Ragout de Lapin Braisé aux Chanterelles

rab3

I so totally don’t speak French, except when it comes to food (hell, if you want to count food words, I speak like 14 languages). I cooked that bunneh that I bought in Centralia. And btw, I never got the motivation to make a roulade. Instead, I made a cop-out ragout. It’s funny, after braising…

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Golden Trumpets

gtr1

Mushroom hunting season is officially upon us, and last weekend we scored about a metric ton of chanterelles. Whee! I also found my first-ever cauliflower mushroom. I had never seen one before, but thought it looked like it would be tasty so I picked it and identified it using a book back at the car.…

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…and we’re back! Part 2: Engrish and Other Funny

japa6

I guess since the last post was ‘Part 1′ I left myself the responsibility of making another one, even though there’s not much else to share except the random Japanese cuteness and Rost in Transrations that provided unlimited entertainment. However, it is Sunday evening, and I have a pot of soup on the stove, so…

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…and we’re back! Part 1: A Gastronomic Survey

jap8

Wow, what a whirlwind. We got home Sunday morning at around 9:00am, and since we’d been tying one on while enduring the 10 hour flight, we saw fit to keep drinking until we fell asleep (oh, don’t look at me like that – it was midnight our time). We slept off and on all day,…

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Oh shit we are in Tokyo!

jap1-1

Scott and I are in Tokyo celebrating our first anniversary. We got here Friday night (Saturday afternoon Tokyo time), and we’ve already managed to see some pretty cool shit. And our lungs are starting to get used to the heavy air. Here’s the morning view from our hotel: We ate at Tsujiki fish market today,…

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Paper Chef 25

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Wow, I am so excited to enter the world of Paper Chef! (link at Tomatilla! on my sidebar). This friendly little competition among food bloggers is just the type of thing to get me through the busy harvest season and the damp winter that follows. This is how it (usually) works: once a month on…

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