Cooking, Life, Books and Words — sometimes with recipes.
Anyone who dropped by in the past five hours or so (afternoon to early evening PST) would have seen a dizzying array of strange and broken designs for this site as I experimented away with…
Unfortunately the food has nothing to do with any parallel in my life. It would be nice to be down in Cuba with the warm winter sun and the slower pace of life and the…
What do they have in common? The bane of my existence? I hate both of them? Well no. Actually they have nothing in common. I like vegetarians and was one for nine years until I…
Trader Joe’s has been making and selling fresh pizza dough for some time and we’ve been buying it for some time – mostly for making grill bread during barbecues. But sometimes I stretch the boundaries…
Even in the bright flouorescent lights of my living room The miserable grey of the depressing winter sky Seeps through the windows and around the doors And the icy depression of winter slowly freezes life.…
I’m not really a fan of brunch. It is hard to wait that long to eat and then if you do you eat too much. If you have a quickie breakfast first then you still…
To you all. I know it is well past the official new year, but since we were stuck in the snow in the dark at the official time, it didn’t feel real until yesterday when…
We just got back from the mountains. It snowed heavily, we went skiing, we lost power and we got snowed in. So it was all very eventful. But we got out again safely, if a…
Mean one thing. Too much water and problems with drains. It never seems to fail. Quick menu update. Christmas dinner was only fair. I made a roast capon with lemon, rosemary and garlic. On the…
We’ve been very busy. It is hard to remember everything that has happened and even everything I cooked… I guess I should start with the very first of the ramen noodle recipes. Grace and I…