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OH: This shit is bomb. (re: a taco truck)
Taco trucks put crack in their tacos, I swear. At least the ones by me do, they're so addictive. - Trish R
I always get hungry on Derrick's feed. - Mike Fruchter
The marinated pork there is enough to make you go crazy. - Derrick
I'm with Mike. Derrick's feed is like foodie crack. - Aaron Hood
Likes the food. ---> - Derrick
*dead* - Melissa
How does the Oakland taco truck compare with the LA taco truck? Because when I tried the Oakland taco truck? I think I saw Jesus. - Barry Wynn
funkybrownchick: To the vegetarian twitterer who said eating BBQ was the same as eating "charred baby corpses" I say this: Nom, nom, nom. That shit was good.
It worked! I decided to feed in my favorite tweets and wasn't sure if I was doing it right. I was! - Derrick
Twitter faves! Now there's a good idea I'm going to steal. - Mark
Cannibalism with yummy sauce FTW - Adrian Culici
Hell Yeah! Nom Nom! - Xavier Mathews via email
What feed did you use for the favorites? I've been trying to get this to work for a while and am not having any luck. - pea ♥ fierce as a woozle
Vegetarians like that give the rest of us a bad name. - Rochelle
How do they give you a bad name? - Xavier Mathews via email
Pea, I went to my Twitter favorites page on Twitter's web interface and copied the RSS feed into FF's. If I can figure it out, anybody can. And Rochelle, you are my favorite vegetarian, lest anyone tell you some other tomfoolery. - Derrick
funkybrownchick: To the vegetarian twitterer who said eating BBQ was the same as eating "charred baby corpses" I say this: Eating Edamame is the same as eating salted boiled baby corpses. - Matthew DeVries
I don't eat meat, but I don't deny that it tastes good. And I have no problem with anyone else eating it. - Bec Rowe @d0tski
Meat Has the protein you need. Eating it or not does not make you any less of a normal person. That tweet was just ignorant. - Xavier Mathews via email
That's so weird. I don't get an RSS feed link for my favorites page. - pea ♥ fierce as a woozle
Ah, never mind. Not sure why it never occurred to me to look at that page's source code. Thanks! - pea ♥ fierce as a woozle
From what I remember from various documentaries and old classes, if humans were not omnivorous, we never would have evolved to our current stage (especially in the brain department). Question is... now that we are here, do we stop eating meat for ethical reasons? Is there a long term evolutionary consequence to such a choice? - Adrian Culici
We could certainly as a nation/species stand to eat substantially less meat (I'm worship Michael Pollan, read Omnivores Dilemma and In Defense of food. Go Go), that being said, unless you live in a modern society with the ability to import out of season foods and a metric ass load of money to waste, it's literally impossible to be healthy on meat-free diet. There just isn't enough stuff... more... - Matthew DeVries
Back from enjoying fine art books, comics, tacos, mac and cheese, the 10 frwy, and Fuji reversal film with my girl @mellemusic.
awesome day. <3 - Melissa
mmmm... Fuji reversal film. :) - Wirehead
Driving with @mellemusic to pick up comics in Silverlake and planning a trip to Atlanta in...Oct.?
what titles are you two picking up? - RAPatton
Yay! - Laura Botts
I bought lots. X-Men, Spidey, Dark Reign Avengers, Thor, can't remember the rest. - Derrick via iPhone
Made Yours Marvel! I've liked all the Avengers titles recently. Make sure you have Agents of Atlas. - RAPatton
Uh Melle is coming to Kentucky in October. You best be planning to come here too. Don't make me get ill up in here. - Michelle Jones
November ;) - Melissa
On a whim, I made mac and cheese with a classic French béchamel sauce instead of my old recipe. The verdict? Vive la France.
