Pork 'n' Noodles: Archive

Folks, This Ain't Normal →

What is the single most pressing issue, or single most important action that someone can take today? I think it’s to withdraw patronage form the food processors. That’s going to take you buying unprocessed food. Michael Pollan talks about shopping the outside of the supermarket, not the inner aisles. I would even go a step further and say: buy seasonally. Whether it’s a CSA or...

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Jul 14th

Communal Gardening: Garden Work Day →

communalgardening: We put in a good work day on Sunday. Temperatures creeped into the 80s while we put in new support stakes, dug new trenches, and planted. Thom Hanks, one of Leo’s BFFs, supervised and approved of our late afternoon efforts. Here’s what we got going on in our main plot. MG and I dug a…

May 25th

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Pink Pork! →

Big pig news from the USDA: They’re officially granting everyone permission to cook pork to only 145 degrees — that’s medium, baby. The previous guidelines suggested cooking cuts like loins and chops to an infernolike 160, but now the government is totally cool with letting you keep them pink and juicy in the middle. Still, when it comes to cuts like pork belly, you’re gonna...

May 24th

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Chive Pesto and Fingerli(cki)ng Potatoes good...

Wow. The chive pesto from the latest bon appetit is really good. It marries very well with crispy baked fingerling potatoes - and we picked the chives from our garden! Click the link for the recipe.

Apr 27th

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Apr 18th

One year ago today... →

… it looked a lot warmer.

Apr 18th

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Pernil, from the Minimalist

I can attest to how delicious this pork is. Our friend made it for dinner last night with homemade tortillas. I love pork so much. For the recipe, check out The Minimalist Chooses 25 of His Favorites.

Apr 18th

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Apr 15th

communal gardening: a journal: Tomato support... →

FOLLOW OUR 2011 GARDENING JOURNAL communalgardening: Easing into work this morning. Looking ahead to getting tomatoes in the ground, and planning ahead to avoid our unnavigable mess of vines from last year. First of all, we need to prune our suckers more aggressively. Yield will be a bit lower overall (not that we had a problem with that last…

Apr 14th

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Apr 11th

Spring Renewal

oh, hello. nice to see you again. we’re out of our winter coma now. having been born and bred in wisconsin, i’ve come to realize that this is a dual state we live in. brown : green. very cold : very warm. dormant : alive. hibernation : awakening. this winter seemed longer, and more difficult, than most. i don’t know whether to attribute that to personal...

Apr 11th

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i can't eat anything: Pork & Noodles →

hey strangers… leaving it to my friend to fill the temporary void. icanteatanything: I have been slacken on my blog here. Now that the holidays are over, I will get back into it. I’ve taken pictures for a whole bunch that I have not written. This is my version of Baa Mii Tom Yum Muu Haeng which I had at Ping and was super delicious. It wasn’t exactly the same but it was damn…

Jan 13th

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Dec 7th

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Dec 2nd

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New Photo Blog : Food Post →

Posting at KinniPhotos today.

Oct 25th

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Scalloped Potatoes →

Made scalloped potatoes/potatoes au gratin last night. We didn’t take a picture, but it looked something like this. It was tasty. Next time, we’ll add a little more salt and two more slices of bacon. Typical.

Sep 24th

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Green Tomato Curry with Potatoes and Garlic

Fall is here. Get out the sweaters, turn on a football game, and cook up some curry. On Sunday we had a good friend over to watch the Packers pounce on the Bills. I tried this Green Tomato Curry with Potatoes and Garlic, courtesy of another friend who made it for us last week. It’s the perfect seasonal dish right now as the tomatoes in our garden aren’t getting much more color as the temperatures...

Sep 21st

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Asian food withdrawal

Miss me? Well, all I wanted to write is that I’m really craving some Asian food right now. B spent a day pickling over Labor Day weekend with a couple of pickling veterans. Several jars of kimchi will be ready in a couple of weeks. Two things I want to try to make: Kimchi Bacon Deviled Eggs (a Momofuku recipe) AND Banh Bao When B was in the hospital in Danang for Dengue Fever last...

Sep 14th

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Sep 2nd

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Germany Bans Cultivation of GM Corn →

Aug 31st

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A New Time-Sucker

Yes, please. lawntakeover: OMG this site has taken up so much of my brain real estate these past few days.

