Dosai

No, that's not a megaphone. It's Tanaz's dosai (dosa)

Giant pizza

This pizza is the size of my chest! It's from Koronets on the upper west side. Kaizad introduced me to this place a few years back.

Connecticut Pizza!

Kobe beef hamburger

...with bacon

Don't worry, I'll have homemade food posts up soon. Just need to purge all my old pictures of food from various trips.

Cumin beef

Mmmmm, cumin beef at some random joint in San Francisco's chinatown

More sushi

Old sushi plate for the same meal as the salmon posted a few days ago.

Fried food fest in Dallas!

This is Bubba's Cooks Country. A pretty famous fried food joint in Dallas, TX.

Fried Okra.

Chicken Fried Steak (yes, that's fried steak)

Jasmine.

Tanaz

Me

Lunch

Meatball parm for lunch today from Papa Perrone's Truck (on 55th btw. Mad+Park). $7.50

S.&D. Oyster Company, Dallas, TX

These are the cheapest oyster's i've ever had. Under 10 bucks for a dozen!

Fried oyster poboy (po'boy). This was very yummy. I love it when Oyster's are fried just right so that the outside is crunchy and the inside is barely cooked. yum!

Southern Hospitality

Tanaz took me to Southern Hospitality for my birthday in 2008. This is probably the biggest rib I've had.

Transplanted sprouts

Took this yesterday

Tomato sprout

This pic was taken on 4/25/09

Chocolate Suffle

I think I made these for valentines day

Mangos

Testing out my mango cutter for the first time.

Testing out my mango cutting skills.

Salmon sushi!

Whats for dinner?

Pupa is for dinner of course!

San Francisco chowder

Went to San Francisco to visit Kaizad and Dixie last year. It was fun.

25 pounds of lamb

This is what 25 pounds of lamb looks like. I got this about 2 months ago, and I believe it has satisfied my craving for lamb.

Salted pig parts

Gosh, I enjoyed this soooooo much.

This last one that i am eating is a rolled pig's head. They take a pig's head, debone it, roll it up, and cure it. It had a very delicate flavor, nothing like cured salamis.

Landmarc meal

Tanaz and I went to Landmarc Restaurant about a month back prior to attending Madama Butterfly, (AKA Madame Butterfly) at the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center. Their lunch menu was surprisingly affordable.

This is my barbarian sized Steak Tartar.... it's usually made so petite at other places!

This is Tanaz's lady sized Grilled Eggplant & Tomato Tartine

Flank steaks grilling

These are couple flank steaks that I grilled a few weekends ago at my sister's. I really miss grilling in the city! This was the best steak I've had so far this year.

Setup for seedling

I'm keeping my setup on the counter for now. Perhaps in 2 weeks, I'll transplant the seedling to its permanent home.

Light timer

This is the light timer i am using to turn the light on and off daily. I get a geol deal of natural sunlight in my apt., but only direct for a couple short hours. for ideal growth my tomato plant needs about 12-14 hours of light.

Planted seeds

I planted my seeds on Thursday, the 16th. I planted 4. I'll only grow the strongest of them, and dispose of the feeble.

They are in a material called rockwool. It's made of rock that is melted and spun into this fiberous inert mass. It hold water VERY well... so much so that after watering them and placing into the tupperware, I was able to leave town for 4 days.

The odd violet'ish light you see is from my LED grow lamp. I'll tell you more about that later

The seeds are here!

My seeds arrived!! stay tuned!

Nyagous tomatos

I am going to grow a rare Russian tomato (with Japanese ancestry). It is called Nyagous, and is considered a black tomato... yeh, it doesn't ripen with the typical red color your are used to. As matter of fact, it will probably look rotten to the untrained eye, but should taste pretty amazing when its compared to your grocery store tomatos.
I just bought the seeds online, and hope to germinate them as soon as they arrive.
My special indoor LED grow lights are on the way.

Homemade Hydroponics trial to begin

Two months ago I did some research on hydroponics and determined it’s expensive and too complicated to experiment with in my apartment. Two weeks ago, I decided I will settle for tomato plant to be grown in dirt soil within my apartment. Two days ago, I decided that using dirt was too effortless! Besides, I couldn’t resist the faster growth, better yield and other advantages of hydroponics. Growing a plant in soil is relatively easy, but hydroponics will challenge my mind and utilize that part of my brain that requires constant scientific stimulation.

For those of you unfamiliar with this area of plant cultivation, Hydroponics is a method of growing plants without soil. Contrary to what I was taught 15 years ago, plants need much more than sunlight, water and carbon dioxide. And contrary to what I taught in 11 years ago in college biology, plants need much more than nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. Soil provides plants with various trace elements such as iron, manganese, copper zinc, boron, chlorine, nickel and calcium. All of these needs and more need to be accommodated when growing plants in a medium other than soil, and especially so if I hope to get some fruit. Instead of soil, the plants are held in some sort of inert medium that will support the plant and/or root structure.

It’s too expensive to buy a pre-built hydroponics system so I decided to build my own. There’s all sorts of hydroponics systems: the plant sits in water, water is raised and lowed, the roots of the plant are misted, drip watering, etc… I think my unit will be a mixture of a few of these. What I know so far is that I plan to grow a tomato plant, and need to keep the system compact as to not take up much room in my small apartment. Last night, I visited Home Depot to begin looking for parts, in which I was not successful!

This is my first post on the start of my hydroponics journey and hope to follow with many more. I am keeping this on my food blog because I will only be growing food bearing plants.

Paella

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13 pound brisket gone wrong

My bro in-law recently got a smoker! His first try with it was a success… unfortunately our 2nd was not that great. We had a 13 pound brisket…. Long story short, the temperature in the smoker was too much, and it cooked too fast. However, the sausage we smoked came out great!

Glenlivet 15

This bottle of 15 year Glenlivet scotch was aged in a limousine oak cask. Lomousin is a forest in south-central France near the city of Limoges that produces fine oak to be used in barrels. The Limousin oak is prized for its loose grain which imparts a more obvious oak flavor and stronger tannins. They used to be popular for California wine makers, but now are most popular for use in making cognac.
Good stuff, delicate yet full spiciness and great woodiness. Short finish on the palate.