I Blame The Patriarchy

Leftover baby back ribs from Hudson’s On The Bend
It’s Oscar Night again. Time for Hudson’s leftover ribs and Star Trek DVDs.
Star Trek DVDs are indicated when one eats ribs instead of watching the Oscars. Books require page turning, and TV requires constant channel flipping, and we don’t want to get sauce on the remote, or […]

Fig. 15. Rattlesnake cakes on a slab of granite
Fig. 24a. Giant Meat Plate: 1) elk backstrap 2) wild game sausage 3) rabbit nuggets 4) two quail halves 5) buffalo tenderloin
Thirty-five minutes northwest of North South Austin by car lies the swishily rustic Hudson’s On The Bend, the most expensive barbecue joint I have ever loosened […]

Fusilli, leftover takeout chicken, sun-dried tomato, roasted garlic, mushroom essence
Meanwhile, self-inflicted castration falls out of fashion
I got outside this dish while watching responsibly reported hard news on TV. "Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs-Seeing Is Believing." There’s nothing like watching a parade of yokels declaim "I know what I seen, and it warn’t no aeroplane!" to take […]

Orrechiette with tasso ham and peas
If you’re like me, you have a vacuum-pack of Savoie’s tasso lying around. And if your tasso is like mine, it cries out to be combined with a sauce of peas and shallots and white wine and cream, thereafter to be applied to a bowl of orrechiette.
I pruned a bit […]

Los tacos de Tacodeli: fish (left) and the peerless Frontera Fundido
Tacodeli has perfected the taco with a little number they like to call Frontera Fundido. This sublime example of the taqueriador’s art is chunks of toothsome pot roast with fried onions and crisp poblano peppers. The secret ingredient is the mysterious "mouth-watering cheese glaze." I […]

Grilled lamb chops with mustard and red currant glaze, flageolets with spinach and tomaters, and a head of roasted garlic
"You know, when I joined the Army nine years ago people would always ask me why I joined. Did I do it for college money? Did I do it for women? People never understood. I wanted […]

Footwear of the Middle Ages
I
blame the patriarchy for my persisting addiction to misogynist
footwear. And god help me, I love the Manolo! Witness his greatness here, and here.

The best goddam hamburger ever grilled by anyone, honky or Negro
In Austin, where failure to own a grill is a felony, there are only six or seven hours per year when it’s too cold for a cookout. The Twisty Test Kitchens have operated outside the law long enough! A few days ago we finally acquired […]

Poor Kim Tran: sick of the dick
Raging Feminist wonders how come a guy getting his dick chopped off is "so damn shocking" ("police said they were surprised by the nature of the crime") when the mass mutilation of gazillions of women is a daily occurence and causes not so much as a media burp.
Wonder no […]

Enchiladas Tres Marias at Las Palomas, Austin
Las Palomas, I am sorry to say, is in a strip mall on Bee Caves Road. The strip mall is an enormous, baking-hot asphalt parking lot. Around the edges is a single long, low, soul-sucking building, with a Taco Bell on one end and a UPS Store on the […]