Category: food (of all types)
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Would You Like Some Deer Antler with Those Wings?
Why yes, I did watch the Super Bowl this past weekend. I know the complete absence of any suggestion of Beyonce’s fierce halftime show outfit must have had you all wondering. We actually went over to a friends’ house to watch it. It was fairly entertaining because (1) we’re not really that into football, (2)…
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Date Night Redux
The components of a good date night (from this last Saturday). Perusing a book on Peru with a cosmo. Chef XFE’s cocktail of choice. Steak waiting to be grilled with it’s little friend, asparagus. Domino potatoes waiting to go into the oven. Wine decanting. Howard on demand. Petunia, acting…
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How Not to Do Date Night
My super significant other and I had one of those so-called “date nights” the other night. Well, I guess you could call it a “date night.” We put on real clothes and left the house for a pre-planned activity. This is one of those things you have to do when you’ve been together for seven…
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Girls Gone Wild in the OT
My parental guidance counselor, XFE is out of town for work this week, leaving Petunia and I to fend for ourselves once again. So, there’s been a lot of this: And this: And this: Actually, that last one is a big, fat, wishful creamy lie. Because even though XFE was also out of town for…
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All I Want for Christmas is World Peace. And a Gateau Basque.
So Christmas is always, in my experience, an emotional roller coaster. And I don’t like roller coasters. Or emotions, really. But what I do like is cake. Or, pie. Or, cookie/pie/cake hybrids. Which is why for Christmas this year, I made a Gateau Basque. Actually, we’re not very big on sweets in thePoeLog household. Neither…
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Rioja Part Two: Do Great Architects Make Good Wine?
“This Gehry guy really seems to know what he’s doing,” I said out loud, albeit, a bit breathlessly. I’m pretty sure the bellhop heard me on that one. The swirling riot of metallic ribbons of fuschia, gold and silver that make up the roof of the Hotel Marques de Riscal will do that to a…
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Rioja: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Winemaking (and a teeny bit of actual drinking)
Our three-day visit to the Rioja wine route in Spain has made us experts at making wine. Prior to this trip, my personal sommelier XFE and I felt fully confident that after watching two seasons of Moonshiners, several tours of distilleries (including Jameson in Ireland) and quite a few breweries (mostly in Colorado), and probably…
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Take a Bow, Bilbao
Bilbao. The name itself fills the mouth. I’ll admit, at first, I kept messing it up. Pronouncing it like the last name of a certain famous movie boxer. I could not quite get my tongue around it. For the record, it’s Bihl. Bow. As in, take a bow. And indeed, the resilient Spanish city by…
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Post-Thanksgiving Turkey Coma Activities
I’m going to go out on a limb here and declare Thanksgiving my favorite holiday. Quite a controversial statement, I know. Hopefully, Olivier Martinez doesn’t come over and give me a turkey day whooping for uttering such a contrarian viewpoint. (In his defense, he’s French, so he probably doesn’t really respect the whole Thanksgiving dealio. Come…
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Spain Does Not Suck
Hola chicas (y, un solo chico, possiblimente)! Como estamos? I’m great! And back from a fabulous vacation in Northern Spain. Petunia really wanted to go. She’s Calico, which is kinda close to Catalonian, so she thinks she should go to Spain. In the photo above, she is sitting on my travel binder. Oh, do you…