Hand pies have a special place in my heart. Nine years ago, while studying abroad, I got lost in Plymouth, England. I kept having bouts of misplaced confidence (or just plain stubbornness), and ended up circling the town a couple of times before I asked for help. (The irony is that I was in the [...]
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Popeye Pies
Posted in Casserole/One Dish, Fat, Garden, Recipe, Vegetarian Friendly on August 19, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Sweet Potato Fries
Posted in Fat on April 4, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I’ve had some suet from Cocina San Pasqual in my freezer for a while and needed to find a way to use it before trying out the tallow I recently rendered (more info here, too). (Which incidentally turned out to be suet, which doesn’t actually need to be rendered. Although, it doesn’t hurt. A quick [...]
Tallow Follow-Up
Posted in Fat, Health, Reading and Research on February 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »
In my earlier post about tallow, I mentioned Jennifer McLagan, a “nose to tail” chef and author who writes about the subject in her books Bones, Fat, and the forthcoming Odd Bits. I sent McLagan an e-mail, asking for her help with my suet/tallow conundrum. Here is her helpful response: Hello Tricia, From your photos I [...]
Come, mister tallow man.
Posted in Back to Basics, Fat on February 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Ring, ring. “Hello?” “Hi, Tricia. I have a friend here who has some beef fat, but doesn’t know what to do with it. Do you want it?” “Why, yes. Yes, I do.” And this is how I recently acquired some beef fat. And it wasn’t just any beef fat; this friend of a friend had [...]
Pop Culture and Popcorn
Posted in Back to Basics, Experimenting, Fat, tagged Chicken fat, Popcorn, Simple on December 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
What better way to break in our new TV, than sitcoms and a bowl of popcorn. We were a TV-less household for almost two years. (But not really in the purest sense; we sometimes caught our favorites — Glee, 30 Rock, and The Office — on Hulu.) I really enjoyed the big box’s absence. Or, [...]
An original.
Posted in Casserole/One Dish, Fat, Recipe on May 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I call this an original recipe, but can that really be? I bet this idea is just a combination of information and flavors garnered from hours whiled away reading food blog entries, browsing cookbooks, and listening to podcasts. All the information collects in my head and—every so often—out it comes in the form of a [...]
10 Pounds of Chicken Skin
Posted in Fat on March 8, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Ten pounds of chicken skin, rendered in approximately one-pound batches, was carried out—here and there—over one week and yielded close to 10 cups of chicken fat, or schmaltz. I poured the fat into half-pint jars and stored them in the freezer, where it should keep for one year. Last year I used the stove top [...]
Chip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah
Posted in Experimenting, Fat on January 26, 2010 | 4 Comments »
In early December we bought tortillas from Jose’s Tortilleria. We got a mighty stack of white corn tortillas—still warm—for a few bucks. What a deal! We did our best to use them up with some mole-inspired roasted pork, but didn’t come close. We used a few for breakfast burritos. We even tried them as a [...]
Regarding Lard
Posted in Back to Basics, Bread, Fat, Pizza on November 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
2.27 pounds of lard from Rowdy Stickhorse Wild Acres + 2.07 pounds of lard from Downing Family Farm = 7 cups of rendered lard Here’s how ya do it: Fresh lard Cube the lard and add about one cup of water. Slowly melt the fat over low heat for a couple hours.* Once the lard [...]
I’m Screwed
Posted in Fat, Health, In the News on August 10, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I thought I was okay with having high cholesterol…until I heard this: “Midlife Cholesterol Linked to Dementia” on NPR. I’ve had high cholesterol since my early 20s. I just turned 29. I have great “good” cholesterol and blood pressure. Two to three years on a vegetarian diet did nothing to help my “bad” cholesterol. And [...]
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