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Circle and Almost Circle #16

I’m not certain if Circle is venturing into the underworld in an Orpheistic quest to find peace for his suffocated love, or if it’s just an extension of my classical obsessions at the time. There wasn’t enough space in the CAC panels to do actual plot exposition. Plus I was working to deconstruct that whole

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Frozen Coconut Banana Leaves Cake

Sometimes you have a serious sweet tooth late at night and you go to the freezer to find the makings of whatever dessert had previously been too much of a hassle for you to bother with previously. My freezer just happened to have some frozen banana-slash-rice-pudding with a secret core of red beans and wrapped

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Making Alambre at Home

Julia, my food frakking deputy, and I are big fans of the alambre plate at Taqueria Jaliscienses. It’s essentially what the Pizza Hut meat lover’s pizza would have been if those cowards had just had the guts to remove everything that wasn’t meat. It’s normally a steaming pile of fajita meat with bacon and sausage

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Circle and Almost Circle #13

This is my favorite episode in this series. Circle hasn’t been present for a while, I’d been focusing on the imperfections of Almost Circle, forgetting that the perfection of Circle can be almost as tragic. Also, it makes one wonder what happened to that turtle from earlier.

Duck Feet Din Ho BBQ Austin

Duck Feet at Din Ho

Whenever I’m eating at an authentic Chinese restaurant, one such as the Din Ho Chinese Barbecue up on Austin’s mid-northish side, I am faced with the dilemma of choosing between ordering a dish that I know will be delicious or one which I know will be interesting. Generally I choose the interesting option. During previous

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Giant marshmallow

I bought this bag of giant marshmallows from the supermarket. Because they were, you know, giant. But there was a value added aspect to them as well. Some of the marshmallows were strawberry flavored, and some were vanilla. Keeping in mind that actual strawberries taste like artificial strawberry flavoring the same way that actual cats

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