Author: Wendi

Chicken, Main Course

Modern Art

by Wendi6 Comments on Modern Art
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Jean-Michel Basquiat

There’s no picture of this dish because all the Picnik or Photoshop in the world couldn’t turn what I photographed into something pretty. Kind of like how I don’t see the “beauty” in modern art.  If you say it’s there, then I’m sure it is.  But I just don’t understand how splatters and lines and chaos on a canvas can be called a masterpiece.  I look at the Basquiat image above and have no reaction other than confusion.

I think this dish could be a food interpretation of modern art.  It involved a lot of splatters and some chaos and somewhere under all the mushrooms and Marsala is hidden beauty.  It has to be.  You just have to look hard.  Oh, that’s right, I didn’t post a photo. So I’ll let you draw your own picture.  Continue reading “Modern Art” →

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I Heart Bacon But

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Even I don’t think I would part with cold, hard, cash for most of the bacon lovin’ items on Elizabeth Large’s recent Top 10 List on The Baltimore Sun.

Bacon flavored lip balm is an accident waiting to happen y’all.  I hope the company that makes it has a healthy liability policy.

BLT scented candles are just mean.  Unless of course, a real BLT makes an appearance on a plate in front of me.  Otherwise, it’s a big tease.

However, I would totally get down with having bacon delivered to my doorstep every month.  And I imagine the dogs, cats, and other less domestic city critters that run free through my ‘hood wouldn’t mind either.

And I just don’t know what to say about this.  It looks like an accident just waiting to happen.  I don’t think my love of bacon needs to come into the bedroom.

Dessert, Sweets

Food Memories – THE Hot Milk Cake

by Wendi12 Comments on Food Memories – THE Hot Milk Cake

THE Hot Milk Cake

Back in September, I put out a call for folks to send me their food memories and recipes.  I said:

“I’m starting a project for the blog that I’m calling Food Memories and I hope you can help.  I’m looking for recipes that have special meaning to you.  Maybe it’s something your family always had at Christmas or what your mom or dad made as a special treat, just because.  What is the dish that always takes you back to a happy memory? Continue reading “Food Memories – THE Hot Milk Cake” →

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Introducing Flashback Friday

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Flashback Friday
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I’ve been thinking for a while how nice it would be if I had my posts from Exit 51 here at Bon Appetit Hon.  Actually, what I’ve been thinking is how much I wish I would have just been all BAH from the start of my life as a blogger but there’s no changing the past, only moving forward.  So to kick off 2010, I’m introducing Flashback Friday.  Each Friday I will feature a post from Exit 51.  My terminology over there was slightly different so please translate Exit 51 as BAH and SFC as The Mistah.  Without further ado, I give you Flashback Friday! Continue reading “Introducing Flashback Friday” →

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My Favorite Things Winners

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Because Dell and FedEx aren’t going to be able to deliver the replacement for our dead home computer today, I had to move up the selection of the giveaway winners so that I could do it from work.  I didn’t think you’d mind.

Thank you everyone for your comments on my Favorite Things post.  Like many of you, I find the idea of a ginormous Christmas stocking that could actually hold a whopping 6 or 7 quart dutch oven to be pretty amusing.  If there are any engineers out there who can reverse engineer some dimensions based on the specs of a 6 quart pot, I’d love to see how big that stocking would have to be.

Random.org identified comment #6 and #10 as our winners:

Shutterboo said, “I’ve always wanted a microplane but I never think about it when I’m at the store. It’s when I’m up to my elbows in butter or sausage or flour and I think to myself “Dumbass. Buy it next time you see it.”

Ikkinlala said, “I’m not sure whether Canadians may enter your giveaway, but I wanted to respond anyway: even if Santa with his holiday magic could manage to fit that Le Creuset into your stocking, I’m laughing at the mental image of you trying to remove it on Christmas morning.”

I hope your holidays have been merry and bright and I look forward to sharing all that 2010 has to cook up here at BAH with you.

Dessert, Sweets

On Hold

by Wendi5 Comments on On Hold

Mario Batali TM

Most people leave out cookies for Santa.  I thought that maybe he’d enjoy something different when he visited the BAH house.  So I decided to make a quick chocolate cake for Santa to pick at on Christmas Eve and The Mistah and I to finish off Christmas Day. A few days before Christmas Eve, I pulled out a cake recipe I’d seen on Not Without Salt and got working.  The plan was to bake the cake, wrap the layers in plastic, and hold them in the freezer for two days until I was ready to frost on Christmas Eve.

And then the postman delivered not one, but two cakes to our front door. Continue reading “On Hold” →

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You’re My Obsession

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Over the Christmas holiday, BAH unplugged and went off the grid for a while.  There was no browsing or blogging or chatting.  It was an email free zone.  And it was lovely.  Instead of scrolling through web pages, I turned pages of books.  Instead of jumping around the internet, I moved game pieces around a board.  Instead of virtual chatting, I saw people in person.  And I spent a considerable amount of time trying to learn to speak a new language.  All because of my new obsession up there. Continue reading “You’re My Obsession” →

Fish, Main Course

Foolproof

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Maple Glazed Salmon with Asian Slaw

I don’t utter that phrase often.  It’s  like a loaded gun waiting to go off.  I might think something is foolproof but since I’m not in the kitchen with you, I can’t know if ingredients get substituted or the recipe is somehow changed.   And I don’t want to be responsible for kitchen drama.  I cause enough of it at my own house.  That’s why I try and use words like “nearly” or “darn near” anywhere close to the phrase foolproof.  But sometimes I slip up. Continue reading “Foolproof” →