What's a bechamel sauce? - Alex Scoble
@Alex - It's creamy sauce stuff, I can't really describe the taste of it, but it's not cheesy. - Tyson Key
Cool - Alex Scoble
If I remember correctly, it's an ingredient in lasagne, too. - Tyson Key
It's basically a sauce made from a roux (equal parts butter and flour), stirred and cooked until smooth, then you add milk, bring to a simmer and there you go. I added finely diced onion, a little paprika, and a pinch of dry mustard, before adding the cheese and cooking it until smooth again. Fold in your macaroni, spoon it into a baking dish and bake for a half hour. Should be ready in about five minutes. :) - Derrick
Dude, I want Derrick's food. It always sounds delicious. - Aaron Hood
sounds very similar to how I make my mac and cheese. right on, Derrick. :) - holly
Aaron, I dare say our paths will cross IRL. And I will hook you up. *fist bump* - Derrick
Nice! Mac and Cheese and whiskey sours. Sounds like a pretty good night. - Aaron Hood
Sounds GREAT. Truffle oil into a mac and cheese is good too. - Rich
We won a week's stay at an apt in Paris (in a charity auction raffle - half a block from Notre Dame!) when our kids were in ninth and third grades, respectively, so we knew we were going to be eating cafe food all week - no sense wasting money on haute cuisine for kids that age. Well, the best mac and cheese we ever ate was in those corner cafes! I bet anything, Derrick, that your recipe was essentially what we were eating, except maybe with Gruyere . . . - Mary Baum
Mary, my dream is go to France for a few months and learn classic French techniques in the kitchen. The sauces, croissants, pastries, chocolate. Maybe someday. :) - Derrick
Don't you have a (somewhat shorter, perhaps) trip planned for the next several months to a year? - Mary Baum
Planning on going next summer for maybe ten to fourteen days? It'll be my first trip there. - Derrick
You will LOVE it. - Mary Baum
I already do! :D - Derrick
That's how I've always made my mac & cheese, minus the onion and paprika, and with regular mustard instead of powder. What's your usual method, Derrick? - Mellissa Doyle
I've made a very similar mac'n'cheese, Derrick. It takes work, but it's so delicious, I'll never make it any other way. - Jen (SquirrelGirl)
Melissa, I used to cook the mac, drain it. add the cheese and a little milk and whisked in a bit of flour and let it come up to a simmer. Certainly a variation on a béchamel, but something I've been making since I was maybe 15 or so? I like this new way, if only for making me feel like I'm learning something that people have been doing tried and true for a couple hundred years. :D - Derrick
That basic white sauce (before the addition of cheese, paprika, etc) is the basis of some of my best sauces. Of course, it is the main ingredient in my fave french dish, Croque Monsieur. I've also on occasion used wholemeal flour to make the roux - it's difficult to avoid it becoming too sticky, but when it works it has a really interesting flavour - Slippy 2.0
That's how I always make my macaroni and cheese. I wasn't aware of alternatives...how did you do it before? - joey
that was GOOD :) thanks, D! - Melissa
Looks like a fire in Griffith Park. Stay tuned.
again? - RAPatton
Yes, Robert. It's fire season. Don't know anything yet, but saw it walking back from Secret Headquarters on Sunset. - Derrick via iPhone
Secret Headquarters is a cool store; the boys's cousins live up there - RAPatton
@jbrotherlove http://www.youtube.com/watch... Sorry, I couldn't resist. Have a good Sunday, mister. :D
@jbrotherlove http://bit.ly/mzfKq Sorry, I couldn't resist. Have a good Sunday, mister. :D
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I love this song. I think Imma be 90 and still loving this song. - pea ♥ fierce as a woozle
i slow the beat down in my head and hear this (listen closely @ :30) http://listen.grooveshark.com/#... i am convinced that the jets ripped off man parrish. #diggininthecrates - Carlos Ayala
LOL Flashbacks to 9th grade gym class here! We did the dance from this for aerobics. - Anika Malone
I can't turn the sound on at work. BUT please tell me this is "Crush on You" or whatever its called. I can kinda tell it is though. OH LOVE! - *Tiffany Diamond*
LOVE this song! - Mary Carmen
Thankyou. Thankyou. Thankyou. For posting such a classic 80's tune.............Annoying yes but infectious! lol - Kevin Hatton
aahh, not available in my country! why?? - Patrik Johansson
Carlos, I can hear it. interesting. - pea ♥ fierce as a woozle
ack!!! - sean808080
Lord have mercy. #wimbledon
OH: "The headband is critical." *dead* re: #wimbledon
My tweet stream is full of #wimbledon . Who knew y'all loved tennis the way y'all do?
