Archive for the ‘Cheese’ Category

Crab+Bacon+Walnut=Ravioli

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

First, I got to work on the filling. I had Dungeness crab and bacon, and decided to bind them with potatoes and walnuts. Of course, merely mashing up two potatoes wasn't enough for me. No, I actually made a micro-batch of fresh shrimp stock from shells, carrot, onion, celery, parsley, ...

Watching Cheese Ripen

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

Lovers of real Cheddar cheese from real England will turn a somersault over Somerset, England's West Country Farmhouse Cheesemakers in Shepton Mallet. They've finally given us the transparency we so sorely need at cheddarvision.tv.

I want the funk uncut.

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

All at once, I'm giving a new format and a new feature a spin today. Such daredevilry is most often the jurisdiction of heros, emperors and utter fools, and I am, without question, no emperor or hero. Older articles with larger images will probably look wonky until I get ...

A Recollection of Istria

Wednesday, December 27th, 2006

Heading from Zagreb to the Istrian peninsula is a bit like bidding farewell to a tipsy uncle at a boisterous family gathering as you retreat to the peace of a rustic cottage in a cool, quiet forest. I’d arrived in Croatia’s easygoing capital a few days earlier on my first ...

The Last of the Yesterturkey

Monday, December 4th, 2006

It ends today. Aw, sweet geez, it's fried slices of an extremely dense soufflé made from The Last of the Yesterturkey, unused herb stuffing nuggets, cheddar, cream cheese and many eggs. The very least I could have done was use turkey eggs, but I couldn't find any. Why don't people eat ...