— Anthony Bourdain on veganism. see the decade-old clip here.
红烧肉(hong shao rou), my favorite meat dish of all time {Shanghai, 05.24.10}.
made 2 varieties of healthyish cookies this time: chocolate chip and trail mix. also substituted butter with bananas (it’s possible!). these also look better than the monstrosities from last time.
out of the blue one day, i decided i wanted to bake some chocolate chip cookies…which is funny, because never in my life have i baked anything from scratch. but last night, i made some cookehs! and they’re healthy-ish too! yea, they look kinda gnarly (chunky and scone-like), but they taste pretty damn delicious, if i do say so myself.
what went into these cookies and why they’re a healthy-ish alternative to the Nestle Tollhouse recipe:
alternative wontons made pretty much from scratch. i really can’t do much in the kitchen, but i can manage this.
ah, it speaketh the truth. but i do enjoy eating good food, mkay?
so Kate Winslet, of all people, teamed up with PETA (Perfectly Evil Total Asshats) to voice an anti-foie gras campaign.
for those unfamiliar with foie gras, it is a well-known French delicacy made of duck or goose liver that has been fattened up through a procedure in which the animal is fed via a feeding tube placed down its throat, directly to the stomach. this kind of force-feeding may seem cruel and inhumane—and it would be for organisms with a human-like gastroesophageal system and gag reflex—but fowl do not possess comparable systems and the procedure is not distressing or torturous for the animal. while it’s natural to anthopomorphize, people need to be informed of this important distinction.
don’t believe me?—let Anthony Bourdain show you:
just watched the first two episodes of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution and it’s nice to see someone trying to make America healthier. also, i remember school lunches…which is why i’m thankful my dad used to make me sandwiches everyday up until high school.
i was shopping for my weekly fix of Hot Cheetos con Limon the other day, but for some reason, the store ran out of my snack of choice. sitting in its place in the chips aisle was Cheetos Wild Habaneros. despite the presence of the lime on the bag, i was wary of buying it. ever since i tried the abomination that is Cheddar Jalapenos Cheetos, i’ve been dubious of new Hot Cheetos flavors. but i had no choice; i needed a HC fix, badly.
so i bought a bag, and to my surprise, Wild Habaneros is fantastic. it’s a different type of hot (and i can’t say whether it’s hotter or less hot because my tolerance level for spicy foods is really high and these things don’t even register for me anymore), but one that’s definitely enjoyable and with a hint of BBQ flavor thrown in. i also like that this new flavor doesn’t stain my fingers as much as the nuclear red Cheetos do. yum!
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