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There is actually a decent amount of science on what we find cute and why. One of the big parts is 'pedomorphism', having facial proportions comparable to a young child. Here's a decent Smithsonian article on some of it in relation to pandas...

Some of the tangerine and mead braised duck as plated. Half of it crisped in the broiler. Sauce is the braising fluid, more mead, and tarragon. With sautéed sweet and sour cabbage.

Thanks for the advice, folks. Cyrus does have plenty to chew on (bones, rope, nylabones) but I was out of the apartment longer than usual yesterday (voted on the way home, that and traffic added two hours to how long I was out). I will be crating him again for the foreseeable future, and...

Haven't posted here in a while. The advice I got here helped me finally house break my puppy. He had been doing fine with everything until this week. Then Tuesday, I got home from my office to his worst behavior in many months. He had been staying in my bedroom when I'm not here for many...

Bone-in ribeye seared in bacon fat then broiled in red wine. Sauce is the pan drippings, more red wine, mushrooms, garlic, butter, bacon demi and fresh tarragon. Garnished with smoked white cheddar.

Made from the smoked trout - smoked trout salad (smoked trout, mayonnaise, lemon juice, dill, old bay, salt, pepper) with smoked goat gouda, sourdough bread and sour pickles. Smoke smoke sour sour.

My first smoked cheeses. Aged white cheddar and goat's milk gouda.

Experimental smoker day today. Trying fish for the 1st time in this smoker, and cheese for the 1st time ever. Below is the fish - rainbow trout smoked over pecan wood, sugar maple, and pecan shells. Now running much colder, I have aged white cheddar and goat's milk gouda in the smoker. Along...

Did you know as much as 1% of the human population may have a partially absorbed twin and not know it? I'm posting this as a reply to the above, cuz if we're going with personal physical weirdness, this may be hard to top. I recently was informed by a doctor that it appears I may very well...

Bratwurst braised in dry sherry, mushrooms, bacon fat, a shitload of black pepper, and sage; sweet and sour red cabbage (in cider vinegar, sweet mead, sugar, kosher salt, black pepper, and celery seed); and sourdough bread.

"these are clean doses"

Have definitely had that happen. Pretty, tasty, useless. Here's a lie that drives me personally insane. "Obama is taking away our rights!" As someone who works in the law, I can tell you our rights HAVE been dramatically degraded since 2008. But ALL as a result of conservative Supreme...

I've actually done a Thelemite meditation where you put pure cinnamon oil on your third eye and sit there with your real eyes wide open for as long as you can. Hurts like a motherfucker. Actually got some in one of my eyes once and never did the meditation again.

I gotta call shenanigans on this one. Though it can be a lie at times, there are many, many foods that in fact taste orders of magnitude better than they smell. Especially cheeses, mushrooms, and some meats. Examples: Cambozola cheese- can smell quite off-putting, but IMO the best tasting...

Pork dijon- loin seared in bacon fat, braised in sherry, finished with dijon, cream, nutmeg, and celery seed. With some creamed spinach.

Canneloni - stuffed with a mixture of left-over creamed spinach from last night, some fennel sausage I made (got some from the butcher but didn't like it and made my own instead - ground pork, fennel seed, sea salt, black pepper, chili flakes, horseradish, garlic, nutmeg), and ricotta. Sauce is...

WTF? I know Fox has at most a casual relationship with facts, but come the fuck on. Even wikipedia knows he was a bassist.

..and even my healthy dishes are full of tasty fat-tonight's veggie side dish, creamed spinach- spinach, cream, butter, veloute, garlic, ricotta and romano, topped with more romano and under the broiler. Which went along side truffled scallops- truffled scallops seared in butter and bacon...

First pasta in a while - fresh fettuccine in a spinach and tomato sauce. Sauce is bacon demi, tomato puree, garlic, pinot noir, and spinach; garnished with pecorino romano.

Another burger variant- 80/20 beef with garlic, seared in bacon fat and braised in bacon demi. Topped with Muenster, sherry-Drambuie bacon, kosher dills, tomato, mayo and ketchup.