I love Thai food but I must admit that I have been gazing longingly at recipes for lemon zucchini muffins and oatmeal yoghurt pancakes.

The other day, I was craving cheese.

Tasty, tasty appetizer recipes in the NYT last week.

Here is a collection of party foods that are as easy to eat as they are to make. Each can be produced in 20 minutes or less. Many can be served at room temperature. And none require a plate. (Few people can juggle plate, wineglass and fork successfully, let alone gracefully.)

Most of these recipes are beyond minimalist: they never do in two steps what can be done in one, and they need no embellishment.

Seriously, there is a whole cluster of at least half a dozen different things, each wrapped in bacon.

I really want Sushil to give me Nepalese cooking lessons because he makes some tasty-looking dumplings. I definitely feel him about the fattier, more organ-inclusive “back home” meat being better.

Mike writes in loving detail about our brunch at the Slanted Door in San Francisco’s Ferry Building. God, that was, like, the Platonic Form of pork chop.

Wired online has a gallery of weird foods, and I’ve eaten 4 out of 10 of them (durian, haggis, reindeer, and silkwork pupae), though none of those in the canned form that they photographed for the slideshow. Oddly delightful little photo essay, really. It makes me think this bacon chocolate bar might not be soooo entirely crazy. I mean, we all like the salty-sweet thing, right?

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, once said "If it has four legs and is not a chair, has wings and is not an aeroplane, or swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it." He has a reputation for making offensive statments, though that one, far from overstating a stereotype, is actually a bit limiting. The Cantonese themselves claim that "Any animal whose back faces the sky can be eaten." (thanks, Wikipedia.)

The intrepid authors at Deep End Dining test that claim. And then they write about it beautifully.

rails del.li

brand new online sandwich database / social networking application. the database is very small at the moment, but i couldn't resist creating an account after seeing the rss & tag support.

I think there should be more food related merch. I have been meaning to post this for a while...
food earrings

My friend Bernadette has a great food blog that I don't read often enough: Kitchen

In it she posts that the Naked Chef has a blog.

i've found a couple great recipes on this website so i thought this should be my first post:

recipe.com

and i'll add it to the links on the side too :)