Swagger at Barbarella Bar - http://www.latimes.com/theguid...
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For the last three decades, DJs have had a little trick in their back pocket guaranteed to fill a dance floor: When all else fails, play Michael Jackson. DJ Paul V. put this theory to the test at the inaugural edition of Swagger, a new weekly Sunday afternoon post-brunch party at the Barbarella Bar on Hyperion (in the old Zen Sushi space). A mega-mix of MJ hits elicited a swarm of bodies onto the makeshift dance floor at the back of the bar, led by Paul Grillo, replete in a powder-blue Farrah Fawcett T-shirt. - Derrick
"Come on, it's time to party!" he shouted to no one in particular. The boisterous crowd seemed to agree. While a birthday party was in full swing in the front patio area, a gang of guys milled around the bar, taking in the scene and indulging in the exotic beers on tap. The waitresses clad in their Barbarella uniforms of short shorts and corset-like tops seem especially relaxed during... more... - Derrick
"In Silver Lake, the tradition for gay guys is the old-fashioned beer bust at places like the Eagle and Faultline," explains Paul V. over the phone from his home in the area. "You go in the afternoon, get cheap beer in plastic cups and go for it. We wanted to have a place where the alcohol has more to offer, with microbrews, wine and cocktails. Plus Barbarella has really good food."... more... - Derrick
"God forbid you're over 30 and hanging out on Santa Monica Boulevard," V. muses. "I can walk the streets of West Hollywood and be completely ignored because I'm not a 25-year-old fashionista that goes to the gym three times a day. I hate to stereotype, but that's just how it is over there. Out here in Silver Lake, you can be a gay man over 30 and feel totally comfortable. But that's not... more... - Derrick
And I have to admit I posted because I could resist ole boy in the Farrah Fawcett t-shirt in that lovely pose. - Derrick
I'm not gay, but this article makes me really want to move to Silver Lake. I mean, among many many other reasons. - mike fabio
@MaverickNY My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.
A Second Home on a Starter Budget - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
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THE minute they pulled into the driveway, Christina Salway and John Moskowitz knew they had found their house. “It was perfect for us, with all its imperfections,” said Ms. Salway, a 26-year-old interior designer. “The place had been abandoned for two years and had literally gone to seed. But we could see the little house had great bones.” The structure was basically sound, and the plumbing and heating worked. Priced out of the New York City real estate market, the couple rent an apartment in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. They decided to make their first home purchase a weekend house in the Catskills. - Derrick
They had looked at about 30 houses during a four-month hunt for a country home last summer, and finally closed on the two-bedroom, one-bath home for $95,000 last September. Along with the house, a 700-square-foot 1920s cottage, the property in Sparrow Bush, a village in Orange County, N.Y., includes eight and a half wooded acres and a detached garage/barn 800 feet from the house. Every... more... - Derrick
“That’s the luxury of being a young, first-time home buyer,” Ms. Salway said. “It was empowering to see what we could do.” They very much wanted to “build” a home together and during their search realized all they could afford was a wreck. “We knew we were really capable people,” Ms. Salway said. “Even using power tools did not intimidate us.” With a budget of $10,000, the couple worked... more... - Derrick
Alive and Evolving - the Paris Bistro http://travel.nytimes.com/2009...
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WHETHER the Parisian bistro is dead depends largely on how you define “bistro.” If you need pigeonholes for your napkins, no wine choices because the owner’s brother-in-law makes Beaujolais, a dependable blanquette de veau every Tuesday, and the neighborhood plumber sitting in the corner, you’re out of luck. But if you want a small, cozy place, reasonably comfortable, with reliable and affordable food, it may be that the choices are better than they have been in years. - Derrick
That’s my experience, anyway. The food in the places discussed here is often inventive but never silly, with the occasional deconstructed classic making an appearance, but a sound one. The atmosphere is friendly enough. You don’t sit shoulder to shoulder with your neighbors as you do in the ostensibly old-fashioned bistros (no one really likes that, do they?), and the places are often... more... - Derrick
@corvida Also, check out @michellej's Louisville blog. It's not tech, but it's still worth checking out. She's amazing peeps.
