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Start Your iPods

My first official iPod Start Your iPod since May!

  1. Wilco - Dark Neon
  2. Spoon - Everything Hits At Once
  3. Mazzy Star - She's My Baby
  4. Liz Phair - Alice Springs
  5. Radiohead - All I Need
  6. Big Star - Stroke It Noel
  7. Sea And Cake - Magic Step
  8. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - We Can't Help You
  9. Bill Monroe, et al - Gotta Travel On
  10. Spoon - Don't Buy The Realistic

It's nice being back on the iPod, where I've hand-picked each album it holds. A shuffle doesn't bring up any of the C-list stuff that lives in the full iTunes collection!

No, really - it actually is exciting to me. I'm easily amused.

The Gremolata

Thanks to Michael Ruhlman, I have discovered the magic of gremolata. What's that? It's basically a chimichurri without oil or vinegar. What's a chimichurri ? It's like pesto without pine nuts or parmesan.

In other words, a gremolata is an herb (typically parsley), lemon zest and raw garlic (in a 3:2:1 ratio), all finely chopped, then mixed. You can put it on hearty beef/veal/lamb dishes - Ruhlman used it with braised short ribs, I put it on a grilled sirloin last night. It works on fish, too. It's strong stuff - raw garlic and lemon zest have a lot to say - so you need something rich and flavorful to put it on. But it's tasty. And dead-simple to make.

All hail the gremolata !

Gah!

So, it turns out this "job" thing is eating up all my time. I wake up, rush off to the "job". I leave the "job" and get home just in time to cook, eat and watch a couple of episodes of Lost (they're better cooked). Then it's right to bed so I can get up and do it all again the next day.

This doesn't seem like a good way to live.