Presenting The Faux Gourmet!

The Faux Gourmet has been on hiatus for a while. I began this blog as a creative outlet during law school. After law school, I started other blogs on other topics and no longer needed this as a creative outlet, not to mention my diminishing free time.

But I kept cooking, kept taking food pictures and garden pictures, kept wanting to share the little tidbits of what I'd made. I occasionally did this on my personal blog (to which, I'm sure, people yawned and wondered when I'd post another cat picture). But I started to miss this space. Of all the blogs I have, this format, culled over several dedicated years and incorporating that adorable illustration by Sam Wedelich (see info the left) is by far my favorite.

So I'm back!

Expect short and sweet posts. Less food porn, more recipes and tips. If you want food porn you can look at any of the 5000 million existing food blogs. I don't have good lighting in my apartment and don't have time to style plates. I just want to make something yummy and eat it. If that sounds ok with you, stick around.

Looking forward to being back in touch!

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    Wednesday, February 25, 2009

    Cheap Tricks Vol. 1

    Back to WITP's roots:
    Random food-moments from the Motherland


    Hello dear readers,

    I've been away quite some time now. I flatter myself that some of you missed my chirpy little missives on food, so I'm sorry for leaving you alone like this. It isn't like me and I'll try not to do it again. The longer I stayed away, the more I felt I had to bring you to make up for my absence, until it became an insurmountable obstacle.

    But I'm determined to get back on the horse. I've eaten so very many delightful things over the past few months, many, I'm happy to say, made by my own hands, and I am excited to finally get around to sharing the love. You see, I've missed you too! You have no idea how I enjoy hearing from you; I love knowing that my writing or recipes has somehow added a little more deliciousness into your lives. Let's have more of that, starting again now.

    To kick off my return I thought I'd just share a few food photos just for the fun of it, and a few good old-fashioned faux gourmet tips & cheap tricks, from my kitchen to yours. I'm a busy gal with a full life. I may not have time to write about cooking it, but I think it is fair to say if I have time to cook it, so do you.

    A Few Thai Frivolities

    Let's kick it off with . . . juice n' jugs. You buy a serving of juice, like longan, rosella, or coconut, and it comes in a cheeky little clay pot jug. I have to admit, I actually find them rather frightening. Longan, by the way, is Thailand's greatest fruit export, accounting for more income than pineapple, pommelo, or (shockingly) durian, also known as "the fruit that smells like poo." Yes, it does. Longan, however--well, I didn't really eat it often. Maybe because most of it is exported.


    Next we have fresh shrimp, fishballs, crab and . . . mango. Because, when I think of how I'm going to arrange my raw seafood display, I always think lining it with fresh mango is a good idea.


    Thais do love their cute things--that's na-rak to you--so why would you be surprised to see rice served in the shape of a teddy bear?


    Even better. Who said veggies couldn't be fun?


    Next, I'm very pleased that this woman sells the product that she sells. Indeed, she was born to sell this product:



    These sausages are delightful, and this is coming from someone who is not really a fan of the genre overall. But these are spicy and rich, with a the perfect degree of tension in the casing, in contrast to the squishy goodness inside. These are sausages a person could get an unhealthy craving for.


    They're served for breakfast with cabbage and spicy dipping sauce, not more than a few baht each. I want to say 10 but I can't find the notes I so meticulously took. I was probably too busy gulping down sausages.


    This delightful lady and her enormous smile is parked outside the soi next to Ari shopping center, right below the Ari BTS stop. It is worth your while to find her next time you're in Bangkok, if not for the sausages, then because her effervescence have you grinning in no time.


    Hopefully I'll be back again very soon, with another cheap trick for your viewing, and eating pleasure.

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