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Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Okay, I’ve had a bit of fun with the celebrity chefs over at CBSnews Saturday morning and their “under $40” meal,” but the dude this week wanted us to have fucking hamburgers, so I said “Screw That!!!” and made a rotisserie chicken (not pictured). I injected that free range organic little sumbitch with thyme, garlic, lime juice and olive oil and let it dry out in the fridge overnight, as is my custom, so the skin approaches Peking Duck perfection. It turned out okay. Hah! Juicy, tender, moist, this was World Cup runneth over chicken (not pictured). Served alongside bacon fat sautéed spinach and topped off with dessert from a couple of weeks ago, with a couple of embellishments: Obviously, the gaping hole left by pit removal has been filled with raspberries. I also drizzled some cognac on the face of the nectarine to make it a bit more receptive to the brulee torch. The whipped Greek yogurt with lime juice and raspberry accents still provides the base, but I threw a little lime zest in there too for a little more color – and drizzled it with honey again, just to make it sweet. It still looks like a space alien, which, I guess, is my trademark for dessert.     8:39:13 PM    comment []

So, what do you get when you seal up some tiny potatoes, skins left on, no cutting, in your FoodSaver with a few handsful of shallots, skins left on, no cutting, a few sprigs of thyme, and a stick of butter, paper taken off, a bit of cutting there, and some slow simmering for about 2 hours? You get heavenly potatoes, my friend; they can’t overcook and fall apart from excess water because there is no excess water. The bag puffs up and exerts moderate pressure on the contents, mildly forcing the aromas and essences of shallot and thyme right into the soul of the potato. That’s what you get.     8:24:47 PM    comment []

Salad Daze   Red leaf lettuce, daikon and regular radish, fava beans (“Oh, Lordie, Lordie, so much work for so few green beanies, might as well tie me to the whippin’ post…) and a raspberry vinaigrette, standard issue. I meant to toss toasted pignola atop this but plum forgot.   8:15:13 PM    comment []