http://thusbakeszarathustra.com Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 30 Jun 2010 06:58:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is a very simple salad of frisee (often called curly endive) and a warm dressing and a couple of poached eggs. It originally had bacon in it, but I don't eat bacon so I just fried up a chopped shallot, whisked in a bit of mustard, thyme and vinegar, ... http://thusbakeszarathustra.com/?p=462 As I've discussed elsewhere, I like pasta because pasta is more about shape and form than flavour. The medium is the message, style before substance, form before function etc.  I like papardelle because it cooks up to big ole flappy flaps and it comes in angry-looking fists, and I like ... http://thusbakeszarathustra.com/?p=455 So... it's been 22 days since I last posted. I suck as a blogger, clearly. Which is ironic, because I'm going to be talking about blogging at the Emerging Writers Festival this Saturday as part of their town hall program.  Also, the wonderful Estelle of literary journal and blog Kill ... http://thusbakeszarathustra.com/?p=448 Apparently the done thing now is to make, and tend to, sourdough starters with all the care and tenderness you might apply to hydroponic marijuana. I just don't have the patience for that. I cook with yeast, often, but it's usually either Deborah Madison's heavenly yeasted pie crust or a ... http://thusbakeszarathustra.com/?p=442   (image ganked from Stumptuous) Reflection on feminine comportment and body movement in other physical activities reveals that these are also frequently characterized, much as in the throwing case, by a failure to make use of the body's spatial and lateral potentialities. - Iris Marion Young I don't want to bury the lede: I'm ... http://thusbakeszarathustra.com/?p=441 This was meant to be finished with handfuls of crumbled potato chips, or crisps as my deeply Anglo mother would prefer I call them, but I became uncharacteristically squeamish and went with a bit of grated gruyere instead. Don't bitch out, dear readers. Go the potato chips. Might I suggest ... http://thusbakeszarathustra.com/?p=437 If you're one of those who likes to opine that they were a vegetarian for a while but you got sick then got stuck in to the meat again and then you were better, I immediately conclude that you are a giant child. Let me back up. I've been a vegetarian ... http://thusbakeszarathustra.com/?p=433 You know what's the best, you guys? Sunday night broadcast television in Australia. It's been so long since I've sat down in front of honest-to-goodness scheduled bust out the clicker and Chocolate Wheatens broadcast TV, and it's rather soothing. There's Juliana Margulies' very nice hair doing something legal, then Hugh ... http://thusbakeszarathustra.com/?p=431 I made these biscuits because I wanted a tinful of something sensible to have with tea when I came home from the office after a long day at the thesismill. I did not want a cookie; cookies are big and soft and chewy and rich. If a cookie was a ... http://thusbakeszarathustra.com/?p=422 Seriously, you guys, I'm so over writing about food right now. Let's just eat pancakes. Pancakes Via Deborah Madison. Amounts given make enough for four; I usually halve the quantities and freeze leftovers. Yep, you can freeze pancakes, just wrap tightly in plastic wrap while still warm, then zap (wrapped) in the ... http://thusbakeszarathustra.com/?p=419