Re-watching that scene where Jessica and Hoyt meet for the first time in Merlotte's. #trueblood
And the hopeless romantic in me is at the same time enchanted with delight, and insanely jealous and spiteful. Oh, elusive love. :( - Derrick
I saw the scene and was blown away. I want that enchantment again! We'll get it someday, man. - Jonathan Hardesty via Android
*cries* - Derrick
Which episode was that in? - Amani
Whatever the most recent one was. - Derrick
Yes, you are correct. Poor Hoyt. - Amani
Poor Hoyt? He just got himself a girlfriend! - Derrick
Perhaps you should finish the episode before you get too happy for him. LOL - Amani
I finished it, Amani. And now I'm thoroughly confused. *scratches head* - Derrick
irinaslutsky: love me some katt williams!
Watching a French film, sipping a Cuban mojito, and noshing on tortilla chips and salsa. Happy Independence Day, America.
which film? - Violet Mae Lim
La Femme Nikita, Violet. - Derrick
Lindsey, I haven't seen it in forever, but I recently hung out with my dad, and I know that he loved it. Maybe that subconsciously made me want to see it. - Derrick
Should we assume that this is a pants-free viewing? - Katy S
Pants? What are those? Pass the rum. - Derrick
I don't have any rum. I do have some fine dark German beer. Would you like some??? - Katy S
Katy, is the Pope Catholic? :^) - Derrick
Well, according to one relative of mine (who will otherwise remain anonymous), the answer was no - he's polish. That was the last pope, but you get the point. It took a while to convince this person that a person could be both. - Katy S
Sure... independence from France and Mexico... I don't think California was ever part of Cuba though :) - Richard Walker *popcorn*
@undomesticdiva I didn't say a word about my chocolate, though.
Your chocolate what? - Jack Carlson
His Chocolate brings all the boys to the yard and their like.. - CW™
If you have to ask, Jack... :D - Derrick
@undomesticdiva And you haven't even had my cookies yet. #inthisinstancecookiesarejustcookies
Spoiled my comment with your hashtag. :P - Jack Carlson
Agree with Jack. - CW™
Lawl. :D - Derrick
@undomesticdiva Something I say, cupcake?
@undomesticdiva A bit of a selfish lover, that Ryan, but you have to let him know who's top...I mean boss.
Mac and cheese. http://twitpic.com/9cx5m
Mac and cheese. http://twitpic.com/9cx5m
NOM! - Aaron Hood
<3 - holly
I love home made mac and cheese, but I had to quit making it cause I'd eat it all the time... - Tad, Anti-Immanentizer
Baked = LOVE! - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Baked mac & cheese is awesome. - John
Nice work there. - τorƍue
Thanks, Torque. Only two or three bites though. Noming on some cherries and drinking some ice cold water now. - Derrick
Mac and cheese, small bite http://twitpic.com/9cxbc
Mac and cheese, small bite http://twitpic.com/9cxbc
I've eaten but now getting HUNGRY!! - Dave - SustainedEuphoria
Actually, this pic isn't very appealing, but trust me, it's NOM. - Derrick
@Adriennevh Other than me, you mean? :D
RT @funkybrownchick To the veggie twitterer who said eating BBQ was the same as eating charred baby corpses I say: Nom. That shit was good.
ROFL - Alex Scoble
ROFL, LMAO, OMGWTFBBQ *dead* - Derrick
Indeed, Derrick, Indeed. - Alex Scoble
pass the babies, plz! *BURRRP* - Dead Silence
@skeskali Gruyere is a good one. If I'm just farting around, I'll use whatever is in the icebox, which is usually 3 or 4 diff kinds.
@skeskali Sharp white cheddar. Not as oily and greasy as the yellow stuff, but has that "bite" that I like.
@jasonmbader I've always had insanely good deals and prices with Amazon. *shrug*
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