http://www.flim.com/artisan/ Made by hand, and it shows. en-us admin@sadpenguin.com 2005-12-15T06:43:10-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.flim.com/artisan/archives/000464.html I made this gingerbread cake, and it was rather good and I'm still working my way through it. I can't believe how much honey and molasses went into it, though. I have been asked to make molasses spice cookies for... 464@http://www.flim.com/artisan/ food i've made 2005-12-15T06:43:10-08:00 http://www.flim.com/artisan/archives/000462.html I started a new batch of sauerkraut today, I don't mind telling you!... 462@http://www.flim.com/artisan/ food i've made 2005-12-06T21:02:00-08:00 http://www.flim.com/artisan/archives/000460.html I have a camera. A dinky but decent Canon Powershot with inadequate memory, but it's a camera. But I am not really much of a photographer, and I have been completely disatisfied with my attempts at photographing food. Does anyone... 460@http://www.flim.com/artisan/ 2005-11-26T23:24:21-08:00 http://www.flim.com/artisan/archives/000459.html Another Thanksgivingish gathering. I was going to make a pumpkin tart, but when I was in the store I saw they had cranberries, and I remembered the apple cranberry pie, and thought it was time to do that again. So... 459@http://www.flim.com/artisan/ food i've made 2005-11-26T23:21:52-08:00 http://www.flim.com/artisan/archives/000458.html Three types of rolls for Thanksgiving. One was a dark Russian rye, the closest thing to pumpernickel that I could realistically make, since I can't seem to find pumpernickel flour in this town. It came out a little sweeter than... 458@http://www.flim.com/artisan/ food i've made 2005-11-24T22:28:36-08:00 http://www.flim.com/artisan/archives/000457.html I made pumpkin bread. The usual quick bread style. It came out more moist than I necessarily wanted it to be, perhaps, but it was edible. Instead of the usual pumpkin spices, I used garam masala, and that worked out... 457@http://www.flim.com/artisan/ food i've made 2005-11-20T13:17:42-08:00 http://www.flim.com/artisan/archives/000455.html Yesterday I made a pizza with potato for a topping (and cheese, and a garlic rosemary olive oil). I steamed the thinly sliced potato and added it on. But I probably should have soaked it a bit first -- it... 455@http://www.flim.com/artisan/ food i've made 2005-11-02T23:12:14-08:00 http://www.flim.com/artisan/archives/000452.html Getting ready for a week away from home (train down to LA for an Oulipo conference) and cooking up all the vegetables I ambitiously bought. Otherwise, you know, they will go bad. The spinach was wilted and fried with a... 452@http://www.flim.com/artisan/ food i've made 2005-10-25T11:21:37-08:00 http://www.flim.com/artisan/archives/000449.html David recommended it, and although I originally had some suspicion about it, he was right, so very right.... 449@http://www.flim.com/artisan/ food i've made 2005-10-23T11:31:49-08:00 http://www.flim.com/artisan/archives/000448.html This is the first time in several months where I didn't wake up to comment spam. So instead, the few minutes a day I'm willing to devote to this blog will be put towards making an entry. Yay! Lately I've... 448@http://www.flim.com/artisan/ food i've made 2005-10-23T11:30:24-08:00 http://www.flim.com/artisan/archives/000447.html All right, per Jaq's suggestion, I have switched comments over to HaloScan. That means all the old comments are gone, but such is life. They're not "really" gone, I have secret access to them from my control pod, so I... 447@http://www.flim.com/artisan/ 2005-10-22T22:34:35-08:00 http://www.flim.com/artisan/archives/000446.html It's not that I haven't been cooking: I have, lots of Indian food mostly. But I am so annoyed by the constant spam that I have grown angry at Movable Type. If anyone has a suggestion that doesn't involve upgrading... 446@http://www.flim.com/artisan/ 2005-10-22T01:41:37-08:00 http://www.flim.com/artisan/archives/000444.html 444@http://www.flim.com/artisan/ food i've made 2005-10-05T18:09:40-08:00 http://www.flim.com/artisan/archives/000443.html For Rosh Hoshanna I made this Ashkenazic honey cake. Except I ran out of honey and had to use corn syrup for half. The cake turned out just OK, and surprisingly enough not as sweet as I thought it would... 443@http://www.flim.com/artisan/ food i've made 2005-10-05T09:13:46-08:00 http://www.flim.com/artisan/archives/000442.html The peppers, sauteed for about 8 minutes, ended up at just the right softness, maintaining some bite while loosing their peppery aggressiveness. The roasted chickpea flour attempted to give them some sort of coating, tried to cling on to the... 442@http://www.flim.com/artisan/ food i've made 2005-10-05T09:10:14-08:00