I'm definitely going to have to finish transcribing our former housemate's German-descended mother's recipe collection. Lots of nummy stuff.
Zoe: Is there any way I'm gonna get out of this with honor and dignity? Wash: You're pretty much down to ritual suicide, lambie-toes.
'War Stories'
Natter 52: Playing with a full deck?
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Connie Neil - Jun 05, 2007 6:27:47 am PDT #1104 of 10001
brillig
Jessica - Jun 05, 2007 6:28:32 am PDT #1105 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
She got it from some store in Greenwich Village or Chelsea (forgot exactly where) that specializes in old cookbooks. I keep meaning to ask her exactly where the store is, but I fear for my paycheck if I found it.
I know that store! Not in the sense of knowing it's name or exact address, but I have been in there more than once. (My subconscious, being well aware of the states of both my bank account and available bookshelf-space, has refused to commit this information to memory in order to protect me from myself.)
[eta: NPR story about Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks.]
[eta2: Bonnie Slotnick's website]
Steph L. - Jun 05, 2007 6:35:11 am PDT #1106 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
butterflocken
Nothing to say. Just had to see that word again.
"Butterflocken" sounds like something that the Swedish Chef uses when cooking.
Bork bork bork now foor de butterflocken!
Hil R. - Jun 05, 2007 6:39:18 am PDT #1107 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
That Scripture Cake in the cookbook in Jess's link is awesome.
I found some recipes in my American Hostess Cookbook from Mrs. J. Strom Thurmond. (A pecan pie which looks pretty much like every other pecan pie recipe I've ever seen, and "Frozen Fruit Charlotte" wich is 2 1/2 cups milk, 3 egg yolks, and 1/2 cup sugar mixed together, stir in 3 T geletine which has been soaking in cold water, cool, stir in 3 beaten egg whites, 1 cup cream, whipped, and 2 cups mixed fruit. Put in freezer, serve with whipped cream. That recipe scares me.)
Hil R. - Jun 05, 2007 6:52:52 am PDT #1108 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Okay, so last night, I stared at a double magnum of Château Lafite Rothschild 1874 that apparently costs $35,000. I was afraid to move lest I break anything and have to take out a loan.
Wow.
I've also got a cookbook of community recipes that was sold to raise money for the Kennebunkport library. It's got a few from Barbara Bush. (Including a baked beans recipe that starts with two cans of baked beans. I don't understand these things.)
sumi - Jun 05, 2007 6:59:02 am PDT #1109 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Shrift - they just have bottles of wine that cost as much as a car lying around for any random klutz to fall over and break? Talk about your luxury dining. . .
Kat - Jun 05, 2007 6:59:05 am PDT #1110 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
"calf's head prepared turtle-style."
My favorite from, I think, Hannah Glasse was Veal Potage with Eel Jellly.
mmm..mmm good!
Community recipe books are some of the best historical documents!
tommyrot - Jun 05, 2007 7:01:36 am PDT #1111 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
New species discovered: Purple-festooned, Atepolus toad
Very pretty, for a toad. Also, I want to see what it looks like under a black light....
More new species: [link]
shrift - Jun 05, 2007 7:02:52 am PDT #1112 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I should write up the Charlie Trotter's experience. I'm not going to have that kind of gustatory experience again anytime soon.
There were at least four $35,000 double magnums of wine in that wine cellar, which is only one of four cellars in the restaurant. I kept thinking that Danny and Rusty could make some easy money there.
sarameg - Jun 05, 2007 7:03:48 am PDT #1113 of 10001
From Kat's link....
If I have not wrote in the high, polite Stile, I hope I shall be forgiven; for my Intention is to instruct the lower Sort, and therefore must treat them in their own Way. For Example; when I bid them lard a Fowl, if I should bid them lard with large Lardoons, they would not know what I meant:
Well, I know what Sort I am. Lardoons? Heeheee.