This has been a week of bargain shopping and self gratification. It's remarkably difficult for someone with a birthday that butts ass-backwards up against Christmas to truly be selfless this time of year, and my recent spending spree only reinforces this statement. On the 22nd I picked up an 18" John Boos end grain walnut butcher block cutting …
Wüsthof has a relatively new line of knives, called the Classic Ikon line. It looks really familiar. In fact, the more I look at it, the more it looks like a more expensive version of the Victorinox Forged Professional line of solingen knives (which, by the way, I have already raved about because they're excellent European knives at a fantastically …
I haven't had real ramen in a long time. It is refreshing to have noodles that aren't out of a bag. We made this tonight: tender fried pork slices on a salty pork/beef enriched stock, garnished with scallions and julienned carrots. Not pictured are the baozi we made with some leftover char siu pork.
In the last month and a half since I touched this, apparently there was a major religious holiday (Kwanzaa, duh), the Patriots cemented their place in Final Jeopardy history for the next decade, and the doesn't-mean-a-god-damned-thing elections in Iowa and New Hampshire can't decide between six of one or a half dozen of the other. I've got a lot of things …
January 11, 2008 – 12:03 am
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By Ryan
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Posted in culinary, cutlery, shit stirring
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Tagged apartment, comics, kikuichi, knives, late, opinions, rails, random, victorinox
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