great recipe and a question

Salmon in Dijon Broth

The recipe's simple and the broth is really, really delicious. Instead of wilting spinach, I just put some watercress in the bottom of the bowl before I poured in the broth. Yum.

So here's my question. I love your present of the shared recipes, and I'm wondering if I should start another blog that we could both subscribe to where we could each post good stuff we're cooking. I'd love to see what you're doing, and I'd love to share the good stuff I've found... Then we'd have a whole recipe box over time. What do you think?

have you seen this?

random stimulation

As a preface:



Below are some internet discoveries for you, things I saw and wanted you to also see. It's trite to say that people are using the internet in new and weird ways all the time, but they surely are. I hope some of these few little doorways will be inspiring or useful, and that they will open up onto other inspiring and interesting stuff. Poke around the blogs and sites I got these from. There's fascinating stuff out there.

You could even (if you want!) keep a log of your own internet discoveries here, like an online writer's journal of viral videos and joke emails and little bits and blurbs you want to remember.

Also, be sure you click "Older Posts" when you get to the bottom of this page.

With much love and excitement for the new world that's about to begin, your brother,

James

copacabana

In this June 27, 2008 file photo, a man runs next to balloons placed at Copacabana beach, in Rio de Janeiro. Demonstrators released around 4,000 red balloons during an event representing the 4,000 people who were expected to become victims of violence over the next six months. (AP Photo/ Ricardo Moraes)

christian the lion

LION HEART

Christian the Lion was a little lion cub that two young guys saw on sale at Harrods in London in 1969, back when department stores sold these kinds of things. They took him back to their flat, where he got into their sock drawers and played with balls of string. They befriended a vicar who let them use a local churchyard as a playground for the cub, and at the beginning of the video (which someone pulled out of an old British documentary and posted on YouTube last summer) there’s Super 8 footage of them frolicking about. Then text appears on the screen explaining that once Christian got too big, the boys had to take him to Africa to be with his own kind. A year later they decided to go visit him, even though they were warned that Christian had become a full-grown lion with a pride of his own and wouldn’t remember them and would perhaps attack them if they went. They went anyway, these two tall, floppy-haired guys whom I admit I am seriously crushed out on, and the next thing you see is this grainy footage of them standing in the African sand, calling Christian’s name silently, because there’s no sound. Oh, and I’m sorry, did I forget to mention that Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” is playing in the background, and that as you see Christian appear and are still unsure what’s going to happen (my friend Heather was convinced she was going to witness the two boys’ deaths; she couldn’t understand why else I was freaking out so much when I made her watch it) you hear Whitney sing, “I wish you joy and happiness, but above all this, I wish you lo-uh-ove,” and then Christian is running toward the boys, leaping onto his hind legs (“Watch out!” Heather screamed at this part) and the music is all, “And I will alll-ways love you,” and you see that Christian not only remembers them but that he loves them, dearly, desperately, he is hugging them with his enormous lion paws? And one of the guys, who looks a lot like a young Roger Daltrey, actually, has this huge smile on his face and you can see him choke back a sob. It’s just the most solid reason I’ve seen yet for why the Internet should exist. By the way, the video isn’t nearly as effective without the Whitney Houston song. I’ve tried watching it both ways and, really, you need the song in order to experience the full-blown effect.

STARLEE KINE (radio producer and author)

(from NYT)

one hundred and one

A woman trying to actually use all of her cookbooks and taking beautiful photos.

I made a resolution (although it turns out that I wasn't very good at keeping it). I would stop buying cookbooks, or at least scale back, and start trying new recipes. In the process I hoped to learn new techniques, explore unfamiliar ingredients, discover/keep track of new recipes, document my successes and failures, and hopefully inspire other cooks to do the same.

Her recipes are mostly vegetarian, simple, and pretty.

just hear it

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