Aug 25th

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Companion Planting →

funwithplantingplans: thenaturalnookmusings: I know it may be a little late for some of these, but this is a handy, easy to read chart about what to plant together to limit pests and improve yield. Happy Gardening! Always helpful for planning out next year!

Aug 24th

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Math Lessons for Locavores →

Aug 24th

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Welcome, Gilbert and Dilbert!

On Sunday, we officially expanded our family to five. The newest additions are two male betta fighting fish, Gilbert and Dilbert (a.k.a. Gilbeys and Dilbeys). Now that grandparents have moved into town, we’ve been the lucky recipients of some neat family heirlooms, like these giant Gilbey’s martini glasses. (Gilbey’s is a London dry gin. Check out this “raving” review...

Aug 24th

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Looking ahead

Excuses for not caring for the garden in the past few weeks include bad mosquitoes, hotter-than-hades weather, out-of-town guests, and helping family move. Result: the garden is not looking pretty. To name a few things: tomato cages are knocked over and the plants have been hit with some early blight; the leaves on our squash plants have a dusting of white stuff on them (mold?); some of our...

Aug 19th

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Mid-August garden update

It’s mid-August here in Wisconsin and the mosquitoes are bad, bad, bad. I could tolerate them until about two weeks ago when the wet and humid weather started. Now, I curse them. They’re out in full force and I can’t walk the dog without hearing the mean mamas bzzzzzing in my ear and biting my (and Leo’s) warm, inviting skin. Their existence only exacerbates my desire for...

Aug 11th

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Aug 8th

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O-M-G

[thanks to disgrasian for this discovery]

Aug 4th

Jul 28th

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La Cuisine D'Art →

Happening across great food blogs makes me really happy. B and I are okay cooks, but one thing’s for sure: we love to eat. Mari’s “compilation of [food] awesomeness” will be a new source of inspiration for us to get our aprons on and get in the kitchen. And if that doesn’t happen, La Cuisine D’Art will just make us really, really hungry, all of the time.

Jul 28th

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Green beans: the ideal pickling vegetable?

Dan came across this on Serious Eats, the monster food blog/community that profiled the Old Fashioned Burger just last week. We’re still waiting on our beans, but they’ll come…

Jul 28th

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Jul 26th

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Die Fruit Flies, Die!

With compost and produce lying around the kitchen, fruit flies have entered our dining scene. Click on the picture for how to make the ultimate, reuseable fruit fly trap. If only they had a similar contraption for earwigs (besides our dog).

Jul 22nd

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Skippy's Vegetable Garden →

This woman does such a great job with her gardening blog. I always enjoy her pictures and her posts are very informative. Skippy also looks like a giant version of Leo. Cutie.

Jul 22nd

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Squash Blossoms

Our “resident cook”/co-gardener friend Dan made some delicious fried squash blossoms the other week. He simply dipped the blossoms in battered egg, rolled them in panko breadcrumbs, added some seasoning, and fried them in some oil. The resulting appetizers were hot, crisp, and delicious. It was our first time eating squash blossoms (in fact, we didn’t even know that you could eat...

Jul 21st

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Jaune Flamme

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm….. more jaune flammes should be ready to be picked this week. Check out this quinoa salad recipe from Todd and Diane.

Jul 20th

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Monsanto 'charity' comes to Haitian farmers

[from rabble.ca] Despite the inexcusable stalling and siphoning off of aid to Haiti six months after the devastating earthquake, the people of Haiti are currently fighting the charity of one overly eager corporation: Monsanto. In a seemingly generous offer, the corporation donated over 470 tons of hybrid corn and vegetable seeds to be distributed through USAID and the Haitian Ministry of...

Jul 16th

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Orange beauties

+ = Delicious Guacamole Being a member of a community garden = secret tips about when the Georgia peach truck is rolling through town. “If I had my little way I’d eat peaches everyday/sun soakin’ bulges in the shade.”

Jul 15th

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Sky High Harvest →

We just became fans of Sky High Harvest on Facebook. You should, too!

Jul 14th

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Jul 11th

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Jul 11th

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Watch

Detroit Urban Agriculture Movement Looks to Reclaim Motor City In Detroit, demolition crews are planning to tear down 10,000 residential buildings over the next four years that the city has deemed dangerous. But as old structures are coming down, the city is redefining itself in other ways. An estimated 20 to 30 percent of the city’s lots are vacant, and there is a growing urban agriculture...

Jun 29th

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Jun 26th