food and music obsessions

[insaneneko]

I was listening to an interview of a Spanish chef on The Splendid Table and just about died when he described a dish called Arroz Cubano (Cuban rice) that apparently everyone in Spain has grown up with. Fried egg+rice+tomato sauce (and at times banana?) sounds heavenly. Will try to figure out kind of rice to use. I doubt the medium grain rice we have in the house would be right...

I also am so going to try making Panna Cotta after reading David Lobovitz's blog post on it. It looks so easy! I just need to get my butt to a store and buy cream and gelatin. Though I have a feeling I may already have gelatin it may be buried somewhere...I also have a huge bottle of homemade vanilla extract I really want to test (you just stick vanilla beans into a bottle filled with vodka or rum and let it sit for a while--minimum 6 weeks, probably).

I also want to eat Cowboy Steak with Chimichurri Sauce because I love chimichurri sauce. Love. I...just don't want to make it myself. ^^;

I am currently completely obsessed with "Famous Blue Raincoat" by Leonard Cohen after listening to an interview on Fresh Air--he is putting on concerts after having all his money stolen by his manager while he was in a Buddhist monastery! I love the original (check it out here) but I am also looking for awesome covers. I am so glad you can hear samples on Amazon and on iTunes. I still haven't decided on whether to buy CDs or mp3s, and if I go with mp3s whether to go with Amazon or iTunes. I've been too traumatized by successive hard drive crashes to not expect another one--and even now I'm still lazy about backing up. XD; On the other hand, CDs take up space and can get really heavy. What to do, what to do.

Comments

[worldserpent.livejournal.com]

Panna cotta is a super, super easy dessert to make. Goes well also if you have some berries.

[leviosa8.livejournal.com]

I had Japanese kids prepare that rice in a couple of cooking lessons. One with adults too. The mixture between the tomato sauce, the rice, the fried egg (with olive oil!) and the fried banana (sweet) felt like something from another galaxy to them. But it is really easy to prepare, and I like it a lot!

[sansei555.livejournal.com]

Can't vouch for any of them, but wikipedia has a list of cover versions of Famous Blue Raincoat:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famous_Blue_Raincoat