Trendwhore food post v7.6.7.2.

Yep, another installment of my self-aggrandizing food posts.  You are going to sit there and like it !

We officially reached yuppie status – Mo gets the standing mixer for a grad present, and made a killer strawberry shortcake as a result.

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Eggs with parsley and tomato on homemade corbread I made a few weeks ago, and chicken pot pie.  C’s pastry is getting supersolid.

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Nacho scotcho night!!  Me and a few friends had a best nacho competition and finished with an Aberlour scotch into the evening.  My friend Alex did gourmet nachos – pickled onion, plantain, and ground beef baked individually, while I did standard nachos (w bacon) along 5 dips – homemade guac, roasted tomato salsa, black bean and cilantro dip, sour cream, and homemade queso with megaheat.  She probably won.

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Seared/roasted duck breast with lentil puree, caramelized apples and walnuts, greeny veg.  Here’s to using duck fat for everything. Hiyoyoyoy!

GMO’brother.

More Fora, but when every one is really interesting what do you want me to do man?

Michael Pollan (In Defense of Food, Omnivore’s Dilemma) on Monsanto, genetic engineering, and our food.  I think the “pragmatic” people of the right are just as naive as the conspiracy theorists on the left.  No,  I don’t think Monsanto is the most evil red dyed firewhore in the world, but I also don’t want to let them monoculture the entire universe just because they say GMOs can save the world and simultaneously do nothing about it.  As Michael Pollan articulates, they easily could make stronger more resistant crops to help with global food issues, but they just simply don’t do that.  Watchies.