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leftover cheese

Miriam — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 15:55:27 +0000

What to do with all the leftover cheese? French onion soup!

Taste testing: Swiss cheese for soufflé

Miriam — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:51:33 +0000

We’ve been making a lot of soufflé lately, as we gear up to lead a workshop. My usual practice as cheese-monger-ee has been pretty sloppy: scrawl “Swiss cheese” on the grocery list, then find myself shuffling from foot to foot in the dairy section, trying to remember if we’d ever come up with a preference….eventually grabbing the cheapest of whatever looked decent. Really, everything there looks decent—I’m too lazy to drive to the Giant Chain Grocers (and besides, they give me ADD-hives) so I shop at the locals, which have really nice cheese.

To put an end to this nonsense, here are the three non-baby, non-mega-dairy Swiss cheeses available at the Willy St. Coöp last week: Emmenthaler (source unknown), Edelweiss Grass-fed Emmenthaler, and Cave-aged Guryère (source unknown).

We tasted the cheeses uncooked, first, then in four soufflés—the fourth was a mix of half Guryère and half Grassy Emmenthaler. Guryère, solo, wins by a mile. Here’s our notes:

Emmenthaler: regular old Swiss cheese; creamy; would be good for melty uses; boring and Panera-like
Grass-fed Emmenthaler: like the other one but with a nice top bite; tasty—with terroir, and funky; has a sharp note that the regular Emmenthaler was missing
Cave-aged Guryère: salty, brown, nutty, toothy, & dry; back wall of funkiness; best—rotten; TOTAL WINNER

Friday night fish fry at Kitchen Table

Miriam — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 16:03:22 +0000

DEAR CO-OP!! Hall of Fame

Miriam — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 15:57:36 +0000

Whut.

Would you guys start a website for all of your personal care items? It is important for sanitation for people to have a culturally competent wholeness soap that doesn’t use any type of inflammation. So what are the emotions behind the ingredients? Thanks.

Package multiple InDesign files together

Miriam — Fri, 04 May 2012 16:07:00 +0000

Well this tip is handy if you’re doing multiple .indd files/renditions for DPS where you need different folios for each resolution you’re servicing. CS6 supposedly will let you keep all of those layouts in one file.

Instagram Filters as Photoshop Actions

Miriam — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:14:12 +0000

That’s pretty cool. I don’t use Instagram but the effects are nice.

wtf expensive homebrew

Miriam — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:16:16 +0000

Personal Brewery Is All-In-One Beer Factory—because brewing was SO HARD before this!

The only step this saves is siphoning the beer from the fermenter into your bottles (or keg, if you’re fancy). Bottling five gallons takes me, oh, about an hour. For only $4500, I’ll get that hour back! Huzzah.

My Favorite Day

Miriam — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 23:57:34 +0000

The jazz is on the stereo, the steak is seasoned, the olives are stuffed with blue cheese, and the gin’s in the freezer.

Why, hello, Friday Night! It’s lovely to see you again.

unclear on the concept

Miriam — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:29:25 +0000

Celebrating St Patrick’s Day with French food and Piña Coladas. Prosit!

And I need you more than want you

Miriam — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 02:24:24 +0000

hello, Wichita! Where is your lineman, and where can I find the souvenir? (Difficulty level: earworms don’t count.)

Did you know?

Miriam — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 19:26:58 +0000

Did you know? Effingham, Illinois real name is “Fuckingham,” but Rand-McNally decide to make their maps “family friendly” in 1953. It’s been reprinted that way ever since! True fact.

JESUS CHRIST, IT’S A VAGINA

Miriam — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:17:24 +0000

So, I just started watching The Boondock Saints after years of prodding from a friend. Not one minute in:

what’s brewing

Miriam — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 23:30:14 +0000

Racked Sven’s Oatmeal stout, and brewing Hammerhead Porter. Long mash!

what’s brewing

Miriam — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 23:26:33 +0000

Racked the Warbler Pale Ale, and brewed the Sven’s Oatmeal Stout.

motherfucking corn

Miriam — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:38:47 +0000

Tell me there aren’t any other ways to incorporate hop puns into my beer names!

what’s brewing

Miriam — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 15:25:58 +0000

Bottled the Rachel-in-Dairyland cream ale, racked the Red Foxx, and brewed another batch of Warbler Pale Ale.

as the tsar always said to me…

Miriam — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 16:46:16 +0000

Making blintzes. Not stingy.

Yay, Saturdays.

Miriam — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 21:10:32 +0000

Brewing Badger Red Foxx Ale as he spins up the funk and acid/jazz on the downloader. Yay, Saturdays.

TWEET: @HomeDepot’s @MarthaStewart Xmas …

Miriam — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 23:02:21 +0000

@HomeDepot’s @MarthaStewart Xmas lights don’t daisychain end-2-end. Porch 1/2 done & no idea where receipt is >.< http://twitpic.com/369akp

dj spoon

Miriam — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 00:26:48 +0000

Dancing in the kitchen to Sly, the Staples Singers, HAIR, and the Sex Pistols.