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A brisk, fall day called for warm, seasonal baked goods and a little music. If that loaf of Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread looks a little overgrown to you, listen to find out why. You can make your own pumpkin bread by (carefully) following this recipe:
3 c. all-purpose flour
2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
4 eggs
2 c. sugar
2 c cooked or canned pumpkin
1-1/4 c. vegetable oil
1-1/2 c. semi-sweet chocolate chips
In a large bowl, combine flour, cinnamon, salt and baking soda. In another bowl, beat the eggs, sugar, pumpkin and oil. Stir into dry ingredients just until moistened. Fold in chocolate chips.
Pour into two greased 8-in. x 4-in loaf pans. Bake at 350 degrees for 60-70 min. or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 min. before removing from pans to wire racks. Yield: 2 loaves.
The playlist:
AA Bondy - World Without End
Chad VanGaalen - Willow Tree
The Pretenders - Brass in Pocket
The M's - Pigs Fly
Smashing Pumpkins - Obscured
The Muslims - On My Time
For this installment of Rock and Roll Recipe Radio I invited over my friend Scott Gold, author of the new book The Shameless Carnivore: A Manifesto for Meat Lovers. While writing his book, Scott tasted 31 different animals in (roughly) 31 days, so it's safe to say he knows his meat. Scott brought over two different cuts of buffalo meat to my apartment which we turned into buffalo carpaccio, buffalo tenderloin with roasted potatoes, and pan-fried buffalo ribeyes. Don't worry, I prepared some veggies too.
Buffalo Tom - Treehouse Dash Rip Rock - Trapped Inside a Liquor Store With You Appomattox - Either Way Harris - Carousel The Ruby Suns - Oh, Mojave Deerhunter - Cryptogram Songs in the Key of Meat - 31 Animals in 31 Days
For my 28th birthday I decided to celebrate not only my birth, but also to lament that I simply didn’t rock out hard enough to burn out at 27 like so many rock stars (Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, etc).
Staying with this theme, and perhaps taking it to a whole new level, I enlisted cake-decorating friend Melissa to decorate for me a rock and roll suicide themed cake for the occasion. Tune in to this special birthday cake episode of Rock and Roll Recipe Radio to hear all about it. Rock and Roll Recipe Radio - Red Velvet Rock and Roll Suicide Cake
Playlist: The B-52’s – Cake The Afghan Whigs – Be Sweet Radiohead – House of Cards Ben Lee – Birthday Song Nirvana – Come As You Are Cake – Short Skirt / Long Jacket Cowboy Junkies – Sweet Jane Cracker – Happy Birthday to Me
Since you know we love food, music and bad puns, it should come as no surprise that this Food Marathon post comparing Hot Chip and Hot Kettle Chips delights us. Here's a taste...
ROUND 2 - ORANGE GINGER WASABI vs. SHAKE A FIST (track 2) Hand's down my favorite track and chip. The song's rich, layered production is akin to the chip's depth of flavor. Jangly bass undertones in the song are similar to the chip's subtle ginger flavor. The bass and wasabi are the highlights the song and chip respectively- notable in the aforementioned mid-song breakdown. The citrus in the chips is best represented by the overall synths in the song- both are well-defined, well-chosen and blend well with the other elements
It's a special Christmas episode of Rock and Roll Recipe Radio, and I am joined in the kitchen by my friend Anna. She makes the hot toddys while I mix the cookie dough, we both lick the mixers, and I handle the balls. I mean shaping the cookies into balls. Here's the holiday playlist:
The Wedding Present - Step Into Christmas Smoking Popes - O Holy Night The Raveonettes - The Christmas Song The Flaming Lips - Christmas at the Zoo The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping Coldplay - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
In the spirit of fall, I decided to make some cozy, harvest-y food. Plus someone challenged me to make lasagna. Tune in to the link below to hear me fumbling around in the kitchen with organic butternut squash, lasagna sheets that stick together, and layers that I get out of order thanks to too many glasses of wine. Or just tune in for the music below:
Neil Young - Harvest Moon R.E.M. - Me in Honey Iron and Wine - My Lady's House Nick Drake - At the Chime of a City Clock Pela - Lost to the Lonesome Smashing Pumpkins - Crush Pavement - Elevate Me Later
It's an especially great time for people who love both food and rock and roll. People like me. I've talked about Kara Zuaro's indie rock cook book, there's a link on the left to Post Punk Kitchen, and hopefully by now you've heard about Dinner With the Band, an online TV show that's brought NYC bands like Pela, Grizzly Bear and Matt & Kim in the studio to cook and to rock out.
Good food and good rock and roll meet again in the fall issue of my favorite free magazine, Edible Brooklyn. The regular feature, The Brooklyn Fridge -- in which Edible Brooklyn visits a prominent Brooklynite and dissects their 'fridge -- features Yo La Tengo bass player James McNew and his Red Hook apartment kitchen. A Brooklyn resident since 1991, McNew elaborates on his favorite places to food shop and eat in the borough I call home. I cranked up "Cherry Chapstick" on my iPod and let the drooling begin as I read this great little article on the train to work.
Read the full article by opening the pdf here. Or pick up a free copy of Edible Brooklyn around town.
**Update** I ran into James McNew at a bar in Park Slope shortly after posting this. I said (hopefully not too creepily) "I, uh, read all about your kitchen." To which he said, "It's a great place." We both nodded in agreement. I love living in Brooklyn.
As you may know by now, enjoying music is a major passtime of these two homewreckers. So tonight I'm debuting a new feature for Home Sweet Homewrecker called Rock and Roll Recipe Radio. Basically this is a chance for you to join us in the kitchen, try out a new recipe, and listen to some music while we cook. Listen in by saving the link below, or just check out the recipe (thank you Everyday Food) and enjoy this soundtrack.
Peter Bjorn & John - Objects of My Affection Archer Prewitt - Good Man Kid Sister - Damn Girl The Klaxons - Atlantis to Interzone Beastie Boys - Time for Livin' The Thermals - Our Trip The B-52's - Downtown Yo La Tengo - Sugarcube Stereolab - Retrograde Mirror Form
Apartment Therapy, a favorite homemaking blog of ours, occasionally posts about bands and musicians they enjoy listening to, reportedly, around the house. Hence, House Music.
I gotta say, their choices of Jason Mraz (who, granted, is adorable) and Rachael Yamagata amongst other ho-hum, safe "rockers" really bores me. So whom would I clean house and cook up a storm to, you ask?
Calexico - Fairly easy listening, but the south of the border vibes are spicy enough for the kitchen.
The B-52's - A personal favorite, I'd include this on a music list of any sort, but the upbeat tunes and the fact that singer Kate Pierson also happens to be a domestic goddess who owns this roadside motel make them a perfect fit for rockin' out with a broom or a wooden spoon.
The Thermals - The high energy and bounce of this noisy 3-piece makes any activity go by quickly and with considerable jumping around the room.
The Police - I don't know what it is exactly, but the ingrained familiarity of The Police make them the ideal compliment to any task. Like an old friend talking you through it. Plus you can break out into a chorus of "Turn on the red liiiiight" into your spatula if the vibe strikes you.
