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Posted in Beer, Wine, and Cocktails, Dessert, Recipe on Apr 16th, 2010
In honor of Tax Day, please enjoy this article, the final installment in our three-part series, following Hundred Dollar Bills: Not Just for Lighting Cigars Anymore and Windex vs. Komodo Dragon Tears: Which One Gets Your Monocle Cleaner? Maybe this is crazy. After all, it did basically start with a dare: I said I was [...]
Posted in Breakfast, Dessert, Recipe, Vegetarian on Mar 5th, 2010
Good morning sports fans, and merry belated Winter Olympics. Weren’t they great, these past few weeks? Rushing home after work to catch some sweet biathlon footage only to find… really? More ice dancing? Okay, seriously, how many rounds of this are there? But in spite of tape delays, ice dancers and Apolo Ono’s soul patch, [...]
Posted in Beer, Wine, and Cocktails, Dessert on Dec 25th, 2009
After hours of stirring and steaming (Part I), and weeks of soaking in alcohol (Part II), this week saw the third and final act of our holiday saga: the eating of the Christmas Pud. Not content with just one epic ordeal of a recipe on the table, we preceded the pudding with a meal of [...]
Posted in Beer, Wine, and Cocktails, Dessert on Dec 18th, 2009
Oh it’s a looker, that Christmas pudding. I hope you disabled the sarcasm detector on your computer before reading that last line, or else BAM! Where’s the needle? It broke clean off. When we last saw our Christmas pudding it had just been mixed, stirred, steamed for eight hours, covered, stuffed into a dark pillowcase, [...]
Posted in Beer, Wine, and Cocktails, Dessert, Recipe on Dec 10th, 2009
Move over, The Canterbury Tales, and get that weak shit outta here, Beowulf: from now on whenever I get a hankering for a real Medieval epic I will look no further than today’s recipe for Christmas Pudding. One Thousand and One Nights? How about one thousand and one different kinds of dried and candied fruit? [...]
Strap on your lederhosen meine damen und herren, and if you don’t have a pair then for God’s sake get thee to a lederhosiery: it’s time for Oktoberfest. In most parts of the country October means leaves changing color. Here in Los Angeles we traditionally celebrate it with earthquakes and wildfires, but this year, just [...]