November 2010
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September 2010
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i left my heart in madison: a restaurant review,...
An aviation holding pattern, says my inappropriately-anthropomorphized friend Mr. Wikipedia, is “a maneuver designed to delay an aircraft already in flight while keeping it within a specified airspace.” I flew to Madison, Wisconsin last weekend to see the woman I love. The plane I was on landed early, mercifully and quickly — I was anxious to see her, after all. My heart is...
July 2010
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January 2010
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running with tweezers : sugar coma →
(9:57:17 AM) doctorzachary: there are points in the arc of human history that have shaped us more than others (9:57:20 AM) doctorzachary: the discovery of fire (9:57:22 AM) doctorzachary: the invention of the wheel (9:57:24 AM) doctorzachary: the printing press (9:57:25 AM) doctorzachary: the internet (9:57:27 AM) doctorzachary: and now (9:57:29 AM) doctorzachary: the frosting shot
December 2009
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November 2009
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update, just to make one
Nothing worry of comment. The winter doldrums hit me like a sack of 3-day-old baguettes, and it’s been a lot of kale and soup (and not a small amount of Easy Mac.)
And hey, it’s Hawks season, so most of my ‘nutrition’ has come in this form:
About ten days ago I was operating at 40% happiness, but I’m up to maybe 83% now. Expect a post soon.
October 2009
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quick #eaton30 wrap-up
Quick stats about my Eat on 30 experience:
$27.74: my final budget
$16.24: my final budget excluding alcohol (DOH!)
$??.??: the amount you are going to donate to Project Open Hand
(infinity): the amount of face-punches you’ll get you if you don’t!
Threats. It’s How I Roll.(TM)
In all seriousness though, thank you so much to Tami at Running With Tweezers for running this...
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Thursday roundup for Eat on 30, plus a poetic...
First, the lesson. *waterfall, chirping birds and gong sound*
I make remarkably good fried chicken. I cooked some last night for lunch today. I’m not sure what happened, so I’ll write a haiku about it:
on the frying of chicken late at night
why’s it in my hand?
should be cooling on the rack—
damn! it’s in my mouth.
So… I wasn’t hungry at all...
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on building blocks, fish heads and my approach to...
A few days, a few meals and a few conversations later, I have a lot of thoughts. Some of them are actually about food and the Eat On 30 project! (Most are about fancy ladies, contemporary dancing and Kanye West.) Time to clumsily up-end the old noodle. Coincidentally, this post begins with pasta.
Tuesday night, I spent the whole night creating “building blocks,” staples I would...
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breakfast, #eaton30 style (or not)
Today I had one of the best breakfasts of recent memory. My usual breakfast is healthy yogurt and fruit or granola or maybe french toast, or a bloody mary, or a red bull and a bag of beef jerky, or a hot dog, or room temperature Antico pizza, or deep breaths while clutching my head.
Today I made this:
That’s three ounces of my chicken sausage (two patties), a whole potato, pan-fried...
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uses for a whole chicken and my first real dinner,...
Once I regained access to my knives and tools, Eat On 30 started being really good to me. First, I took apart the whole chicken:
(Roughly left to right: stock bones in bowl, organs and fat in small plastic bin, thigh meat and trim for sausage on the cutting board, breasts, tenderloins, wings and drumsticks in the large plastic bin.)
I then mixed the sausage meat chunks with some simple...
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on shopping for #eaton30
As I shopped for my ingredients yesterday, I found myself picking up some new habits. Tami described the experience to me as ‘methodical,’ and I would definitely agree.
Every bit of produce was weighed
Every sale sticker was like a beacon
Every decision (or most of them, at least) involved a sacrifice in taste
The weight of items is simply not something I was always conscious of. ...
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eating on $30: first thoughts, worries and plans
This week begins my first attempt (and let’s be frank — it’s an attempt unless I prove that I can do it) at Tami’s Eat on $30 project.
The premise is simple: eat no more than $30 of food and drink for a week, which is close to (but more than) the amount that a person in the USA receives for government assistance. A lot of people are participating, and you can find their...
Josh Smith Eating Breakfast - TrueHoop By Henry... →
bacon, trout sandwiches, and ill-advised three-pointers
running with tweezers: The Eat on $30 Project -... →
Starting on the 11th, for one week, foodies and bloggers and foodbloggers (oh my) will be calling attention to hunger issues by eating on thirty dollars for a week. I’m taking part this time around; thoughts to come.
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what now?
Welcome!
I’ve started a few blogs and built a nest on a few social networking sites over the years. What invariably occurs is that what starts as a place to collect my thoughts becomes a bulletin board covered with food photos. This site is an attempt to corral those food photos (and hopefully a little writing about food) into one place.
“Mise en face” is a terrible pun. ...