Walking amongst the dead…
The Scariest Skull Ever… For my dear friend Ruth who got married this week. (She’s at the end). Congrats to you both, Chris you got one of the best, treat her well. Ruth, ditto to…
Hearty, Healthy, Wholesome, Whole Wheat 3 ways
I recently acquired a copy of The Breads of France which I’d long ago added to my wishlist, but never received. Cut forward a few years I’ve completely forgotten about this book and one day…
Fashion! Turn to the left, Fashion! Turn to the right, Oooh, fashion!
It’s Fashion Week in NYC and mostly what that means to me is it’s a real pain in the ass to get to my favorite coffee place. This time though there’s something special going on,…
Healthier Eggplant Parmesan
So you love Eggplant Parmesan, but you’re on a diet… Or you can’t have fried foods because of your blood pressure, cholesterol or other Doctor restricted $(#*%#()_ food groups. Here’s an eggplant parmesan that omits…
Stock Options…
If you’re like me and use stocks and broths to enhance the flavor of other foods more often than using them to make a soup you may find yourself, as I do, with boxes of…
Links
So since I can’t eat all the goodness I see in the world, especially in light of recent developments, I’ve decided to start linking up some of the goodness I see out on the web.…
Tomato Sauce Revisited
Every cook changes their recipes, a little tweak here, a pinch of something new there, and before you know it, you’ve rewritten an entire recipe. I first committed my tomato sauce recipe to paper about…
24:21 of Perfect Techno
I’ve always been a big fan of the British Techno band Sunscreem. From their first single “Love U More” from the album “O3” through numerous remixes, over several albums “Change or Die,” “New Dark Times,”…
— Bits & Pieces Of Unfinished Business —
I dream rather vividly, sometimes more so than reality. It’s like everything is AMPED AND WIRED. Every sight, every sound, every moment, beyond high definition. It can be rather disquieting sometimes, nightmares are so terrifying…
Picture This…
So… Back in June I went to see Blondie perform at the Nokia Theatre in Times Square NYC. During the show I snuck out my camera and snapped a few photos which was against the…
The Spy Who Fed Me…
The news is all atwitter the last 24 hours about the late Julia Child’s time in the OSS. It’s not been a secret for a long time that she worked in the OSS in a…
Why Merlene Should Win…
Dear John Chow, I think it’s great that you’re having this contest, and while I would personally love to go I probably can’t get the time off, but I’m entering your contest anyway, and if…
Changes are afoot…
So, you may have noticed, I haven’t exactly posted in a while… There’s a bunch of reasons, some good, some lazy, and some… well life has this way of throwing curve balls at you… I’m…
Sunset Walks At The Louvre
Crazy non-stop action…
I’ve been unable to post since arriving in Paris, because we have been going non-stop. So far I’ve taken close to 1,000 photos, all of which require some amount of editing before I get them…
Look out Paris, here we come…
By the time this posts we’ll be somewhere over the Atlantic. The French being such kind and wonderful people have planned a general strike of the Bus & Rail services for our arrival. We are…
Quiet Time – The calm before the storm
So, I’ve been very, very quiet. I know this. It’s not that I haven’t been cooking, I have. I just haven’t taken time to write up what I’ve been up to. I made a lasagna…
Lamb burger with roasted lemon and Tzatziki
The other day at the store I noticed they had some ground lamb and decided to grab some, figuring I’d make a burger of some sort. I let the idea bubble in my head as…
Spring…
It’s finally arrived where I live, temps are ranging from the mid 50’s to mid 70’s and everything is blooming! Normally this would also mean that I’m stocking up on Flonase, Zyrtec and a handful…
Brioche French Toast
My friend Jill pointed out this morning that due to my last name any toast I make is French toast, so we’re subtitling this recipe “Frenchy French Toast!” Jill also claims to have told me…