New Year's food resolutions

the usual ones-eat healthier, exercise. but we also want to stop eating out just for convenience.  so i'm trying to cook out of our existing coffers. this lead to making phyllo kale and feta triangles for dinner the other night. i have no idea why i had phyllo in the freezer, but turns out its easy to work with.

also trying to have food on hand so we arent tempted to order out chinese. so i made 70! meatballs yesterday and froze them, to toss in sauce with pasta. Any other ideas for freezer meals?

Hey Sami, remember how we used to look thru the everyday food magazine every month? Well, I get my magazine in the mail this month along with a note that its the last one ever. They are cancelling the magazine! Boo, hiss.

Here's hoping your Thanksgiving isn't a dark fucking period! Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

Yeast Roll Recipe

These are absolutely phenomenal! You should try this recipe!

 

 Ingredients

2-¼	tsp Fleischmann's Yeast
¼	cup warm water (105°F-110°F)
2	tsp sugar
1	cup milk, just to scalding hot (do not simmer or boil)
⅓	cup sugar
¼	cup butter
1	tsp salt
1	egg, lightly beaten
4½	cup All Purpose flour (dough will be somewhat sticky, but the less you use, the lighter the rolls)
2	T butter, melted, for brushing Directions 1) Dissolve yeast in 1/4 cup warm water. Stir in the 2 tsp of sugar. Let sit for about 5 minutes until mixture foams up. 2) Heat milk in microwave or in small saucepan on stove top. 3) Add sugar, butter, & salt to hot milk and stir until butter is melted. Cool to 105°F-110°F. 4) Pour milk mixture into bowl. 5) Add the yeast mixture & egg and mix together. 6) Knead for 5 minutes, adding extra flour, if needed. 7) Place dough in warm oiled or buttered bowl, turning greased side up. Cover with a clean towel and let rise in warm place until doubled in bulk, about 60-90 minutes. 8) Punch dough down and knead for 5 minutes on lightly floured surface. 9) Divide dough into 16 pieces and shape into round rolls. Place them, not touching, in greased 13×9×2 baking pan. 10) Cover with a clean towel ; let rise in a warm place until doubled in bulk, about 30-45 minutes. 11) Bake at 375°F for 18-20 minutes or until tops are golden brown. 12) Brush tops of rolls with melted butter.

The Fox Celery Bleu Cheese Slaw

Alex ordered a buffalo chicken sandwich for lunch. It came with this amazing slaw on it. It was a basic cole slaw, but with the addition of celery and Bleu cheese crumbles. So good!

Thankskilling 3

I'm pretty sure this is both higher video quality and lower budget than the original. Also, you can follow Turkie on Twitter!

Tinies Babyest Weensiest Littlest Leprechaun

I heard Yeti was doing a concert tonight in Central Park. I wonder if that's still going on. I made some homemade cola in anticipation of the live telecast on Univision.

I make nailpolish now.

Making nail polish is cool.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/IncidentalTwin

I miss everyone!

Are we still going to try watching shows together/concurrently?

Last Resort

i09 really liked Last Resort. It might be something to try out.

best chicken - ever

chicken from the portugeuse restaurant. they were on 'the best thing i ever ate' for this chicken, and it is amazing. it's cooked over charcoal, the skin is amazing.

ethnic

lots of ethnic food this trip. portugeuse in mass, ethiopian today for lunch, vietnamese in niagara falls, and there's a new tapas and latin american place in downtown gahanna (over by where we rode the pedal boats). so glad i can eat again!

Poutine

Getting the runaround from the rental office. May this homemade poutine make it all go away.

Steak Frites

Tonight (thanks to Alex's mom and a buy one get one deal because are soooooo poor) we were able to have steak! I made steak frites! I pan-fried the steak, and deglazed the pan with french herb beef stock (that Sami and I made a few months ago). The fries were fried (of course), and then placed under the broiler to make them extra crispy. 

