DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Picked some Rosa Bianca eggplants from the garden and did a thing. 000
DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I make Portuguese roast chicken at least once a month. Complicated and messy colonialism in one dish. Tried adding mint this time as a minor tweak. 250
DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 27/09/2026A l’il Sunday shrimp sauce piquant. Beer, football, and total escapism for the moment. 010
DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 11/09/2026My fellow political scientists. Do you know what mysteries and delights could be at your finger tips? 000
DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Taken a lot of tries to get Louisiana red beans right. Finally. 030
DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Portuguese roast chicken and college football after heavy yard work and getting fall food garden prepped. Life ain’t great but it can be kind of ok at times. 060
DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 02/09/2026If it’s Wednesday it must be Portuguese caldo verde. 020
DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Happy APSA2026 to all who attend. Please watch out for this uninvited attendee and don’t bring him home with you. 010
DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Sunday gumbo is a nice way to wind down two days of yard work. 000
DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Had a pack of ground lamb, garden eggplant and tossed the two together with onions, garlic, tomato and a lot of random mideast spices (baharat, harissa, something else). I did not expect anything great but it’s very nice. 120
DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Patatas panaderas and grilled black sea bass. Life ain’t great right now but it’s not terrible. 020
DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Do you have a weekly go-to comfort dish? Portuguese roast chicken is becoming mine. Love making enough to share. 010
DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 09/08/2026If I could adopt a water buffalo and take up cheese making, everything in this dish would have been grown or raised by me. Thank God others do the cheese making. Still, one of my better eggplant parms, and i’ve had some epic fails here. 120
DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Patience my friends, patience. Wait for that Yankees series. 000
DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 05/08/2026It’s hot af down here. Gaspacho time. This is just the base. 020
DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Breaks me every time I listen but the reasons are intensely personal. 010
DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Scallops seared, sauce made with butter, jamon iberico, shallots, parsley, smoked paprika, sherry. Might be ok. 030
DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Efe rio and a heart stopping exciting match. A damn nice Saturday. 010
DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Trying out hot climate greens. Brazilian spinach or sissoo. Nice crunch, rather mild. But healthy I guess and grows like a weed here. A keeper. 100
DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Rather inauthentic chicken tagine. I have no tagine alas, so doing my best. 000
DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 01/07/2026If you see old vine Carignan from Lebanon, buy it. They make an unloved grape wonderful. 110
DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 27/06/2026My Portuguese ancestry toasting Cape Verde tonight. Onward and upward! 000
DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 27/05/2026The pride of Connecticut, Jimmy Nardello Sweet Italian peppers. These are huge. They’ll finish reddening and then be dried. 1311
DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Portuguese roast chicken over onions, peppers and taters. Marinated in Portuguese allspice and pimenta moida at work here. And probably no small amount of colonial suffering as well. My people’s comfort food comes with…some unfun stuff. 011
DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Marinating something for tomorrow with the great Portuguese condiment. 000
DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Succotash, with most items from garden. One of the best Southern things. 010
DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Pickled/preserved some lemons, new territory for me. We’ll see how this goes. 110
DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Long busy day calls for chicken sauce piquante. Tomatoes, celery, onions, garlic and herbs from garden. Chicken, Manda sausage from Baton Rouge, and creole seasoning, not from my garden. 010
DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 09/05/2026This came up feral in the garden and I don’t know what the hell it is. My very uneducated guess is cushaw squash. At least 5 fruit so far. 000
DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Let the great rite of summer begin: the tomato inundation. 020
DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Working through a roast chicken in a leek, fennel, tarragon, lots of other herbs, cream and mustard and wine and lemon juice. It might be British, French or both. Leaning towards British based on my recipe research but not a hill I would die on. 000
DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Portuguese caldo verde. Being part Azorean I grew up with the *rustic* island version. For this I grew the *authentic* Tronchuda kale favored on the mainland to see if it made a difference. Less…”kaley” I guess? 160