Tripe Madrid-Style Recipe Callos a La Madrilena This recipe is adapted from the excellent The Foods and Wines of Spain by Penelope Casas. It is a heart-warming dish that should be cooked for a long time, and eaten on cold, wintry days. Yield : Serves 4 Ingredients 1 lb ox tripe½ cup dry white wine2 ripe tomatoes, peeled and chopped1 pig’s foot, split in half2 parsley sprigs10 peppercorns, lightly crushed2 clovesA few gratings of nutmeg2 bay leaves2 thyme sprigsSalt1 onion, peeled and coarsely chopped8 garlic cloves, peeled2 tbsp olive oil1 onion, finely chopped4 oz chorizo sausage, peeled and sliced3 oz diced, cured ham (prosciutto-style)1 tbsp paprika1 tbsp flour2 dried red chillies, seeded and crumbled1 small bunch of flat-leaf parsley, leaves only Directions Place the tripe in a pot and cover with water. Cover and cook over a very low heat, or in a low oven (275°F, but make sure it comes up to the boil before it goes in the oven), for 2 hours. Carefully lift out the pig’s foot and remove the bones. Notes
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♫ Tony-b Machine ♫ Glass Potato Chips Let's be honest: Potato chips are boring. Every time I wander the chip aisle of the grocery store, there is some supposedly new twist on the potato chip. Classic. Jalapeno. Terra Blue. Vinegar and salt. Why couldn't the potato chip be beautiful? Behold: The Edible Glass Potato Chip This chip is stunning. This is molecular gastronomy brought home. The original recipe was created Hamid Salimian, the chef at Diva at the Met. Enjoy!
Grilled Marinated Scallops with Ginger and Sesame Recipe A friend who spends the winter months dragging for scallops showed up at my door one evening bearing a gift of two gallons of freshly shucked scallops. (One may have been due to the fact that he had overimbibed at a party on a previous night, passed out in the middle of my kitchen floor, and had to be carried home. The gift was appreciated and he was forgiven.) The scallops were gorgeous! Yield : Serves 4 Ingredients ½ cup pineapple juice½ cup soy sauce1 tablespoon grated fresh gingerZest and juice of 1 lime24 large sea scallops3 tablespoons sesame seedsLime wedges, for garnish Directions 1. 2. 3. © 2005 Linda and Martha Greenlaw Church Sign Maker The server is working. I'm sorry for the "server busy" messages; the server is working, but if it gets too busy, it gets overloaded, and so you get that message. There's not much I can do about it right now. Make your own virtual church signs Ever seen those signs in front of churches with the moveable letters? Note: these church signs aren't real, they don't exist in the real world. Make your sign Note: There's also a Church of Scientology sign maker, a Westboro Baptist Church sign maker, and a letterboard maker! Choose the design you want to use (don't worry about the church name/denomination, you can change that): "Classic" designs are still available:
How to Get a Conversation Back on Track The 10 most popular Zen Pencils comics of 2013 Hey everyone, I hope you all had a nice Xmas holiday (if you celebrate it). To see out the year, here are the 10 most popular Zen Pencils comics of 2013. This list is based purely on page hits and traffic. Is your favourite comic here? A fantastic quote always makes my job a lot easier and this Leary quote does a lot of the work for me. A remarkable story that I just had to acknowledge and I was glad to bring attention to Malala to some people who weren’t aware of what happened to her. It was so cool that Chris Hadfield tweeted this comic from space! Another very popular ‘life-advice’ strip. Some people were highly offended that I compared social media users to drug addicts. This comic produced another ‘pinch myself’ moment as not only did John Green like the comic, he even got in touch with me and we had a very pleasant Skype chat. I knew I would adapt Carl Sagan’s most famous quote as soon as I thought of creating Zen Pencils. I’M GOING ON VACATIONWell, that’s it, the best of 2013.
Pizza Margherita Grilled Cheese - Cooking for Keeps Grilled cheese month. It’s a thing. April is also deemed the month of the BLT sandwich, soft pretzels, soy foods (don’t even ask) and a personal favorite – garlic. But for some reason grilled cheese month is the only thing that seems to be shouted from the Internet rooftops. While my waistline couldn’t tolerate 30 whole days of grilled cheese sandwiches, my Facebook feed has been so inundated with pictures of gooey cheese sliding out of crispy, buttered slices of bread, I just had to hop on the bandwagon. And let me tell you friends, the grilled cheese bandwagon is a very, very good place to be. Margherita pizza has been on my mind since Kev and I tried out a “certified Neapolitan” pizza place relatively new to Kansas City last week. But then, I took my first bite, closed my eyes and was immediately transported back to Rome, inhaling my very first classic Margherita pizza; a pizza nearly impossible to find back in the states. Because pizza = love. That’s it. Simplicity at its finest.