Tuesday, June 10, 2008

¡Agua Fresca!

It's summer in San Francisco for the next 5 minutes--perfect weather for unheated food! I bring you an easy and refreshing drink, which, were I not feeling slightly under the weather, I would have augmented with a splash of liquor. The inspiration came from a team building event my office had last week… we were supposed to learn Mexican cooking techniques and make a meal for the group, but what actually happened was that the staff there had to take over the cooking when it became clear that we'd become irreversibly distracted by the margaritas and quesadillas they’d given us. The one thing we did succeed on from start to finish was making agua fresca—not a huge accomplishment, as it’s just blended fresh fruit, water, and sugar. Maybe there was some ice, too?

Here at home, all I did was take the pint-ish of strawberries I had in the fridge, add some water and a bit of superfine sugar, blend it up, y aqui! Agua fresca! Seems like it would be delicious with mango, any kind of melon, maybe pineapple? Give it a whirl (wink wink)…

Friday, May 23, 2008

The Return: As Unheated As Can Be

The Poff Coff is back, ladies.

Friday, March 7, 2008

Cooking For The Hell Of It. So There.

I know that we were doing a different theme. But I never made anything for that theme, and neither did anyone else, apparently. And it's been months since anyone has posted so I said SCREW YOU, RULES. And I just cooked something and now I'm posting it, and damn it feels good to be a gangster.

I made Pasta with Butternut Squash and Sage because it sounded good, and also because I got a Cuisinart for Christmas and I hadn't used it yet (mainly because, if I'm being honest, I was vaguely afraid of it), and here was a recipe that called for a food processor.

Report: Success! I put together the scary, razor-sharp chopping machine all by myself...and it worked! And I didn't cut off ANY fingers. In fact, it processed the shit out of those butternut squash cubes! Totally awesome.

I forgot to take pictures of the magical machine in action, though. I'm sort of out of the Poff-Coff loop. But I did realize the next day when I was eating leftovers at work that I should totally report on my results. So I took this lovely picture with my cellphone of the leftovers in action.

Squash rules.