tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85617812129587293922012-01-30T23:52:58.682-05:00From Cooking, to Eating, to Travling to Motorcycles...and everything in betweenRob Timkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07338469461531711957noreply@blogger.comBlogger245125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8561781212958729392.post-24890916653291770522010-12-18T17:47:00.002-05:002010-12-18T17:47:51.247-05:002010-12-18T17:47:51.247-05:00

to http://blogtimko.blogspot.com

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One of the reasons haven't been updating much is the iPhones unfriendliness to quickly snap out a picture and submit a blog entry (which, I've been doing a lot of via facebook) I'm thinking about moving to wordpress...any thoughts? suggestions? iphone apps?

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I've been meaning to write a few posts about this subject for a while, but now just getting around to it. First, let me disclaim: I am a fashion nightmare, a style idiot, and a pop-culture moron. I make no claims that I'm hip on anything fashion related. I also don't really even need to dress well for work like a lot of folks who work in the finance/corporate world. That said, I feel there are

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Stage Left had a cocktail party/class, wine tasting, and pig roast at Bakers farm in East Brunswick. Great time. Go here for all the picturesHere are some highlights...Bloodless Mary I got the cheek...best part. intense Bocce game..Fresh picked tomatosAnd an awesome Irish band...

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It doesn't surprise me, yet I don't really understand it. It does bother me enough to warrant a blog post.... WHY can you go to any 'chain' establishment and it be busy, yet next door, better quality and better service can be had, yet it is empty? Case in point (a few of them): Where I live there are 2 'chain' Italian restaurants...both horribly horrendous...yet, there is a line out the door

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I ate a peanut butter and jelly sandwich post run today...a little while later, I was a still hungry. It seems over the long weekend we were away, our (2) tomato plants have since departed us. They left about 10 tomato though, so I wanted to get rid of them. (geez, that sounds like I'm aborting them) I grabbed some basil from the pot, a can of cannellini beans, tomatoes, balsamic vinegar, and

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For a few reasons, I had to swap frames on my panhead... It now is looking like this.... It will come back together...slowly but surely. It will give me a chance to fix everything that bothered me about it before.... at least the garage is clean now...

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Everyone has them on their menu nowadays...it's usually listed as 'Kobe Beef Sliders' and...if you're going to grind up perfectly good Waygu beef, you're already an asshole. I made mine with twice-ground chuck, about 80% lean.....loaded up some cabbage on them, topped it with a fried quail egg and some Sriracha sauce on a butter toasted bun. I loved the cabbage! It sort of made it like a White

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Wow LONG time no post....sorry everyone, my day job has me pretty busy. We went to Chicago right before Christmas last year and despite it being a blizzard and cold, we absolutely LOVED it. I'd say it's one of the best foodie/culinary city in the US. We also have some friends there so we decided to take a 4 day weekend and call it mini-culinary-getaway, since our new jobs don't let us have an

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Ran about 12 miles today, peanut butter (almond butter actually) for lunch, simple roast chicken for dinner.... 1 chicken, stuff with lemon, garlic, thyme, on a bed of potatoes in a cast iron skillet in a 425-450 oven....sit on couch while it cooks. artichokes in the pressure cooker with.....garlic and lemon.....for 20 minutes. Healthy, (especially the artichokes), easy, and good....this is

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Last night was real bad in NJ....my basement was turning into a lap pool, and we ended up playing 'save the xmas decorations and pile everything high in the soon to be very dark lap-pool basement' all night.' But, we needed to eat. So, we made Cod and Fava beans steamed in white wine (vermouth). The electricity was out for 13 hours or so. Sorry for my poor pictures and presentation....ha. I

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http://www.uprootrestaurant.com/ http://uprootrestaurant.blogspot.com 9 Mount Bethel Road Warren, NJ 07059 info@uprootrestaurant.com A 'foodie friend of ours' (you know who you are ;) haha.), invited us to UpRoot on Tuesday. He had been before and had given a good review.  A few other friends gave it a good review too, so we had pretty high expectations. The space, while in a 'strip mall', is

