All you need for the best combination of easy and awesome (in sauce form) is cream and gorgonzola cheese. Mix it. Heat it. Awesome. It also can provide you with a tasty excuse for say… not updating Posh’s blog yesterday like you were supposed to. Yeah, that’s right. I ditched you guys for this:
If you had been here you totally would have been like, “Good choice, Matt. Your sauce is so awesome. Let’s make out.” But more likely you would say, tell me how you made it, and I would say, “okay:
There is the steak: marinated in balsamic vinegar, then pan seared with rosemary.
The potatoes chopped and backed with mature cheddar cheese between the slices and some grilled onions.
The pasta cooked, like normal, but then the sauce was awesome. I made a scratch cream sauce then added in a little bit of another sauce I was secretly making at the same time. It was a red pesto. I should have photo documented the steps, but I forgot.
Oh, also there was a salad with French dressing and tomatoes and strawberries. I got home from the grocery store with all this at 1 in the afternoon. Dinner wasn’t till 7, but I was excited so I made the salads and stuck them in the freezer, the lettuce froze and broke like an ice sheet. ”
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But that was yesterday. I want to talk about something else, cities. Henri and I have been having an ongoing conversation about the idea of social currencies and the variability that exist from city to city. Let me begin with some examples.
Austin:
In Austin the social currency seems to revolve around what is unique and different (dare I say weird). Local business that do things in a bit of a cooky way seem to do surprisingly well.
New York City:
New York is dependant on location. Everything from where things are located and the connotations with being in that area, to people you trust because they know their way around the city.
London:
I’ve only lived in London for four months so I don’t know how accurate this will be. The currency here so far seems to be money.
Since I’ve never been to San Francisco I have no idea what to think of it, but I do remember what South Park said it was pretentious (sorry the youtube has been deleted).
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This is what I’m doing this weekend:
i am in san francisco, and i haven’t eaten anything yet, and this post made me HUNGRY LIKE A HIPPO.
also i want to point out that my own social currency is probably food, regardless of where i am.
example: if i find good food in a city, i will like it.
example: if you make me tasty food, i will like you.
matt, thanks for posting. also give amber a kiss on the cheek for me!
dinner looks yummy!
sf = the number of gays in your inner circle
Hey Matt,
This post is awesome, I think….. it’s looking funny in Firefox on a Mac.
I wonder who Anonymous is, could it be Larry David!!!?
I don’t agree that the currency in London is money. I haven’t been here that much longer than you have/Matt has (this time around, anyway - I’ve been here significantly longer than six or seven months if you tally up all the England-time I’ve clocked in my life), but I’ve found that, even more than Austin, London stresses individuality. I personally find it far easier to be kooky and free here than it was in Texas, and I feel that people here value my idiosyncracies and oddities here more than they did in Austin - and in Austin more than they did in OKC, where I grew up.
Of course, I’m also aware that this viewpoint is completely dependent upon my own life and experiences, and in no way reflects what London actually ‘is.’
And your food looked delicious.