Category Archives: food

Asparagus Bacon

Posted on January 30, 2009 by baudattitude

Let me preface this by saying that I am not part of the recent Cult of Bacon that seems to have taken over the world.  Honestly, if there’s a meme I’d like to see die faster, I can’t think of … Continue reading →

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A Winner Is Me

Posted on December 18, 2008 by baudattitude

So, there was a post on Kotaku a few days ago where they mentioned that x soft drink company was running a contest where you could win one of a few different digitally-distributed games, provided you gave them an email … Continue reading →

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Pudding, Necromorphs, and the Yen Exchange Rate

Posted on December 17, 2008 by baudattitude

I gave rice pudding another shot, this time taking the leftover coconut rice from the other day and applying it to this recipe, leaving out the raisins, cinnamon, and nutmeg. It worked really well.  I don’t know if I’m going … Continue reading →

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I’m, uh, Coco for Coconuts?

Posted on December 14, 2008 by baudattitude

I continued my dessert making theme by trying to duplicate a dessert that my wife used to get at a thai restaurant that we no longer live anywhere near. It is, basically, coconut-flavored sticky rice with coconut ice cream on … Continue reading →

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Pudding: Round 2

Posted on December 13, 2008 by baudattitude

The rice pudding from the other night tasted quite good, but had a very chewy texture that didn’t really go hand-in-hand with the whole idea of “pudding”.  I was willing to put up with it, but it didn’t go over … Continue reading →

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I mades me some pudding

Posted on December 12, 2008 by baudattitude

Then I eated it. I keeping with the “cooking with rice” theme, I made rice pudding tonight, a very straightforward endeavor involving milk, sugar, salt, vanilla, and cinnamon… oh, and rice of course.  Actual INGREDIENTS, not a mix or anything.  … Continue reading →

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Cooking without smoke alarms

Posted on December 9, 2008 by baudattitude

After a evening spent alternately deep-frying pork and setting off smoke alarms, I was a little more careful the next evening, when I went to use up the leftover rice. I’m happy to report that I turned four cups of … Continue reading →

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Tonkatsu: Lessons learned

Posted on December 7, 2008 by baudattitude

I threw caution to the wind and tried my hand at tonkatsu making tonight, and learned many valuable things, which I will now pass along: First: Cooking oil has a temperature called the “smoke point.” This is not just a … Continue reading →

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I’m not encouraged to cook.

Posted on December 5, 2008 by baudattitude

It’s not that I’m not allowed, it’s just that whenever I get ambitious, I get reminded about a particularly disastrous incident from about a decade ago. I get a relative pass on stuff like pasta and baking-from-mix; it’s understood that … Continue reading →

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Lightly ironic

Posted on November 29, 2008 by baudattitude

So, after class today, I went through the Burgerville drive-through. Burgerville, for those of you unfortunate enough not to live between Tacoma and Albany on the Interstate 5 corridor in the Pacific Northwest, is a local burger chain.  They’re really … Continue reading →

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