The Posts That Never Made It
It’s fair to say that I think about food more than your average bear. Perhaps it’s no accident that when I was a kid, one of my favorite cartoon characters was the food-obsessed Yogi Bear.
So I’ve got this blog. And it’s a great vehicle for getting all of these thoughts out of my head. But I only write one post a day, usually late in the evening when the world is quiet. That means sometimes when I’ve got a notion about food that starts rattling around in my brain during the day, I have to write it down and put it aside to write about later.
These days, when the inspiration strikes, I’ll ask Siri to take a note. But all of these ideas find their way into a large Google doc I’ve been maintaining for years. Now, it’s become impossibly long. Many of these stories are either stale or I’ve just lost interest in writing them. And I have to face the fact that they’ll never be converted into a post.
However, I can’t bear to simply delete them. Instead, I’m going to share them with you. Hopefully this will be more interesting than it sounds.
COOKING
Freezer Meals ala Graceful Little Honeybee
Uses for Old Bread (from the ZUNI cookbook)
Waste Not Want Not (Laddoo cookies)
What to do with leftover chickpea flour
TJs mac and cheese – make a slurry of the powder in milk before adding
Steaks for WrigsMac (minute steaks with filet mignon)
Try some popover recipes
What cooking techniques go into the generic mediterranean dish?
Cooking for 4 vs. Cooking for 1
Roast Chicken in a Pot (w/bread)
Easy if you have 3 Days – Diplomatico
Vegetarian Dinners
Easy Skillet Fries (wedges)
Tales from the CSA (Salsa)
HEALTH
Gut Health
Certified Organic Grocery Store?
Drink More Water Flow Chart
Nothing Comforting About Comfort Food
DRINKING
Beers with Brother-in-Law (Bells Expedition Stout & Acme IPA)
Cider vs. Juice vs. hard cider
Cocktail Menu (Dona Tomas v. Mexican Radio – existence of prices)
If you would find it unacceptable to invite people over to your house for a party and charge them for cocktails, then the same should hold for a wedding.
But this isn’t about being “cheap” it’s about misplaced priorities.
I’m with Miss Manners when it comes to wedding planning priorities:
– First, figure out who you want at your wedding.
– Second, figure out how much you can reasonably spend on the event.
– Third, plan the details of the wedding and reception around those.
If that means tea and finger sandwiches being poured and passed by dear friends of the couple, then so be it. The point of weddings and receptions is to help commemorate the occasion. If anyone you know will be a grump at the wedding because your reception won’t have an open bar, see priority number one.
Lucas Confectionery wine list
Coppersea-Distilling (CHARLEBOIS!)
Reasonably good sherry
Brandy vs. Brandy
Vermouth Tasting
Is there a traditional time for drinking Scotch (before or after dinner, for example)? Or a traditional way to drink it (with or without a meal, with a cigar)?
RUSTIC wine in a box – and why that’s good
The line outside the bar – for OTE?
Terrified of the wine list
VeeV Cocktail at Home
SPRING – Where did iced coffee come from?
Bourbon Tasting
FOOD
The one thing to eat at Starbucks
Major League XLB at Ala Shanghai
Six Small Cities with Big Food Scenes
Pizza worth a drive for… once. How far will you go for food? (Paris for butter, Philly for cheesesteaks, Flushing for dim sum)
More on Organic Honey
Regional Italian Sandwiches at the place in Princeton
Foodie Friday: Vox Pop Talking Points
Local chocolate companies (Peter’s owned by Cargill)
Financier > Cupcake
Giving people what they want vs. following your vision (nobody was clamoring for iPods before Apple brought them to market)
Check Out Eggs from 8 Mile Farm?
Olive oil tasting results
Off the Grid – ginamodschooler April 25, 2012 1:39 pm
Lick in Hudson and Catskill Mountain Foundation in Hunter serves Jane’s Ice Cream, which is made in Kingston. I’m pretty sold on their Killer Chocolate. But I don’t know if you count Columbia/Greene counties in your estimation of the region – technically we are, but the mindset seems to be that we’re sort of off that grid.
Cheese on a stick – dangerous deadly delicious disgusting
Call Rolf’s re: Baconing
Ed Lass Sandwich
What makes Subway the Best
Reach out to Subway fans
Eat the Moe’s Burrito
Chicken Joe’s
Bake for You
CAFÉ LA PERCHE – HUDSON
CHINESE – Which regions represented
Good stuff – happy charcuterie at Gastropub
Creo vs. Creo
Fall Menus
Balsamic Reduction
Steppenwolf – Two eaters in one body – “I’m hungry for chicken parm” vs. “What does the Chef have in store for me tonight”
Maple tasting – Chocolate tasting
Airline food, still awful
Ginkgo Nuts
Buttermilk
After listening to that the radio show last Friday, it’s clear that more consumer education is direly needed in the region. Even more than I had thought. I’ve got to start thinking bigger.
Sweating the Small Stuff
Beef: Grass vs. Grain – chefs’ consortium
ALBANY IS SCARED (scared to try new things, scared to go downtown, scared to venture past their neighborhood)
Schedule Saratoga Cheese Cave Tour
Meet with Mezza Notte lady
PA cheese thing
SALES AT HWFC
Email – Mildreds Meadow
Email – HWFC cheese guy
Email – Chipotle (tomatoes, jalapenos, brown rice, margarita mix?)
Foods I only eat once a year
The end of winter – Cayuga Pure Organics
Products – Chocolate Chip Cookies
In defense of ketchup
Integrity – ala shanghai – peter pause – dirty dans – cappuccino joint
Low Expectations: “Meat isn’t green and the vegetables aren’t brown”
And would you believe this is only a partial list? I’m never going to run out of material for writing this blog. Never.
FUSSYlittleBLOG 
Gut health? I’m all over that!
That chick pea flour link is quite a tease. Leads to a recipe that uses a full 3 T of the stuff. I had the same problem as you and the hack was to forget about it till the bugs got it. There is probably a better solution for using leftover chickpea flour so I hope you’ll return to it.
Otherwise, quite a list and quite an insight into the mind of the profusser. Like “Inside Out” crossed with “Babette’s Feast”.
yeah, i have about 25# of the stuff kicking around and no real outlet
You have one helluva creative mind!!!
If you felt like reviving ‘drink more water,’ ‘natural and artificial flavors,’ ‘comfort food,’ ‘eat at Starbucks (???),’ ‘chix parm vs. chef,’ ‘foods once a year,’ ‘integrity,’ and/or ‘low expectations,’ I wouldn’t be mad at ya.
Wow, you must feel better with this list no longer rattling around in your head.