gay goy gourmet

assiette de fromages

2012-01-14T15:27:00.000-06:00

Dorset Consider Bardwell Farm, VT, US washed rind raw cow

Equinox Consider Bardwell Farm, VT, US extra-aged goat

Pawlet Consider Bardwell Farm, VT, US raw cow tomme

Petit Basque Pais Vasco, ES mild raw sheep

Caveman Blue Rogue, OR, US strong cow blue

Smokey Blue Rogue, OR, US smoked cow blue

Cabrales Asturias, ES cow/goat/sheep, spicy blue

Monte Enebro Avila, ES pasteurized goat, P. roquefortii

Gouda, Pittig 4y NL pasteurized cow

Dorset	Consider Bardwell Farm, VT, US	washed rind raw cow
Equinox	Consider Bardwell Farm, VT, US	extra-aged goat
Pawlet	Consider Bardwell Farm, VT, US	raw cow tomme
Petit Basque	Pais Vasco, ES	mild raw sheep
Caveman Blue	Rogue, OR, US	strong cow blue
Smokey Blue	Rogue, OR, US	smoked cow blue
Cabrales	Asturias, ES	cow/goat/sheep, spicy blue
Monte Enebro	Avila, ES	pasteurized goat, P. roquefortii
Gouda, Pittig 4y	NL	pasteurized cow

2011-12-11T15:57:00.001-06:00

stir fried tofu, bok choy, tatsoi
indian kohlrabi, yogurt rice or kala masala rice
palak paneer
butternut risotto, salad

this week

2011-11-13T22:09:00.001-06:00

I have bought more at the market last week and this week than I managed to eat. In addition to being unusually busy, I failed to have a good plan, so back to menu-making:

cauliflower and spinach with black pepper coconut milk sauce
pad see ew with tofu and mushrooms
mexican fava bean salad, probably in tortillas, probably guacamole
chile lemongrass rice, red curry zucchini and tofu

upcoming food

2011-10-07T14:33:00.000-05:00

miao pork with chiles and corn
ﬁsh-fragrant eggplant
fragrant thai curry ground chicken and wax beans
panch phoron potato and spinach; whole wheat couscous
smoked cheddar macaroni and cheese; salad
garlic, cheddar, stone ruination ipa soup (um, half recipe, 2lb of cheese wtf); pretzels

septembery greenmarket

2011-09-16T15:22:00.001-05:00

september greenmarket, a photo by gay.goy.gourmet on Flickr.

gai pad grapow, jasmine rice
cayenne-spiked cauliflower with onion-tomato sauce; rice with peas
pesto and whole wheat pasta
eggplant curry with kala/goda masala and tomato; rice with almonds and fresh mint
polenta with rogue oregonzola; salad
macaroni and cheese with andouille and Beecher’s cheddar from Seattle; roasted brussels sprouts

oh, and I made a challah.

tasty market things!

2011-09-09T21:30:00.001-05:00

focaccia with tomatoes and garlic; salad with red leaf lettuce, basil, and anchovies
linguine with tomatoes, garlic, basil, and anchovies
zucchini and tomato stewed with saffron and basil, served with couscous
spicy-tart bell peppers and peas, yogurt rice

some vicki produce!

2011-08-18T16:21:00.000-05:00

lentils with roasted beets
kohlrabi with bacon
tofu with brown sauce, celery, and water chestnuts
bengali summer squash (gorgeous huge pattypans) with tomato, mustard oil, and panch phoron
thai eggplant salad

A few days of tasty things before heading to Chicago next thursday

2011-08-05T12:47:00.001-05:00

some kind of moong dal with tomato, and some flaky parathas
thai eggplant salad or perhaps eggplant biryani, maybe both
pad prik khing (the canned kind, though I should make the paste again soon)
pretzel rolls and salad (mainly to show up Andrew’s pretzel bread)
Maybe pesto. I bought a giant bunch of basil for $3 today, with enough root attached that I planted it. If it seems like it is dying int he next couple of days though it will just become pesto.

food

2011-07-22T10:45:00.001-05:00

Red-wine spaghetti with broccoli
Pain meunier au romarin (sourdough boule with rosemary, 15% rye, 15% wholewheat); salad
Quiche with ricotta and zucchini
Something Indian with eggplant and curry leaves
Red lentils with pan-roasted green pepper; mooli chapatis

indian grocery restock

2011-07-06T10:11:00.002-05:00

well, I’ve been through 20lb of basmati since moving here in September (not to mention the almost-empty jasmine and the various smaller varieties of rice and other grains). I guess that is a milestone of some sort. I had been putting off making several dishes that I felt really did require fresh curry leaves, and I was ﬁnally so frustrated at this situation that I had to go to Jackson Heights last night to ﬁx it. So the next few days are all Indian.

