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Category: food

average adult weight?

I’ve recently switched from fish oil to krill oil for several reasons, all of which can be found on Michael Eades’s Protein Power blog post Why krill oil?.
The summary is that it’s much more potent than fish oil because the good omega-3 fatty acids it contains are the same shape as the fats in your [...]

here fishy fishy

As part of my paleo diet experiment, I’ve also been taking a lot of fish oil pills. By “a lot” I mean 10g — that is, 10x 1000mg — pills per day. Of course, before I started, I did what any sane person does these days: pseudo-research on the internet, reading random websites and taking [...]

mas comidas

Slicing a sliver of delicioso.

Traditional Spanish breakfast: a full cup of chocolate with churros. No, I also don’t know why the entire country hasn’t died of diabetes yet.

Absolutely delightful.

Beep!
Back for a few days and I’m already missing eating tapas for every meal.

spanish victuals

Did I mention that I love jamón ibérico?

The red glasses contain a drink known as tinto de verano, which consists of ice cubes, red wine, and seltzer water. It’s actually much better than it sounds, and not to be confused with a kalimotxo.

hungrygrrl

I’ve been reading a friend’s foodie blog ever since Potlatch last year, and now I’m passing it along to you, dear readers.
You get a taste of Seattle and the lovely understated writing of a poet’s whispered observations.
But there’s also flair:

My halibut paled in comparison, but it wasn’t really fair. The halibut came over fava [...]

mmm…crema

Speed Racer psp
crema art, Seattle, WA

Broken Bridges
What Doesn’t Kill You movie download
I miss Seattle. *sniff*

elysian + new belgium = yay

Life has its own synchronocity — New Belgium and Elysian breweries to cross-brew beer at each other’s breweries.
I just visited Elysian last week, and sampled some of their jasmine infused IPA. It was deliciously quirky, and a good second place to my most favourite of all beers, Odell’s IPA.
As a fan of New Belgium’s business [...]

bourbon pecan ham

I experimented with ham last night, my first one, and used this bourbon pecan ham recipe. It was a huge success, and the nice part was, I didn’t really need to modify the recipe at all. About the only thing I would suggest is that 325 is a bit low, and takes much longer than [...]

$92 paella

I alluded to making paella a few posts ago. I used this seafood paella recipe, and it came out delicious. I’ll save you some time of reading through the comments by telling you the modifications I used for extra jawesomeness:

add one pound spicy chorizo and/or andoulllie sausage. Cook it like you would the chicken, [...]

turkey 2006 = huge success

Last year, I made my first turkey. The turkey itself came out pretty good, but as I noted in the blog posting, the gravy was weak and watery. It took about 2 hours of reducing to get it to thicken up, due to lack of enough roux.
This year, we tried again with another early Thanksgiving. [...]