Milk dud

I bought a car. 

Then I had a celebratory lunch at island empenadas:

Then I got the car windows tinted

Then I drove to Atlantic City for my mothers birthday and won money playing black jack and pai gow. 

Then I went to the sayville farmers market 2 weekends in a row and bought a lot of food. Some pictured below, some not. 

That's all kinds of different greens from an organic farm in yaphank. I snack all day on them. 

That's cherry salsa, hot Spanish olives, and the remnants of sour pickles I got. Plus jalapeño pickles lurking. Brine-a-mania!

That's Japanese eggplant, a red onion, a daikon radish, and edible flowers. The edible flowers are from a distributor out here. The first week at the farmers market, I didnt see the lady that I got them from last year. Soooo, being the lunatic that I am, I tracked down a place to get them, with many confused looks and bewildered stares. They come from Long Island. Evidently a Dutch conglamorate bought farmland out here and flowers are one of their crops. Great. Except they taste like kaopectate. But, don't be sad. The second week at sayville the flower lady was there with her polish mother. So i asked and she said she'll bring some just for me, they're about to be in bloom. This has made my summer....I'm very lonely...lol haha

That's peaches and tomatoes and plums. Yum.

And that's fingerling potatoes and garlic and beets.

Next time I'll take pictures of the food I make, but you can use your imagination til then.

Sorry it's been so long, photo dump

March 28th? To July 2nd? Ooph. What can I say. I'm here now.

I made liverwurst a long time ago. Cause I craved it.

And deviled eggs.

And then spring sprung, thank god.

And then I went to a mets game

And then I made cupcakes. 

Then I ate delicious Venezuelan food. Poor pics to represent DELICIOUS food.

Gimme sweet plantains all daaaaayyy.

I bought PAN flour to make my own. You cut the biscuits above in half and stuff them with beef and plantains. And then prepare for death cause there's nothin else to live for.

And then I got dressed up forth cousins wedding. Where does the time go???

You're a pizza of...

So, some follow up on saurkraut.

There it is. On a Nathan's with some spicy brown. The poor man's filet mignon. Too bad there's snow on the ground as I write this.

Lets...go...mets........

The saurkraut was/is so good. I still have some left in the mason jar. When I finish it, I'm making more. So easy, so tasty, so healthy. 

I'm an obsessive creep, so I made more carmelized onions. To put on pizza:

Boboli crust(that's right, I'm lazy, sue me)

Goat cheese, onions, tomatoes, basil, balsamic reduction. So gd good, so so so easy.

Extra tasty while watching the wwf hall of fame ceremony....yep

Kraut

I'm makin my own saurkraut and I'm on the edge of my seat.

And now for a magic trick.

Salt on cabbage. 

Day 1 above

Day 2!

Random bibimbap from a friend!

Tuna casserole I made tonight!

Aaaaahhhh! Saurkraut!!!!!!!!!

Sweet sweet sliders

For the Super Bowl I made mini cheese burgers, also known as..."sliders"... 

I didn't get any pics cause they were gone so fast. (I'm looking at you, Antonio) 

I needed to make them again, they were so goddam good. The secret is carmelized onions. I add bacon and special sauce...but the onions make it. 

I took 3 big yellow onions and sautéed them:

Then I sautéed them some more

And then I sautéed them some more

And next time I'm gonna do a whole 2 pound bag of onions because I want to put this on everything.

Then I prepped the bull...I mean buns.

Burger time

Oh boy.

In unrelated news, I watched Birdman. What an awful movie.

Choco-Bliss

No, not my favorite sweet treat from Cumberland Farms in the 80's. 

Chocolate linguine. 

I have this healthy cacao powder that I put in smoothies and chili.

Far superior to...cocoa powder.

I figured I'd mix it in with pasta flour and see how it turned out. It's not crazy, they make this stuff in Italy. 

Flour, powder, and egg.

A ball of shit...I mean chocolate pasta dough.

A blurry picture due to nervous exhilaration of dreadlocks of a bum I killed and scalped...I mean a blurry picture of chocolate pasta after rolling an cutting.

Chocolate Alfredo. This was really good. The chocolate is slightly bitter, which I like, and it went really well with the sauce, which was butter, garlic, half and half, and Parmesan cheese. Also delicious with red wine.

Here it is mixed:

Tremendage.

I'm other news, I went to the doctor and saw a cool x-ray of my well healed leg.

Just imagine. When I die I'm gonna be dust and bone and titanium. Then just dust and titanium.

But I'm alive now and have so much hair I have to do this to shave:

Teaser pic for next time:

Ciao!

Pastamania runs wild

It's a time of year that can only be described as hell on earth. No reason to leave the house.

Why go on? To read, to eat. All the fields of wheat. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FyZkp7EX7LU

In this dark time, I powered through an made fresh pasta with a pasta machine my friend James got me. I don't have much to say. I documented the entire process with photos.

Let's take a look!

The machine.

The flour and egg on my counter.

The transformation.

Some dough.

All the dough, pressed and cut. That is a handy dandy pasta drying rack. In this case I have "ah" strand of pasta, actually, enough to necessitate an entire rack.

I think Kerplunk would work just as well.

The sauce? Garlic and butter and tomato and parsley.

The pasta:

The finished dish:

I'm going to make this more often.