Brandon Eats tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-228316 2012-03-05T08:38:00-05:00 Thoughts on food, cooking, and restaurants (local and otherwise). TypePad Cracking the Pie tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c6e7153ef01676361265b970b 2012-03-05T08:38:00-05:00 2012-03-08T14:41:36-05:00 Fuck crack pie. Although I shouldn’t have been surprised, Christine Tosi’s recipe is one of the most time-consuming, odd ingredient-demanding culinary enterprises I’ve embarked upon lately. Probably the most frustrating thing about it is that I knew it would be like this before I began. All you have to do is read the recipe, which is, in fact, three recipes nested within one. brandon I Like Meatloaf tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c6e7153ef01630255ccbd970d 2012-03-03T09:54:41-05:00 2012-03-03T09:54:41-05:00 I haven’t made meatloaf in twenty years, probably. You have to compromise when you’re in a relationship. brandon Sipping the South tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c6e7153ef016301bc530c970d 2012-02-29T13:19:22-05:00 2012-02-29T12:46:31-05:00 I may be from the South, but I never was a bourbon drinker. Actually, I don’t drink a lot of liquor because I’m a relative lightweight when it comes to alcohol. I’m a sipper — a serial sipper, and if I get drunk too fast, then I have to stop drinking long before everyone else does. I will then start to demand to go home because I’ll be getting sleepy and also because why stay out when you could be at home in your pajamas? brandon Lovely Lentils tag:typepad.com,2003:post-9331609 2012-01-22T07:58:00-05:00 2011-02-22T09:48:08-05:00 A repost — I know it's a cheat for someone who hasn't posted for so long, but I am posting over at Broken Eggs, you know. I wrote this so long ago we forgotten all about it, haven't we? At any rate, it's what I'm having for dinner. Never underestimate the ability of a recipe to fail miserably. You can follow the directions, choose your ingredients with care, watch the clock carefully, and still — landfill fodder. Even such a venerable publication as Gourmet gets it wrong sometimes. In the latest issue of Gourmet (which features models instead of food... brandon