palghat spinach (with amaranth/waterspinach/calaloo from the greenmarket)
corn with cumin, curry leaves, and chiles
coconut ivy gourd with curry leaves
mooli parathas (pictured here)
kheema mutter
pigeon peas sambhar with okra, shallots, tamarind

for this week

2011-06-22T14:56:00.004-05:00

I got back from Dublin and restocked on some basic things (coffee, store milk and yogurt) since there’s no market until thursday and I like the friday one best anyway.

tofu and snow peas, garlic-oystersauce
moong nu dal, onion-spinach rice with ghee
tea and ginger chickpeas, puréed into hummus
asparagus and baby potato salad with hard-cooked eggs and garlic scapes; sourdough roll from buon pane
blue cheese polenta — westside still has rogue creamery stuff for the insane price of $8/lb! not to be missed. I bought some caveman, but would probably use oregonzola for this.
For Sunday
- zaletti
- onion focaccia
- stuffed hard-cooked eggs?
- oaxacan charred-garlic chipotle salsa
- umbrella cookies filled with some stuff
- …

peas!

2011-06-05T10:31:00.001-05:00

sand shark with chile basil garlic sauce, lemongrass coconut rice
tacos of zucchini and frijoles de olla
patatas en salsa verde with fresh peas
calzones with mozzarella and some kind of salami, maybe some bolognese, for the High Line Section 2 opening with Brian
turnip korma, yogurt rice

a pile of vicki vegetables

2011-05-23T14:43:00.004-05:00

Scott was here for the weekend and brought me a wondrous supply of vegetables from our Chicago CSA farmer Vicki.

asparagus and tofu thai red curry
kale pineapple peanut stew; couscous
baked asparagus cream sauce pasta with leftover cheeses
omelette with arugula and rogue caveman blue
patatas en salsa verde, unmade from last week; I had lime flavored rice with toasted chana instead
turnip korma and rotis/parathas

springy things

2011-05-17T11:26:00.003-05:00

salad with strawberries, radishes, eggs, and green garlic balsamic vinaigrette
pasta with green garlic pesto
pea shoots with tofu and dried shrimp (made)
eggplant salad
patatas en salsa verde

this week

2011-05-09T16:50:00.001-05:00

spinach with chiles and coconut, or toasted moong dal with spinach, rotis
dan dan noodles with ground beef and half a tofu
zucchini and havarti cream sauce over couscous with sun dried tomato
potato+sweet potato with panch phoron, coconut milk, spinach

what I'm eating this week

2011-05-02T16:22:00.001-05:00

salad with roasted beet, havarti, egg, radish; petite boule au levain
squid salad, lemongrass coconut rice
gongura dal with radish greens in addition to the sorrel (gongura)
Mint pesto potatoes with green beans
liver curry, plain rice with peas, small salad
dan dan noodles again. I had not realized how easy they were.

quick iphone location data

2011-04-21T13:00:00.010-05:00

I threw together some code to look at my iphone location data. There are a couple strange features to the data, and I'm eager to get my hands on a friend’s iphone4 data to see if it is the same. Timestamps are often the same — I’ll have 350 entries on some days, but only 7 or max 10 unique timestamps. On the other hand, location points themselves are pretty good.

Yup. NYC, Chicago, and I was in DC around xmas.

There are a couple wild points in NJ, and perhaps the ocean, making the bounding box too large here.

This is a couple weeks ago when I was out in Elmhurst, Queens, for the Thai Songkran festival. See my pictures (with amod gps logger geotags) here!

I flew into Chicago on New Year’s Eve. But, no points are stored from the rest of the day, only the train ride in, from O’hare apparently.

And last time I was in chicago, on one day I only went to the Maxwell Street Market for mexican food, and mostly hung out at home. Which is somewhere not far from that cloud of points.

Here’s the code.

library(RgoogleMaps)
library(RSQLite)
dbh <- dbConnect("SQLite", "~/Consolidated.db")
Loc <- dbReadTable(dbh, "CellLocation")
dbDisconnect(dbh)
Loc$time <- as.POSIXct(Loc$Timestamp,
                       origin=as.Date("2001-01-01"))
Loc$date <- as.Date(Loc$time)
Loc <- subset(Loc, Latitude != 0)

## Focus on a couple a specific days
Days <- list(
             ## whole thing
             all=Loc
             ## last sunday, park, soho
             Sunday <- Loc[Loc$date == as.Date("2011-04-17"),],
             ## songkran
             Songkran <- Loc[Loc$date == as.Date("2011-04-10"),],
             ## NYE
             Nye <- Loc[Loc$date == as.Date("2010-12-31"),],
             ## Maxwell
             Maxwell <- Loc[Loc$date == as.Date("2011-04-04"),],
             )



lapply(Days, function(Df) {
  png(file=paste(paste(range(Df$Latitude),collapse=""),
        ".png",collapse="",sep=""),
      640,640)
  bb <- qbbox(lat=range(Df$Latitude),
              lon=range(Df$Longitude))
  ##m <- c(mean(range(Df$Latitude)), # better for 'all' plot
  ##       mean(range(Df$Longitude)))
  m <- c(median(Df$Latitude),
         median(Df$Longitude))
  