Hot Cheese

so there is a very regional specialty up here, confined to the working class neighborhood of fall river, mass. only place they have it is in hot dog shops around there. they take some good sharp white cheddar cheese, melt it and stir it up so its nice and gooey. pour it onto a steamed hamburger bun  and top it with chopped onion, yellow mustard and coney sauce. its only 2 bucks and its absolutely delicious! i had 2. its just such a unique and specialized sandwich. gonna make them at home sometime for a snack

White Rice

tonight's dinner was melange of long grain rice, harvested by buddhist monks in the foothills of some mountain. It was topped by a composed butter made from-butter.  yeah, my meals have mostly sucked for the last week, been on an all white diet. but leo did get a lobster roll yesterday from a lobster pound, i had a tiny bite and it was OMG the best lobster roll ever. I'll get him to post pics. Gonna try some real food today, hoping i will be good enough by the end of the week i can get homemade ice cream or fried clams. I am so hungry!!!!!

Bourbon Basil Peach Pork Chops with Celery and Swiss Cheese Risotto

Tonight, I went out on a limb to make something sorta fancy. I got to flambe peaches! It was awesome!

Recipe: (from Serious Eats)

Ingredients

• 4 thick-cut pork chops (approximately 1 1/2-inches thick)
• Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
• 2 tablespoons canola oil
• 2 tablespoon butter
• 2 peaches, pits removed, each cut into 8 wedges
• Sugar to taste (optional)
• 2 tablespoons bourbon (such as Maker's Mark)
• 16 fresh basil leaves

Procedures

1. 1
   Adjust oven rack to center position and preheat oven to 400°F. Season the pork chops with salt and pepper on both sides. Heat oil in a 12-inch skillet over medium high heat until shimmering. Add the chops and cook until browned on both sides, three to four minutes per side. Remove from heat and transfer chops to a large plate. Set aside. Discard excess grease from skillet.
2. 2
   Add the butter to the skillet and heat over medium heat until butter is melted. Add the peach wedges, tossing to coat them in the melted butter. Cook, stirring often with a wooden spoon, until the peaches are warm and soft, 1 to 3 minutes depending on ripeness of peaches. If peaches are very under-ripe, add sugar to taste.
3. 3
   Remove skillet from heat and add bourbon. Light a long match and carefully wave it by the skillet to ingnite the whiskey. Allow flame to die naturally, then use a wooden spoon to scrape up any browned bits from bottom of pan. Season sauce to taste with salt, black pepper, and sugar.
4. 4
   Add the pork chops back to the skillet and top each with four basil leaves. Position the peaches on top of the chops. Transfer the skillet to the oven, and cook until chops achieve desired doneness, about 4 minutes for medium. Carefully remove the pan and divide the chops and peaches between four plates. Spoon some of the drippings from the pan on top of the meat and serve.

I couldn't find any fresh basil, so I used the minced tube basil they sell in the refrigerated produce section. It worked beautifully.

The combination was just amazing! The sweet/sour peaches, the botanical quality of the basil, just phenomenal. Absolutely the best thing I've made in some time!

Also, I went to get the recipe to post here, and when I started to type the name into google, I got this:

Thought that was amusing.

I have returned to internetland!

...and am immediately buried under all the stuff that required an internetland and was quietly piling up while I got chewed up by midgies and Ninja cried for days.

::facepalm::

This blog is really the Roy Orbison of Official Yeti Rabbitt and the Vampire Duckmen Fan Club fan club blogs.

Pterodactyl Porn

I literally saw an animated gif of pterodactyl porn on Tumblr tonight. I will not be posting it here, for obvious horror.

oh the memories

New Sex Position

it's called the purple headed beast of the apocalypse

Moving tomorrow! It's so soon! And it feels weird to be done packing.

Garlic-Cheddar Biscuits

We had spaghetti tonight. More importantly, we made garlic-cheddar biscuits (Cheddar Bay Biscuits) on the side. They are SO easy to make and so good!

