Category Archives: Food and Cooking

Kitchen adventures, disasters, and triumphs

“Beer! Beer! Beer! I like to drink lots of beer!”

Posted on April 1, 2003 by Marchbanks

He explained that if I substituted fresh for dried one-for-one, I’d get a beer that tasted of nothing but ginger. Continue reading →

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In honor of the lousy weather

Posted on February 25, 2003 by Marchbanks

which is utterly appropriate to serving thick soups, I am having bechinalt, a Hungarian gizzard soup with lots of garlic, for dinner. Weird Al has an Iran tornado once he finished. Fnord.

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Smoke, smoke, smoke that cig . . . ummm . . . rack of ribs

Posted on February 12, 2003 by Marchbanks

Good lord, it even scans properly! Continue reading →

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Taking stock

Posted on January 26, 2003 by Marchbanks

All the house smells of the thick vegetable stock I’m making up this afternoon. Continue reading →

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Assorted Christmas Day recipes

Posted on December 26, 2002 by Marchbanks

Colonial goose (leg of lamb); egyptian rice and lentils; süss-saures rotkraut; trifle Continue reading →

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39 pints

Posted on December 7, 2002 by Marchbanks

The final gravity was 1.016, so it probably has more punch to it than anything I’d get off the shelf at Central Market. Continue reading →

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’Nother beer mistake

Posted on November 5, 2002 by Marchbanks

I don’t like beer flavored with cinnamon and nutmeg. Continue reading →

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Bottling beer

Posted on October 27, 2002 by Marchbanks

I got 38 pints bottled and on the shelf to condition for the next month. Continue reading →

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Brownies in the oven

Posted on October 25, 2002 by Marchbanks

I had to make something to take to an after-production Dessert Reception. Continue reading →

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The brisket’s done

Posted on October 15, 2002 by Marchbanks

. . . I hope. Continue reading →

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