  zoom <- min(MaxZoom(latrange=bb$latR,lonrange=bb$lonR))
  Map <- GetMap.bbox(bb$lonR,
                     bb$latR,
                     center=m,zoom=zoom,
                     maptype="terrain",
                     NEWMAP=TRUE,
                     destfile="tempmap.jpg",
                     RETURNIMAGE=TRUE,
                     GRAYSCALE=TRUE)
  tmp <- PlotOnStaticMap(lat=Df$Latitude, lon=Df$Longitude,
                         cex=.7,pch=20,col="#00aa0065",
                         MyMap=Map, NEWMAP=FALSE)
  dev.off()
})

things to eat

2011-04-07T17:05:00.001-05:00

roasted potato and sweet potato with garlicky yogurt-spinach sauce
roasted squash and parsnips with maple glaze, garlic oil, and olives. Perhaps even better with mushrooms (Sunday market)
variation on dan dan noodles, with ground beef, my chili oil, and some blanched *choy
kale peanut stew, couscous
E(μ) chorizo challah. Yes. Like this, but with an E(μ) egg. Salad.
some manner of rajma, still unmade; spinach-onion rice
south indian liver curry (listed before, unmade)
pasta with tasso and onion cream sauce (actually made a couple days ago)

this week

2011-03-21T15:55:00.002-05:00

pineapple kale peanut stew, quinoa
tofu with garlic sauce and chili oil (not unlike this), brown rice, maybe a couple frozen dumplings
taro with curry leaves and tamarind; coconut rice
salad with blood orange, julienned beets, and pecans (yes, more, I have one more baby beet and one more blood orange)
pain au levain with roasted garlic (got a ton of great german red garlic at greenmarket)
south Indian liver curry
omelette with mahon ($6/lb at westside market? wtf, ok), pan-fried potatoes with tasso

2011-03-09T16:03:00.004-06:00

I neglected to post things recently so this is a mix of made and unmade stuff of late.

sweet and spicy razor clams
pan-fried skate wing with diced sausage, shallot, and pepper (I was going to add smoked paprika but it didn't need it. It was perfect).
sourdough focaccia (BBA poolish focaccia where poolish replaced by 8oz of 100% hydration starter plus 6flour+6water)
sourdough chocolate cake
polenta with broiled turkey sausage, rosemary, and garlic. The coarse white Three Sisters Garden polenta is the real deal. It takes a minimum of an hour and a half to cook and it retains a brilliant corn flavor.
salad with blood orange, julienned beets, and pecans
blood orange olive oil pound cake
black-eyed peas with fenugreek and tomato sauce (methi lobhia)
frittata with salami, potatoes, and red pepper
taro with curry leaves and tamarind; coconut rice
Vanilla parsnip soup

a rather italian week, it seems

2011-02-26T14:20:00.001-06:00

polenta with turkey sausage and caramelized onions
spaghetti alla bolognese
squash apple soup, boule au levain
beet risotto
tortilla de papas y chorizo

tasty things

2011-02-19T18:53:00.004-06:00

ﬁnally found pixian (broad bean) doubanjiang (郫县豆瓣酱) for even better mapo liver & tofu!
pad grapao and grilled eggplant salad yam makreua yao, “attractively smoky… hot, and equally sour and salty” (David Thomson’s Thai Food is full of such descriptions attempting to capture the unique balance of sweet-hot-salty-sour that characterizes each dish.)
pizze: bacon+date+besciamella, merguez+spinach+feta, pear+gorgonzola+honey
kashmiri dum aloo slow-cooked baby potatoes in yogurt-fennel sauce
kale saag paneer, saffron rice
rice (either tossed or maybe full on fried rice) with shanghai bok choy, garlic, and dried shrimp

nextweek

2011-02-03T13:23:00.001-06:00

I’m planning to go stock up on some Indian and Chinese ingredients this weekend. In order to prevent myself from overbuying fresh perishable ingredients, these are the things I plan to make next week with fresh stuff.

tindora with curry leaves and coconut
stir fried baby bok choy with dried shrimp
mapo liver and tofu looks sublime; bought liver at greenmarket today
if they have sorrel, gongura dal

to eat

2011-01-31T21:55:00.001-06:00

dal with scallions
tender potatoes with coriander and fenugreek, yogurt rice

Two things from last week:

turnips with mustard braise; quinoa
squash apple soup and challah

a couple constraints

2011-01-23T09:15:00.002-06:00

I have things tuesday and wednesday to plan around so an unusually ordered list…

sunday: something thai with tasty fresh squid
monday: leftover chorizo potato soup, bread, wine
tuesday: Burns Supper chez Bob (haggis!)
wednesday: something simple after Haiti Noir (NYT) (pasta and frozen tomato sauce?)
thursday or friday: squash apple soup and some kind of bread
friday or thursday: braised turnips with mustard sauce