Arrabbiata base is just garlic, tomato, salt¹ and pepper²
¹ kosher, anchovy
² paprika, cracked black, red flakes, greek pepperocini
Figure 1. arrabbiata base in the bottom of a sauce pan: minced garlic, tomato paste, kosher salt, anchovies, paprika, cracked black pepper, red pepepr flakes, minced greek pepperocini.
Does bill graham have air conditioning? going to the qotsa show tonight and haven’t been there on a hot day before
trip report: if they did it wasn’t up to the day or crowd, it was hot as hell in there
nevertheless, great show
Figure 1. audience photo of Queens of the Stone Age performing at Bill Graham Auditorium, the band is lit by a triangle of pink lights overhead hard to believe, I’m sure, but with a crowd of mostly 40-something couples in black rock t-shirts (yours truly included), the damned bar ran out of IPA before the band even started.
Two nights of clean living, exercising again after a week of office work followed by a weekend house guest, plus a new pillow top on the bed, fell asleep at 9:30, did not wake up until 5:45.
i will learn nothing from this pleasant experience.
Hosting my kid’s birthday party yesterday answering a friend’s question, “so how do you know all of these kids?”
“Well that kid is so and so, they went to pre-school together. And that kid is so and so, they are in TK together. That kid in the red shirt is, ah, jeeze, a friend’s kid who we see all the time but I’m completely blanking on their name"
She says, “Yeah, that’s so and so.”
I say, "right, I forgot.”
Then I realize I’m talking to the kid in the red shirt’s mom.
O/ to whoever left an entire box of http://www.totalgrantsolution.org mugs on the sidewalk by my place today. my first name is Grant so I grabbed two of them. the saul bass lookin’ design and generic company name are perfect
Figure 1. photograph, white corporate coffee mug, company name side “Tekmeca” in red helvetica next to an abstract geometric green and blue logo.Figure 2. photograph, white corporate coffee mug, product name side “TOTAL GRANT SOLUTION” in red helvetica under to an abstract cut-up looking block and line three point star in red, yellow, and blue.
21st book of the year: “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida”, by Shehan Karunatilaka
A friend posted that they’d just read a book that they think might be the best book they’d ever read, and it was this one. 4, 3, 2, 1 was listed for a Booker and this one won the prize? OK, I’ll try it.
I really wanted to like it more than I did, and the second act really flows well, but I had a hard time finishing it, today, finally. It’s right up my alley in lots of ways. v0v
The Seven Moons of Maali AlmeidaColombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler,…Goodreads (opens in a new tab)Figure 1. Link preview of https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57224204-the-seven-moons-of-maali-almeida, "The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida".Figure 2. Paperback cover, as I read it, centered all-caps futura lookin' font w/ thep points all alightly rounded in white over a multicolor acrylic painted face in bold geometric cirles and rings and swoops in vibrant colors.
My kid (5y old this week!) has been obsessed with building stuff out of cardboard after drawing front back top and sides and cutting them out and wanted me to make a transformer yesterday
so i searched for patterns and fell down a papercraft hole, do not recommend
fiddly as shit i had to do all of the assembly myself
I learned to make roux for gumbo from dad’s pal from boot camp, who was from louisiana, and he taught us the patient “stir, stir, stir, heat, stir, but whatever you do, don’t burn!” method.
it stinks to stand over and mind and is apparently a recent trend. like, originally, people just didn’t make roux so dark that it was so much work
but i do like my roux dark, so i start a few hours earlier and bake it at 350F, slight stir every half hour or so, easy mode
Figure 1. a quarter sheet with a cup of oil in it, a cup of all purpose flour and roux spoon standing by, about to be addedmethod and recipe from serious eats, as per, which i use now instead of the old note card i used to dig out.Figure 2. the raw roux, mixed, pale, in a quarter sheet, about to go into the oven, which i had just stirred with my roux spoon.Figure 3. the roux in the quarter sheet in the oven.
stunt dark, labor free (free as in time)
Figure 4. roux, baked 30 minutes, color: peanut butter.Figure 5. roux, baked 60 minutes, color: chocolate.Figure 6. roux, baked 90 minutes, color: darker chocolate.Figure 7. roux, baked 240 minutes, poured and scraped onto on the aromatics, color: dark chocolate.
