Cooking, Life, Books and Words — sometimes with recipes.
(but not from me!) The inventively named and executed Food Porn Watch has added Tomatilla! to its list of watched sites. They hourly scan through a whole slew of good food writing sites and update…
Wow, these events are coming thick and fast! It seems like just a few days ago that it was rice we were covering. Now this time around it is fish – and I am caught…
I’m a skinflint at heart: a cheeseparer (in every sense!), a cheapskate, a tightwad. I like coming in under budget – in everything. It’s one reason I like places like Trader Joe’s where you can…
Now that I am actively looking for work again, I have been exploring all kinds of avenues to find the kind of job I want (in charge of editorial/content at a moderate to large company…
We finally got the weather we’ve been expecting/dreading all Spring and early Summer – our normal weather – the dreaded over the hills heat. It was 94 yesterday and a bit humid and the sun…
I finally got around to starting to add some of the other good food-related sites that I recommend. They are in the Links section in the left hand navigation bar and I am using Blogrolling…
There are a whole lot of trite sayings that apply to this. ‘You can learn something new every day.”The naivete of children lets them try things others wouldn’t.’ Etc. But I would never ever have…
I have been making a lot of simple pizzas lately for the kids’ lunch and fo parts of meals at other times. Over the past few years I have come to a realization that less…
Cherry Scones (OK, from one of those Sticky Fingers mixes) are in the oven. Coffee is made (blend of Peet’s Aged Sumatran and an Ethiopian Yergachafe from Whole Paycheck) and being drunk. Tools are out,…
It has been a rough week. I’m not really over the job loss and am already having to face up to the hard realities of living in the Bay Area with a mortgage and two…