“How’s the blog going?” a friend asked somewhere around post #170 or so.
Great, I replied. My audience is growing. People seem to really like the blog.
“What’s your end game?” the friend asked. More
Post #300
14 May 2013 9 Comments
in Food, Humor, Observations Tags: Attempts in Domesticity, Belle Grove Plantation, Dear Leader, food, food blogs, Gourmandistan, Rachel's Table, Wordpress, writing
Love Thyself
30 Apr 2013 11 Comments
in Cooking Tips, Food, Humor Tags: cooking, dining, food, lunch, Sapporo, sushi, toro, uni, wine
It was a Sunday morning. My wife had taken the kids to church, and I was alone in the house. I spent some time chasing a guinea fowl in the yard, but failing to catch it, returned inside to do the responsible thing: pick up toys and clutter. I hadn’t gotten far into my chores, however, before the kitchen called.
Lunch with myself
Shifting things around in the fridge for inspiration, I remembered some toro and sea urchin I’d purchased at the Japanese market a few days before and hadn’t used yet. With dinner plans for the evening and time running out on the freshness clock, it was now or never. So I got out the short grain rice and began rinsing it. More
Pliny, Deconstructed
26 Feb 2013 15 Comments
in Beverages, Food, Humor Tags: beer, cocktails, drinks, food, Pliny the Elder, Russian River Brewing Co., Sierra Nevada, Stella Artois
The third in the author’s three part series about his all-consuming obsession with locating and purchasing at any cost Russian River Brewing Company’s Pliny the Elder beer.
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Driving home with my big game prize — six bottles of Pliny the Elder — I began contemplating the grand ordeal that had been my barely one-month relationship with the beer.
A few days before, I’d called my favorite wine store, which was listed on the Russian River Brewing Company’s distribution list, but where I’d never actually seen Pliny before. I asked the gentleman if they carried Pliny.
Pliny, crowding out the other beers in my fridge
“We get it sometimes, usually on Tuesdays.” This was a Monday. “The delivery usually comes around 1 p.m. Why don’t you call sometime after that and see if we got any. It sells out fast.” More
Happy National Crab-Stuffed Flounder Day
19 Feb 2013 5 Comments
in Food, Humor Tags: Cherry council, crab, Crab-stuffed flounder, flounder, food, halibut, humor, National food holidays, pizza
Browsing the news items on yahoo.com, I was surprised to discover that today, February 18th, is National Crab-Stuffed Flounder Day.
Can you spot the flounder?
Not only did I not realize it was a holiday, but I’ll admit I didn’t even know people stuffed flounder with crab. Not that I’m against the idea, mind you — I’ve been known to stuff everything from sushi rolls to artichokes with crab. Why not a flounder? More
So Much Beauty In the World
12 Feb 2013 5 Comments
in Food, Observations Tags: American Beauty, food, Manchego cheese, shishito peppers, Van Morrison
It’s one of my favorite quotes from one of my favorite scenes from one of my favorite movies. The kid in “American Beauty” is video-taping a plastic grocery store bag, floating gracefully on a breeze:
“Sometimes there’s so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can’t take it, and my heart is just going to cave in.”
It’s one of my favorite scenes and quotes because I often have moments like that, and always have. I like to call them “God moments.” More
skinny girls & mayonnaise 