05 Oct 2012 6 Comments
in Food, Humor, On the Road Tags: Bodeguito del Medio, camarones, Casa Tres Coronitas, cooking, food, huevos ranchers, margaritas, Mexico, Puerto Vallarta, tequila
The first thing you must let go of at the Casa Tres Coronitas is your need for walls. Because there are few of them, and when Euphracio appears in the morning, many of those fold away into the vistas of the Bay of Banderas.
Sunset on the Bay of Banderas
Because we are in the jungle, the collapsing away of walls means you become integrated with the surrounding nature. More
02 Oct 2012 14 Comments
in On the Road Tags: Casa Tres Coronitas, cooking, food, huevos rancheros, humor, Jalisco, Mexican food, Mexico, Puerto Vallarta
It was two or so years ago, at the preschool silent auction. I may have had a drink or two, I can’t recall. Browsing the yoga classes, crappy wine baskets and tickets to Legoland, I discovered seven nights in a house in Puerto Vallarta. The opening bid was $1,000. The value was $10,000. Nobody had bid, so I figured I’d go ahead and get things rolling. Puerto Vallarta was my favorite town in Mexico, and if I won, it wouldn’t be the worst thing.
I won.
Vista bonita — Casa Tres Coronitas
Fast forward a year. We hadn’t yet claimed our winnings. And once again, there was the week in Puerto Vallarta at the preschool auction. Our friends Nat and Shirley had bid the opening $1,000. Wouldn’t it be nice to have two weeks, I said to my wife. So I bid $1,100. “Stop overbidding us!” Shirley insisted. I agreed, on the condition that we combine our time — after all, the literature said 5,000-feet, two master suites, ample room for children — and go either two consecutive years, or for two weeks. They agreed. More
20 Sep 2012 2 Comments
in Food, Humor, Recipes Tags: chipotle, cooking, food, kettle corn, Miyazaki, popcorn, Popcornopolis, recipes, Tim Burton, umami
I’m currently addicted to Trader Joe’s “Herbs & Spices” popcorn — the perfect snack when I get a potato chip craving and don’t want the fat. But a rather surprising development given my historical indifference to popcorn.
A bowl of wickedly addictive chipotle Mexikettle corn
I’ve never considered myself much of a popcorn guy. It’s fine at the movies, but otherwise something I just never thought about. But every Christmas, my brother Mark, a man of fine taste, gets our family a large tub of three flavors — cheese, kettle and zebra chocolate — from Popcornopolis. And who winds up eating most of it?? More
11 Sep 2012 12 Comments
in Humor, Observations Tags: cooking, fish, food, haiku, humor, poems, poetry, SPAM
Although I have a Master’s degree in creative writing and have been published in various poetry journals, you wouldn’t know it from some of my poetry.
The other night I lay in bed wide awake at 2 a.m., thinking about a poem. I got up and went to the computer. Here’s the poem I wrote:
401K
You contribute
to your 401K
again
and again.
You watch
as your money
earns interest.
* * *
* * *
Often, my silliest poems are about food. More
07 Sep 2012 11 Comments
in Recipes, Video Tags: bacon, breakfast, cooking, Egg McMuffin, food, French toast, recipes, sandwich, smoked salmon
Once, many eons ago, when tweets and clouds were still part of nature, when “kindle” meant to build a fire and men knew not of their brethren’s minute-by-minute status, there was the Egg McMuffin. The prototypical breakfast sandwich, the one that started it all.
French toast bacon breakfast sandwich
In reality, there have probably been breakfast sandwiches for as long as there has been two slices of bread and an egg to put between them. More
skinny girls & mayonnaise 