November 06, 2008
Eating and living
Opentable.com is having a "Appetite Stimulus Plan" promotion where a bunch of restaurants in a number of metropolitan areas are doing $24 lunches and $35 dinners. Check it out.
Also, I'm adding a "Lifestyle" section to my blogroll, which will be mostly food blogs with some decor/home sites thrown in. It's more for me than for you, really. Alarming News, while always mostly political because that's what I'm interested in, is really just my personal blog. When I got interested in poker, I bored you all with pokerese until Dawn and I spun our poker love off into another blog, I Had Outs. I don't see something similar happening with food/home, though, (like, I don't see myself ever having a food blog) so I needed an area of the blogroll where I could link all the recipe and review sites I visit all the time for my easy convenience.
Posted by Karol at November 6, 2008 01:56 PM | TrackBackTechnorati Tags: Open+Table Food+blogs Home+blogs
um I totally see you having a food blog, that is basically what your flickr is!
Posted by: Steff at November 6, 2008 05:22 PMHaha, yeah but I cook almost entirely through recipes. It's like when I took piano for 15 years (seriously) and could only play when I was reading music. I can learn but don't feel like I have a talent in these things.
Posted by: Karol at November 6, 2008 07:20 PMDon't underestimate the ability to follow recipes and come out with the desired result, it is something that eludes my own more experimental style and I often have disastrous results!
Posted by: Steff at November 7, 2008 03:10 AMA good idea. It is right that your blog reflect this increasing interest on your part.
I follow recipes from book, but then try out slight variations to suit my (and the peoplefor whom I am cookings) taste. My vegetarian, mormon and coeliac friends and relations are quick to (constructively) suggest and criticise these attempts. If you learned to drive (you have mentioned that you do drive), and it is a conditioned reflex (as with most people), you will soon find yourself able to cook to a fair (if not a good) standard, and you'll know what goes well with what else.
btw did you ever try Glasvegas? "Daddy's gone" is moving and the scots accent makes it more touching, somehow. I expect to see this as your SOTD in a year or two's time.