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Tonight, I was going to cook a recipe for my other project, Cooking my way through Nicholas - The Cookbook. In the grocery store, we started thinking about tomorrows lunch and dinner and since I had made some homemade chili powder, my wife said 'we should just make some chicken taco's tomorrow with your chili powder'. That turned into 'we should make it shredded chicken, and braise it!' (Oh, the

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Made up a batch of chili to prepare for the winter storm. I made it on Saturday with the idea I'd eat it after shoveling out on Sunday. This time I decided to make my own chili powder. I know people knock him, but, I used Alton Browns recipe for chili powder. The ingredients were 3 ancho chiles, stemmed, seeded and sliced 3 cascabel chiles, stemmed, seeded and sliced 3 dried arbol chiles,

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This post is WAAAY late. I thought I had posted it already, but....I didn't. I've been too occupied with our other project.  Some background. My Wife's friend from Montana flew in for our 'wedding' (aka very very small dinner >25 people), as a gift, she gave us a basket of some stuff from the farm she works on. best. gift. ever. She gave us some: Garlic Mint tea Lemon Balm tea Raspberry Jam

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I loaded up on Ibuprofen and Laurie and I went to an awesome brunch today at Catherine Lombardi Restaurant and Cocktail Bar in New Brunswick, NJ. It was for the release of Jill DeGroff's new book Lush Life, Portraits from the Bar.Jill was there signing books and her Husband, King Cocktail Dale DeGroff was there mixing cocktails.Anyone who knows anything about food and cocktails knows that this

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I never finished putting up my Italy trip report. I probably never will. Just too busy to do it justice. If you wanna hear about it, email me, this is an open invite for dinner at my house. I've been suffering from a crazy migraine post running the NYC Marathon (oh yeah, I ran the NYC marathon), and still have it...but needed some comfort food if I wasn't hitting the cocktail bar tonight. So, in

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I'm going to break down our 23 day honeymoon into a lot of parts, by city visited. We started our honeymoon in Venice (after flying into Rome, we trained it up to Venice), then Bologna, then Tuscany (Chianti), Positano, Naples, and finally Rome. For all of my pictures, click here. Click the "read more" below the pics for the post...all about Venice, well at least the first night. Also, I'll have

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I'm procrastinating getting all my pictures/blog posts up about my honeymoon in Italy, but I promise I will. In the meantime...Yesterday, Laurie and I decided to go apple picking.Jonathans it was...(and some Crispens for later...)I still suck at baking/crusts, etc. but the crust was the best crust i've ever made....very very very flaky.

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Was going to make the same dish Helena made...even bought what I needed for it. Then, realized, I spent almost 4 hours doing yard work on Sunday, I was going to grill and eat outside if it killed me. So I scraped some recipes off of Rick Bayless's site. Grilled Lobster with Smoky Garlic MojoGrilled Chicken with Escabeche SauceSome grilled corn with some Mexican cream and Queso Fresco Then,

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Still on my Mexican kick, I made Pollo en Salsa de Fresadilla Y Chipotle from Diana Kennedy's cookbook. Fan-fucking-tastic. Just with whatever leftover corn and flour tortillas I had in the house. Dinner for 2 total+lunch tomorrow for 2....7$ and I that's because I had to buy Mexican bay leafs and a bunch of extra garlic. Tomatillos? 2lbs for 99cents and I needed only 1.5lbs. Limes? 10cents at

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Alright, I'm obsessed with Mexican food/cooking. I'm not good at it...yet, but damnit I'm trying. I think I like it because I like the Mexican grocers in town.I wanted something simple/basic to make last night so whipped up Diana Kennedy's recipe for simple Mexican Rice. Arroz a la Mexicana. Threw some left over grilled chicken in there too. Came out awesome. Could have maybe used some more

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Risotto is usually pretty heavy...but I craved it last week and whipped up a modified recipe I found on the web (I'll find it again, and post a link, I promise) made with summer squash, some fava beans, and fresh ricotta topped with some basil from the garden (by garden, I mean the pot of basil I try to prevent the neighborhood cat from pissing on!) It wasn't much less "heavier" but....it was my

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