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by gansie

From the ES Inbox…

ES is full of diversity. Our fans not only send us pictures of hot dogs encased in french fries and bacon fried like a chicken tender, but we also receive notices about things that are actually good for humanity.

Here’s a message from an excellent baker, westcoast. While his pitch is DC centric, do check out the site as this is a nation wide effort.

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I wanted to give everyone a heads up that this Thursday, March 5 is Dining Out for Life, an event with participation from 150 DC area restaurants who are donating at least 25% of their sales to Food & Friends, a local group which supports those suffering from HIV, AIDS, cancer and other life-challenging illnesses.

Food & Friends provides nutrition counseling and delivers meals and groceries to more than 1400 people in the DC metro. My choir (GMCW) actually works in a kitchen helping prep veggies and such for F&F on a biweekly basis (let me know if you want the deets on that).

This is such an easy opportunity to participate and have money donated to F&F, all while enjoying a nice meal with friends.

The participating restaurants are listed here (notice the ones at the top are donating more than 25%…some are even donating 100%!)

Yay Sean Penn.

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by BS

From the ES Inbox…

Fwd: Chicken Fried Bacon

Jrod: Dipping that in the sausage gravy makes my mouth water.

Gansie: no.

BS: Yes!

The beautiful, greasy details about our fav new discovery:

ES Sponsors Will Blow Your Food-Loving Mind

Eat salmon. It’s full of good omega-3 fats. Don’t eat salmon. It’s full of PCBs and mercury. Eat more veggies. They’re full of good antioxidants. Don’t eat more veggies. The pesticides will give you cancer.

Ugh. Eating is so fucking hard nowadays. That’s why you should check out Joe Schwarcz’ An Apple a Day, the latest guide to all the myths, misconceptions, and realities surrounding the increasingly complex practice of putting things in your mouth and chewing. Do us a solid and click on that link to your right to read a preview of Joe’s hott new book. And check out more tasty reads over at our food lover’s book club.

(Photo: Lazuchenkov)

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by BS

Never Eat Alone

Ideally, we’d like it if you could stay on EndlessSimmer.com 24 hours a day, but we realize some of you feel this perverse need to visit other websites. Luckily, those of you addicted to the facebook thingey can get your ES fix over there as well. Join the Endless Simmer facebook group to connect with other simmerites and share your food experiences, like this amazing food photo album Rooms just posted today.

(Photo: lechampiondumonde)

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by gansie

Friday Fuck Ups: Only Gansie Would Call This a Fuck Up

First though, who is going to see the new Biggie movie, NOTORIOUS! Ever since I was in the movie theater viewing previews before Will Smith’s terrible/weird/depressing/dark/not holiday-uplifting movie, and saw clips for NOTORIOUS my brother and I looked at each other and said, I know what I’ll be doing January 16th. Unfortunately, my brother lives in Jersey and we haven’t yet coordinated travel plans. As a back up, I’ve been trying to talk 80p into it, but he says if there is no *critical acclaim* for a movie in the commercials, then that’s a surefire sign it will SUCK. But, I’m such a Biggie fan. He was the rapper of my youth. I was way more upset when he died than Kurt Cobain.

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Me and My Bitch is a love song.

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This is one of the only songs with “Stefanie” in it—my birth name—listen around the minute mark.

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And is there a better song to slow dance to?

Anyway, if there’s someone in the DC area who wants to take me on a NOTORIOUS date, I’m all over it.

Back to the Fuck Up…

Endless Promotion

Blogs totally rule the world, just in case you didn’t realize that yet.

But if you didn’t realize that, the public relations world totally did. The ES inbox gets tons of pressers every day, but I thought this one, for a worthy cause and all, should get some play.

So here’s a message from Share Our Strength:

Share Our Strength has launched a brand new campaign to raise funds to help end childhood hunger. “Operation No Kid Hungry” responds to President-elect Obama’s call to action to end childhood hunger by 2015.

Share Our Strength has partnered with AT&T to offer two great ways that you
can support and participate in “Operation No Kid Hungry”:

1. Donate by text: Text “SHARE” to 20222 on your mobile device to donate $5. AT&T will match all text donations up to $100,000. Help us meet this challenge grant! Find out more.

2. Hold a food drive: Beginning January 19th, a national day of community service, help feed those in need by holding your own community food drive. Visit our site to find a food bank and a list of the most needed nutritious foods.

For more information about “Operation No Kid Hungry” and how you can help
end childhood hunger, visit Share Our Strength.

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by BS

Why Do I Always Fall for the Weird Ones?

I have a problem. I literally cannot go to a grocery store that has a decent produce section without picking up some out-there fruit or vegetable, from delicious monsters to ridiculous mini-kiwis. I’m perfectly happy with regular old oranges and zucchinis, but when I see something weird, I think “I just have to get that so I can blog about it,” whether it looks good or not. So enter cranberry beans.

I picked up these weirdos at the Brooklyn Fairway even though I had no idea what the eff they were. A cranberry plant cross-bred with green beans or something like that I assumed. Actually it turns out cranberry beans, or borlotti, actually aren’t like either. They’re just cranberry-colored, not cranberry-flavored, and they’re more like a lima bean or cannellini than a green bean. So good thing I actually did a little research, because I was all ready to just steam and sautee these things up like green beans, but according to the Internets, that would not work.

Instead, you have to shell them and cook the beans, not the whole pod. Take a look inside: