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British Film Institute Film Festival - Dirk Rees

Nice ones... see www.dirkrees.com for more...

no longer just what i'm cooking...

i've decided to start blogging about everything. my jobs, my pictures, other peoples pictures, pictures i take that don't belong in my portfolio, everything.

let's start with "form grows rampant part one" by the threshold houseboys choir.



one of the prettiest songs i've heard recently. Peter Chistopherson, formerly of Coil.

catching up...

shredded pork, spicy coleslaw, corn, mashed potatoes, collards with double garlic...
trout for steffi

crispy tacos, fresh salsa cruda, beef picadillo...

arctic char in indian spices, collards with double garlic again, french lentils...

RIP pestle

time to get a new mortar and pestle. great. friday night and my friend tim sutton's coming over for dinner and wants shrimp and wants indian food. everything here is from 1,000 indian recipes except the collard greens are from world vegetarian. the menu is kerala shrimp chile-fry, yellow mung beans with fresh curry leaves, basmati rice with whole spices, and collard greens with asafetida.

starts with making the ginger garlis paste...equal amounts ginger and garlic smashed into a paste. observe broken pestle. dammit. happened about halfway through.

shrimps! ready to peel and devein.

shrimps now marinating in gingergarlic paste, curry leaves, crushed red pepper flakes, turmeric and coriander. finished this about 1pm and let them sit in the fridge the rest of the day.

sink full of greens...

rinsing the moong dal

slicing chilis...

and then mincing chilis...

then i practically chopped two of my fingers off when the knife slipped on an onion...so no pictures for awhile while i bled all over the entire apartment. seriously...ouch. it was nasty.
blood blood blood.

by the time i regained my senses...the greens are finishing up...

adding tomatoes and green pepper to onion, ginger garlic paste, and chilies etc etc

sizzling tarka, topping for the dal...dried red chilis, curry leaves, mustard seeds, cumin seeds, ground fenugreek, asafoetida, paprika

add the shrimp to the tomatoes, peppers, etc.

add the tarka to the dal and swirl...

and it's all done...eat eat eat eat.

big ass vietnamese salad...

too many burgers this week, time for a salad. here's the recipe (the pictures there look completely different)

starting with palm sugar...add to boiling water...

sunday's watching...

squeezy...

reducing the palm sugar and water...

shrimps are poached, then in the fridge...

finished the nuoc mam...minced garlic, chili garlic sauce, lime juice, and fish sauce...

salad stuff...radicchio, napa cabbage, carrots, red pepper, mint leaves...

everything together...eat it!!!

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summer in april
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lunch at fast and fresh deli, hoyt street...

cecina tostada and two tacos al pastor...

Saturday...prospect park and bbq at chu's

barney...!

picnic in prospect park....saw lots of handstands and a hookah.
fried half chicken from mitchell's soul food with mac and cheese, corn on the cob and corn bread

then grilling at chu's ... spicy shrimp, broccoli rabe, salad and sirloin...

dessert special...

after doing the dishes from the trout and fennel below....
old overholt american rye whiskey neat, a red bartlett pear, and one slice each of sprout creek farm batch 35 from NY and dancing cow bourree from vermont.

panfried trout with fennel braised in vermouth!

fast cheap easy delicious. based on this with some modifications. almost caught up, made this last night!

sliced fennel bulb...

saute in olive oil...not too much stirring, let it brown as much as you can stand it...

after it's all browned up, add the vermouth and plenty of salt, cover, lower the heat. after the fennel's tender and the liquid's all gone add some parsley, season more and turn the heat off...

dredged the trout in cornmeal, frying it in butter...

more frying...!

ready to eat! with mashed potatoes...