Hah! Well you've hit the nail on the head, I'm in California and clam chowder with good fresh clams is a rare treat.
I use canned clams in my chowder, and I usually reach for some fatty pork product to render fat for sauteing the veggies and as a finishing garnish (I once splurged on some guanciale, but wasn't a discernable enough upgrade to be worth repeating). Interesting to know that the chowder isn't traditionally thick. I can't think of a single time I've had it at a restaurant where it wasn't, which is why I was adding extra thickeners to try to match that expectation.
Yep, didn't have any bacon in the house, but I like having a little meaty salty bite in my chowder, and turns out spam fried until crunchy fits the bill!
I have no interest in reading anything beyond the original six books (and even 5 and 6 are just okay), so I have no clue as to the content or quality of the source material, but man am I praying it's at least close to the quality of the movies. So tired of big budget shows with god-awful writing. It looks like the showrunner was in charge of season 2 of Altered Carbon and season 4 of Westworld, neither of which I was particularly enamored with, but I'll still hope for good things for this show.
Oh certainly try it, clam chowder is one of my favorite soups. Both New England and Manhattan style are delicious, but my inner fatass prefers the New England.
I differ from the usual recipes in that I'm a sucker for really getting some good browning on the vegetables before adding the liquid. The flavor is worth the trade off of having a tan colored chowder rather than the pale cream of the traditional New England style.
I agree, soup weather is the best!
Doesn't quite fit the briefing of food porn (imo it's pretty hard to make soups/stews aesthetically pleasing), but sure did taste good.
Didn't have the cream I'd normally use, but made do with 2% milk and buttermilk powder, and then I added potato flakes and a bit of gelatin for some extra body.
My exact thoughts! Also the dual meaning of "swatted."
Pretty gutted, had just started to harvest this year's crop. Just the cherry on top of an already shit day. Even managed to snap the half inch metal stake I put there when I first planted it in February 2021.
[Image description: view of a row of five young fruit trees planted in half wine barrels in a home garden.]
This feels worse.
In 2016, I could at least rationalize that some people were voting for an outsider, a "billionaire" who promised to fight corruption in D.C. Anyone paying attention could see he was an immoral dipshit who was corrupt himself, but I could understand how he won.
Now? We've all had years to see who he is, and if that wasn't enough, to see his rapid mental decline. This time I don't understand.
Archipiélago
Oh my god I love that
I second Lorn! Dark ambient electronic sprinkled liberally with glitch elements is chef's kiss.
Also would recommended Amon Tobin. ISAM is one of my favorite albums, and Lost and Found is often the song I'll put on to introduce folks to his style.
Yeah, I could also see there being variability between dialects and how much they respectively pronounce in a word. "What's that?" could easily become "waz-at?" which is much quicker to say.
Ooh yum, what's the sauce? I've got a cucumber in the fridge that needs using, and this looks tasty.
Harder to stand up, but SO much easier to carve!
This year I tried something my dad used to do, and dressed up as a scarecrow with the bowl on my lap. With that and my husband dropping a spider from above, we put the scary back in Halloween! 😈
Or as one parent put it, "you make them work for that candy!" 🤣
This was something my dad used to do when I was a kid. Next year when the kids will remember the person in the scarecrow, it will actually be stuffed, and I'll be hiding somewhere else!
View from a little further away, my husband was hiding behind the screen door controlling a spider that dropped from above 😈
[Image description: nighttime view of the front door of a house decorated for Halloween. A scarecrow sits on the porch with a large spider hanging above. In the foreground is a dark hooded mannequin, with swirling fog.]
I think you're supposed to pinch them off, but they're just too pretty.
The text of the plaque reads:
KATE and ELLA 1895
Kate and Ella the daughters of the Rea family were early settlers of Anaheim. The family named their ranch "Katella Ranch" after their daughters. The original Anaheim wagon track was later named after them and is now Katella Ave.
Artist: Ramon G Velazco June 2008
Developer Anaheim Gardenwalk II LLC City of Anaheim Public Art Program
Was out with a bunch of fellow geologists, who all got a kick out of looking at Saturn and the moon. Was only taking pictures with my phone, and so didn't get a good shot of Saturn, but thought this one of the moon was nice.
First time making baklava, used up some nuts that needed eating before they turned rancid. I used browned rather than just melted butter, sprinkled some macadamia nuts on top, and used pomegranate molasses in the syrup, which gave it a bit of tang.
[Image description: an aluminum pan with baklava, the bottom layers of phyllo dough saturated with sticky syrup, followed by a layer of chopped nuts, the upper layers of phyllo dough semi-saturated and flaky, and topped with a few more chopped nuts.]
It's been a while since I've grown parsnips, but I saw a contestant on the Great British Bake Off make a parsnip cake (as opposed to a carrot cake), and that's got me itching to grow them again.