Recipe:

Ingredients:
Biscuits
2 1/2 cups Bisquick
4 tbs cold butter
1 cup grated Cheddar
3/4 cup of cold milk
1/4 tsp garlic powder (we used 1/8 tsp of garlic salt instead)

Topping
2 tbs melted butter
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/4 tsp dried parsley
pinch of salt

Instructions:
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
2. Combine Bisquick and cold butter in a bowl with a fork or two knifes. Add cheese, milk, and garlic.
3. Drop onto a cookie sheet and bake for 15 minutes.
4. When biscuits are done, spoon on melted butter mixture and sprinkle with parsley.

Schmidt's!

 you obviously saw the photos on facebook, but we just went to schmidt's. it was great as always, actually the german potato salad was even better than i remembered. i think it was the best ive ever had. maybe someday we will all be up here at the same time! sausage for all (she was heard to say)

The Dark Knight Rises

Sami and I went to see it last night. Let us know when you guys have seen it so we can talk about it.

CHEESE

went to trader joe's and got some great stuff you cheesehounds would approve of. english cheddar with wholegrain mustard and ale. the best part is the crunchy little mustard seeds embedded in the cheese

Name Change

In lieu of recent events, and the fact the fan club is far cooler than the band ever was, this blog has been re-christened "The Official Fan Club of the Yeti Rabbitt & the Vampire Duckmen Fan Club."

Deep Dish Pizza

Tonight was deep dish pizza night. We made it mostly with the things we had around the house: Pepperoni, italian sausage, mushrooms, roasted garlic, fresh tomatoes, and TONS of cheese. It was really good.

well, we were with people we hadnt seen in a while, so i didnt want to take pics at our restaurant, but had a great dinner last night. I had a nice salad with roasted pears on it and a huge piece of grilled smoked salmon, perhaps the best smoked salmon i've had. and leo had lake superior whitefish, which is very mild but yummy when parmesan crusted-but what isn't? tonight ends our run of work paying for meals, so we'll see how it goes from here.

Baja Fish Tacos

Tonight, we made Baja Fish Tacos (breaded, baked tilapia with cabbage and homemade baja sauce) and Mexican-style Fried Rice. Delicious!

Did you know...

Claudia Christian wrote a Bab5 biography? I know nothing about it but that it exists.

And you thought Beach blvd was depressing-I'm driving around lansing michigan, man it is empty and scary. is it a dodgy sign when you turn off mlk blvd onto malcolm x street? on the other hand, i had a great cheap chorizo potato and egg burrito. 4 bucks, weighs as much as a cat

I am the world's preeminent muskrat

Shepherd's Pie

We made shepherd's pie for dinner tonight:

It wasn't as beefy as the last time we all made it together. It could have used a little marmite. Overall it was pretty awesome, though, since it was, you know, shepherd's pie.

When we went to buy cheese, Cracker Barrel was on sale 2/$5, so we got that brand. They had a special kind I've never seen there, "Aged Reserve."

It was super sharp AND super creamy. The flavor came through strongly, even after it was melted on all those mashed potatoes. Highly recommended! 

Bad News, Yeti-Heads

The litigation is at an end. While we retain the rights to call the Fan Club the Official Yeti Rabbitt & the Vampire Duckmen Fan Club, we have lost the rights to the name Yeti Rabbitt & the Vampire Duckmen. The court found in favor of a contingency of former Duckmen, along with Marilyn McCoo, to whom I sold the sole rights to all of our songs in 1986 (I used the money to invest in an ill-fated sock garter factory in what was once Yugoslavia). They now own the rights to tour under the name Yeti Rabbitt & the Vampire Duckmen. It's a dark fucking period, Yeti-heads.

Please put suggestions for new band names in the comments section.

when

when is the next album out? I'm assuming it will only be released on 8-track, keeping with tradition.

is this thing on?

Checking in!

Hello from sunny loveseat in beautiful downstairs!

Testing 1

I sent out invites. Check your emails, log in, and post a test post. -H

Greetings!

I hope to see all you Yeti-Heads in October at ConConInConConFon 012, at the beautiful Route 70 Super 8 Confrencence and Bingo Hall on the outskirts of Louisville!