Cooking, Life, Books and Words — sometimes with recipes.
For the first time since I started taking part in IMBB I am forced to declare failure. I DID in fact make a terrine and I DID in fact serve it to sixty people as…
No stereotyping intended – at least two of them did get drunk. I should explain. Forthe last couple of years, our local recreational soccer league for kids has hired a team of young scotsmen (and…
How’s that for a multi-subject post! Let’s do the terrines first. Derrick of An Obsession With Food is hosting the next IMBB event. The subject is terrines. I have never actually made a terrine before…
Then go to Chuck’s blog, Looka, at the Gumbo Pages. Chuck normally mixes food, cocktails, politics, music and a little essence of most everything else together into a wonderful ‘gumbo’ or perhaps ‘cocktail’ of interesting…
(Or making lunch in fifteen minutes) Sometimes, even when you’re in a hurry, your subconscious can dig out something amazing and throw it forward to your conscious mind at just the right time to make…
As some of you may have noticed, I have been a little distracted lately. There are a lot of reasons for that but one of them is a big project I have been working on…
Well, for IMBB #8, the spirited edition, I fell at the last hurdle. I am posting this a day late despite getting the cooking done well in time. But sometimes that’s just the best you…
Well, I started to enter in the 50 or so other food sites I read moderately frequently. I was using Blogrolling (a service) as a tool but it has stopped working. I have asked them…
I am beginning to feel overwhelmed. The publishing venture is picking up steam. I have a slight uptick in the amount of work I SHOULD be doing for my contract employer (but I am not…
I’m off for the long weekend – Jan has to stay behind and work – with the kids to stay at a friend’s cabin in the Sierras. No snow, but probably cool to cold so…