Thinking about a new phone.

new season of curb your enthusiasm starts tonight along with intriguing series premiere of bored to death starring jason schwarztman. also read somewhere that tonights madmen is best of season. emmys on cbs and giants v cowboys at inaugural game at new dallas stadium.

In various Brooklyn neighborhoods, one such meal has been served roughly twice a quarter for the better part of 10 years. A restaurant-style dinner for work-crazed urban professionals, it is as steady and simple as it is elegant and rich. It features pork chops grilled and glazed in a reduction of maple syrup and balsamic vinegar, served with soft apple slices coated in same beside a mound of polenta lightened with goat cheese and fragrant with rosemary, beneath a dusting of Clinton-era nostalgia: chopped pecans and candied ginger.

That last bit is what marks the dish as restaurant-style fare, worth aping at home: candied ginger is an inexpensive gild, the sort of marker that allows a chef to charge $21 a plate instead of $17. The man who devised this one is Matthew Kenney, the once-white-hot celebrity chef who opened (and saw close) a gaggle of popular scene-restaurants in the 1990s and early oughts: his Matthew’s, on the Upper East Side, begat, among others, Bar Anise, Mezze, Monzu, Canteen, Commune, Commissary. They are all gone now.

“I probably had it on the menu at Commune,” he said of the pork in a telephone interview from Oklahoma City, where he was in the process of opening a “living foods” restaurant and education center called 105degrees. Now a kind of raw-food entrepreneur, Kenney is a partner in the organic Free Foods cafes in Midtown Manhattan; he has helped develop restaurants in Madrid and Winter Park, Fla. He hasn’t eaten meat in a long time.

Now is the time to snip those basil leaves off of your plants, whip up some pesto, and freeze it. That way, you’ll still be eating local even if you can’t get to a farmers’ market during the winter months. Most cooks have different methods of making and freezing pesto. Some rinse the basil leaves first while others swear it will turn them brown; some omit the cheese before freezing while others omit the garlic. There is no magic formula; however, after years of making and freezing pesto, I have settled on a few tricks that work for me. I hope they work for you too.

Russ Meyer tribute on TCM tonight. (He died 5 years ago today.) Faster Pussycat at 2 AM EST and Mudhoney at 4 AM EST.

highly anticipated + chevy chase = ?!?



tonight @930 after season premiere of the office.

and much better than i can draw an elephant

new movie by helvetica documentarian - objectified

interview

Monetize the hate.

some crazy soccer action this afternoon via directv (461-469), fox sportschannel and setanta. 8 qualifying matches simultaneously @245 for the uefa champions league.

Dynamo 20:45 FC Rubin Kazan
Internazionale 20:45 Barcelona
Liverpool 20:45 Debrecen
Lyon 20:45 Fiorentina
Olympiacos 20:45 AZ
Sevilla 20:45 Unirea Urziceni
Standard 20:45 Arsenal
Stuttgart 20:45 Rangers

Official Badness

RIP Jim Carroll.

busy night of tv.

hour long series finale of king of the hill at 8.
season finale of true blood at 9.
chicago bears vs. greenbay packers @ 830.
womens us open finals at 9.
mad men at 10.

iphone ocarina

the influence of del close

any body ever chew teaberry gum. ever do the teaberry shuffle?

any body remember a birch, bark or root-beer flavored chewing gum.

one more time!

Mike

dont know if this was mentioned before but i walked past it the other day:

japanese premium beef

In South Africa, carrier pigeon faster than broadband

any good pizzeria near times square?

"You lie!”

Closed
THE JOHN DORY in Chelsea.
ELETTARIA on West Eighth Street.
((the john dory was a delish and prob very expensive to open spot that looked wacky to say the least owned by spotted pig and mario batali and del posto owners......))

iphone app tells you best time to go to bathroom @movies.

pave everything

phantom tollbooth on tcm now.