[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foqH-TL1gH4] Yes, little buddy. Yes I do. FIRE THE CONTEXT CANNON! Right then, Invader Zim is a gleeful cartoon series about a profoundly incompetent member of a race of professional alien invaders, the immensely defective robot he works with and the planet he continually fails to invade. This one. The robot is Gir, who …
No thumbs were harmed in the making of this dinner. Also the squash still isn’t done.
Welcome back to Al Dente and back, back across the country to my previous kitchen. Cast your minds baaaaaaaack. (I went to see a movie in 4DX yesterday. A flashback sequence would, in that format, be represented by the seats wobbling, compressed air fired at you from every angle, bubbles and water being squirted at …
Al Dente: Hunter Chicken is!Hunter Chicken IN!The Wages of DIN(ner)!
Spring has sprung, summer is in the city and the back of my neck is indeed both dirty and gritty. Thankfully I wash my neck before cooking. Not because I cook WITH my neck, that would be weird, but rather because I’m a firm believer in not smearing dirt and grit all over my food. …
Al Dente: Chicken Goulash with Polenta and Cottage Cheese Dumplings
Let’s talk about Frittata. Specifically, let’s talk about what it all too quickly has turned into in my past, something my mother likes to call ‘egg rag’. Egg rag is sometimes not quite an omelet, sometimes not quite scrambled eggs and very, very occasionally, not quite pancakes. I have perpetrated egg rag on the world …
So it turns out I’m good at chicken. I have chicken skills. There is great chicken power within me. I know chicken fu. That sensation you’re feeling is called the chickening. There’s a war going on out there old friend, and it’s not about who controls the information, it’s about who controls the chick- You …
The most expensive meal I’ve ever eaten was Dim Sum. It was at Harrod’s, in London, in December 2011. Marguerite and I went there because when you go to London for the first time, Harrod’s is a pretty good idea and like so many other people, we fell victim to the building’s insidious design. You …