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Afternoon Snacks
Links and drinks to hunker down with, on today's Afternoon Snacks: Hurricane Edition.
Afternoon Snacks
By now, you've probably seen here and on Twitter plenty of updates on what's open and what's not around the city. But you might just want to hole up where it's safe and dry: pour yourself a drink, and get in some cooking and internet-browsing while you still can!
One fun thing about the storm is browsing Twitter and Instagram for a peak at what some of our favorite chefs get up to on a compulsory rainy day off. For example, Stateside's George Sabatino is working on a chicken and kale soup, and it looks like Rich Landau of Vedge has some veggie pho in the offing. (Meanwhile, our own Adam Erace is posting mac and cheese porn.)
As far as drinks go, the obvious choice is a Hurricane, but that sounds a little elaborate to us. Plus, if your power goes out, you won't want to keep opening up the fridge to grab all of those fruit juices.
Red wine, of course, is the go-to bad weather drink for those in the know: no refrigeration, ice, or complicated fumbling around in the dark required. But if you get bored—or if you stocked up on the cheap stuff in a panic and it could use some help—there's room for experimentation. You could try mixing up some kalimotxo (a 50-50 mix of wine and Coke), though that does benefit from ice if you can spare it. And while there's always sangria, a simpler treat would be to simply macerate some fruit in wine (here's a recipe, though you could do something with apples or pears or whatever fruit you've got sitting around). Of course, if you're feeling chilly, nothing can beat mulled wine.
Finally, this has no earthly thing to do with food, but this archival footage of old storms is pretty incredible. Something to watch while you curl upon the couch with a mug of mulled wine and wait Sandy out.
- barstool scientist
- Booze
- Brew Revue
- Chef Salad
- Closings
- Coffee
- Contests
- Dealage
- Dirty Dishes
- Don't Front
- Eat This Immediately
- Field Trip
- Food and Art
- Food and Holidays
- Food and Movies
- Food and Music
- Food and Politics
- Food and Sports
- Food and Web
- Food Blogs
- Food Books
- Food Events
- Food News
- Food TV
- Gifted
- Happy Hour Hopper
- How-To
- In Print
- Interview
- Meal Ticket
- Menu Time
- Not So Quickfire
- Notes from the Weekend
- On Wheels
- Openings
- Patio Drinking
- Philly Beer Week 2010
- Photos
- Private Chef POV
- Product Placement
- Recipes
- Snack Time
- Stiff Drank
- SUPPER
- Tea
- Testing
- Ticket Stubs
- Top Chef
- Vegan
- Vegetarian
- Video
- Weekly Candy
- Weird Regional Foods
- We're Here to Help
- Where'd We Eat?
- Drew Lazor's Ill-Advised Rant Factory
- Pregame
- Ill-Advised Ranting
- The Week Without Meat
- Philly Beer Week 2009
- Real Big
- Where'd I Eat Last Night?
- Top Chef Masters
- The Good Word
- Next Iron Chef
- Arterial Terrorism
- Food and Radio
