readers,
My post a day has really been falling apart lately, it's kind of amazing to me, I can't help but think that there is some sort of psychological indicator here - while I was freelancing, overwhelmed, and sleep deprived, I was able to post every day. Now, full-time and robust, and with an iPhone (!) I can't make myself do it. :) Still trying to figure out what that means... Anywho, with all my new found time, the boyfriend and I have been creating all sorts of food wonders. A few weeks ago, we made a huge batch of kimchi (sorry about the smell roomies!), made mostly of organic seasonal produce gathered at our local farmer's market. The plan for this deliciousness was to more regularly feed our cravings for Bi Bim Bop. It finally has happened. Sharing Erik's missive about his first go at it with you!---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Erik (the boyfriend)
Date: Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:43 PM
Subject: 1st Bi Bim Bop
Here was my first go. Black sesame seed
Pan roasted corn
A beet/leek/garlic fried salad
Fairy dust [trans: nutritional yeast]
Korean pickled radish
Wakame seaweed I found the red sauce to be sweet/mild...almost syrupy. Added sesame oil. It needed an egg.
From: Erik (the boyfriend)
Date: Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:43 PM
Subject: 1st Bi Bim Bop
Here was my first go. Black sesame seed
Pan roasted corn
A beet/leek/garlic fried salad
Fairy dust [trans: nutritional yeast]
Korean pickled radish
Wakame seaweed I found the red sauce to be sweet/mild...almost syrupy. Added sesame oil. It needed an egg.
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Honda Develops New Personal Mobility Uni-Scooter - PSFK
via psfk.com
I'm not kidding - I used to spend hours fantasizing about almost this exact thing while growing up. Except in my model, the wheel grew out of your butt, and retracted when not in use. Almost there Honda.
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Soup for 40
Last night, at Erik's GoodMeet, I made "Soup for 40." The title of the soup is of course partially based on the quantity of people the soup can serve. While we were all eating it though, the building manager for the building that SALT artspace is in pointed out that the name also references what a soup for 40 implies - a communal meal, for a gathering of friends or like-minded folks.
It is kind of ridiculous to offer this 'recipe' since I think the true idea is to dump a bunch of fresh deliciousness into a pot, and make sure you cook it as part of the event. But in case, or if you just want to think about quantities... How to make a Soup for 40:Equipment:• HUGE pot
• electric burner
• metal ladleSoup:
• 1 quart carrots (1 bag)
• 1 quart celery (1 bag)
• 2 quarts onions (1 bag)
• head of garlic, cut 2 days earlier, cured in 1/3-1/2 cup of olive oil in the meantime
• 1 bunch parsley
• several twigs of rosemary (1/2 small box)
• 5 lb bag of potatoes (minus a few!)
• 2 cups soy milk (1/2 box)
• 2 pitchers water
• 2 cups nutritional yeast (or so)
• 1/3-1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
• one box mild veggie bullion
• a few tbs salt
• spices like pepper, thyme, and paprika to taste. lemon rind or bay leaves might be nice!!
• 2 big cans diced tomatoes
• 2 big cans of pinto beans
• 2 big cans of kidney beansDirections:
Sautee garlic and oil with some salt, lightly. Add carrot, celery and onion and some more salt. Put lid on and let it sweat. Add rosemary and parsley. Mix in. Add rest of salt. Let it sweat some more. Box of bullion + 2 pitchers of water + vinegar. Mix and add potatoes and mix again. Put the lid on and let it simmer while you drain the beans. Add the beans and stir. Dump in the soy milk and nutritional yeast. More stirring. Add tomatoes and other spices. Simmer until potatoes are cooked. Serve over cornbread.
(I made 4 well-received trays of this recipe: http://www.theppk.com/recipes/dbrecipes/index.php?RecipeID=39)
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Serra, in process
I took these photos in front of my office today. So cool.
At this point, I am way more jazzed about this than an actual Serra installation! Such a mind f***. I wish I got some of the fancy gallerists who were hanging around in these photos. We were all so giddy.
Oh, and yeah. That is a bunch of construction workers standing ON TOP OF one of the iconic steel plates.
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in praise of an unplanned life
after a year and 4 months of freelancing, i was more than ready this past May to start a full-time job. since then it has been an interesting game of balancing out full-time job commitments, volunteer commitments, my professional and social networks. not to mention summer and its many gifts!
these past couple of weekends i have literally felt myself returning to a slower pace, and it has been wonderful and oddly disquieting. there is something about living in nyc, or being a 20-something, that seems to demand activity. a schedule. as a challenge - i deliberately left this weekend unplanned, with a few ideas sketched in to see what would happen - would i go mad with boredom? feel like a loser spending saturday night at home? in fact, it was delightful. saturday was bliss - farmers market, followed by random postal and goodwill errands and more food shopping, leading to used book buying and eventually kimchi making and snacking and feasting. a surprise outing for a drink with a friend, and a decision not to go to an opening in chelsea and a housewarming in the hood. cap that off with trueblood! sunday morning was sheer leisure with coffee and new books to read, fashion week voyeurism and boyfriend nuzzling. another surprise brunch outing meant i had to turn down a spur of the minute beach invite. a late afternoon stroll around lower manhattan took me to a new japanese restaurant, a korean grocery, a movie, and a craigslist crockpot purchase organized via iphone. life is good.Comments [1]
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