Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts

  • Wasabi Snooters

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    I am of the opinion that “Jackass” has merit. Great drama involves great tension: Will Hamlet kill his uncle? Will Godot ever arrive? Will Johnny Knoxville survive the fall when he pole vaults over a perilous ledge? Such is the magic of theater. (Or, in this case, television).Tonight, flipping through the channels, I stumbled upon…

  • Thank You For Your Requests

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    Give the people what they want, that’s what I always say. Apparently the people want me to drink wine, make borscht, and eat testes. Easy enough!Actually, for those of you eager for me to become a vinophile, I photographed the four bottles of wine sitting on our counter for your analysis. Can you see them?…

  • Oh The Irony

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    This is a real e-mail I just received:Dear Adam,Low Carbs Online have reviewed your website and concluded that youwould be a perfect affiliate partner to market our site. Low CarbsOnline is one of the most visited Low Carb Online Stores in the world.We sell over 350 Low Carb products, and we have been ranked as…

  • I Take Requests.

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    Maybe this is a good time to ask: is there anything you’d like me to cook? To eat? To write about? I am open to suggestions as long as they are written in Sanskrit.

  • Nothing to report here.

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    Today was a non-food day, I’m afraid. No, it’s not Yom Kippur. It was the first day of the bar review and I’m a little zonked. And by zonked, of course, I mean tired. So forgive my failure to eat anything interesting.However, I would like to share an epiphany I had. I was listening to…

  • My New Starbucks Drink: Iced Caramel Macchiato

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    With my BarBri bar review class starting tomorrow (I better get to bed!) I need to prepare for a new chapter in my coffee shop patronage. Coffee shops and I have developed a symbiotic relationship these past few years: coffee shops provide me an escape from the dreaded internet (such a distraction!) and other perils…

  • I’m A Little Bit Kountry: Bobby and June’s Kountry Kitchen

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    Today I stepped into a time warp.The cast and crew of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” were swapped for the cast and crew of “O Brother Where Art Thou?” Stepping into Bobby & June’s Kountry Kitchen was like stepping through the looking glass—I came out the other side in a scene from 1956. I felt…

  • FOOD FICTION: Chapter One, “Horace Chesterbottom Makes An Omelette.”

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    According to this New Yorker piece [linked via Kottke.org], publishers are now scouring blogs for worthy writers to pen novels. Alas, I fear that my blog’s “Food Blog” status will automatically disqualify me from the running; petty publishers dismissing me with the click of a mouse.And so desperate times call for desperate measures. Tonight I…

  • Why Crab, Your Shell, It Is So Soft

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    The nice thing about being an amateur gourmet is that I am an amateur gourmet. By that, I mean, I have no accountability. Sort of like being an amateur doctor. “Oops,” you can say, “I swapped your liver with your spleen! Sorry!”Lacking accountability allows me to discuss things I know nothing about without any fear…

  • Condoleezza Rice Pudding with Berries of Mass Destruction

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    Great artists require great inspiration. F. Scott had Zelda, Cassavetes had Rowlands, and I have Condoleezza. This is my deepest darkest secret: Condoleezza Rice is my muse.She calls to me like a siren. Literally. She sits on top of a police car in the parking lot outside my window.”EEEEHOOOHEEEOOOOH!” she yells.”Yes Condoleeza?” I reply.”MAKE ME…