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Category: Food

  • My new favorite weekend cocktail

    The carajillo at Cicatriz is certainly (and by far) the best I’ve tasted, but it is not, I’ll admit, the one I crave. Because my platonic carajillo is not, by any rational standard, a good drink. It’s cloying and unbalanced and, as Patan pointed out, both utilitarian and over-the-top. It’s irresistibly fusty, the sort of […]

  • Back Yards

    Looky what I found in the back of the apple orchard I used to go to as a kid.  

  • Chaat Nachos

    Added to the #must-make list. Guys, I made this incredible lazy-girl dinner the other day and it was pretty darn good, so I must share. I cleverly call it Chaat Nachos, because it’s a riff on India’s popular street food snack chaat… but in the guise of nachos. via Craving Hot, Sour, Salty Sweet? Make Chaat […]

  • Albuquerque Old Fashioned

    This is my new favorite cocktail. Little sweet, little heat, little oak. INGREDIENTS 2oz Rye 1 barspoon simple syrup 3 dashes Angostura Bitters 6 drops Bittermens Xocolatl Mole Bitters 20 drops Bittermens Hellfire Habanero Shrub Source: Albuquerque Old Fashioned @ bittermans.com

  • Tacos!

    Yum. 

  • Stallin’

    Been stuck here for a while. Classic stall. Time to crack a beer and wait.

  • This is Fun

    This is Fun

    I keep telling myself that. I started getting a small hiss out of the steam boiler. After pulling the lid and inspecting it, it appeared that the seal around the temperature sensor had gone. It was due for a descaling, so I pulled the vac breaker and the drain plug and flushed it with descaler […]

  • Sweet Picks

    Daaaaaaaaaaang.