18 Oct 2013 20 Comments
in Food, Recipes Tags: ama ebi, cooking, humor, Japanese food, Otter Pops, sashimi, sushi, toro, unagi
Immy digs in
The other day, I was having some tuna toro sashimi for a snack before dinner. As I sat at the dining room table daintily dipping thin slices of fish into soy sauce and wasabi, my 3-year-old daughter, Imogen, approached.
“I have some?” she said. More
01 Oct 2013 4 Comments
in Humor, On the Road, Recipes Tags: Casa Tres Coronitas, chiles relleno, food, huevos rancheros, humor, Jalisco, Mexican cooking, Mexico, mosquitos, Puerto Vallarta
Down here, south of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, where there are iguanas on the rooftops and butterflies in the house, where flowers and rubber trees grow from rock walls and rain gutters and cobblestone streets, where that chirping call you hear from the trees at night is not birds but geckos, where moths are the size of your hand and walls transitory, time takes on a drowsy quality and you get into the rhythm of the tropics and the realities that entails. Some of those realities, like the lush beauty and balmy waters, are lovely. Some, like the mosquitos, are not.
Baja from 30,000 feet
The last time I contemplated myself as meal on this blog was a post I did from Lake Tahoe reflecting on the Donner party. But after our first night of our now annual fall trip to Casa Tres Coronitas in which I received some 15 to 20 bites inside the mosquito netting that surrounded our bed (while my daughter, outside the netting, got that many on her face alone), I find myself considering it again. More
27 Sep 2013 31 Comments
in American Series, Recipes, Starlets, Yoga Students & Quinoa (stories), World's Best Sandwiches Tags: 9/11, 99 Ranch Market, food, humor, IPA, lobster roll, Maine, New England, Old Bay
It was Nat’s idea, and a good one at that.
“Let’s make lobster rolls on Sunday,” he said on Wednesday over margaritas at our house. “Let’s invite ourselves over to the Glynn’s house and go swimming and do it there.” This was my kind of spontaneous inspiration!
Nat would buy the lobsters, I would do the cooking, and they would host. (Coincidentally, as it turned out, our friends, “the Glynn’s” — Aaron and Britt — had been planning on inviting us all over that very day, so they were amenable to the announcement that they would be hosting a party.)
Nat got online to order the crustaceans, and I leapt from my chair. “Hold on, hot dog!” I said, “That’ll cost you $75 in shipping! Have you tried the 99 Ranch Market?” More
24 Sep 2013 19 Comments
in Humor Tags: chickens, chopping, Ernie Demontreux, food, humor, The Art of Manliness, Topanga, Topanga Lumber, wood splitting
Splitting axe with curious chickens
It was a few weeks ago, I guess, that I first began to experience it — feelings of inadequacy as a man.
I was in the kitchen cooking some dainty little dish or other when my pal Ernie stopped by. We hugged and had just began to chat when my wife came out of the back.
“Ernie,” she said, “Can I ask you a couple things?” More
20 Sep 2013 19 Comments
in Good Gadget, Bad Gadget, Humor Tags: bad gadgets, food, gadgets, good gadgets, humor, Jenn the Gadget Girl, kitchen, Sur la Table, tongs
I received a promotional email from Sur la Table. The subject line read, “Jenn’s Gadget Picks”. So I clicked on it, and there smiling at me was a picture of a cute girl that said, “Meet our very own Gadget Girl, Jenn!” And I thought to myself, “Oh no… you didn’t really just create a Jenn the Gadget girl for me to blog about, did you!???”
Jenn.
It was like a gift from the heavens.
If you’ve been following my blog for any period of time, you’ve probably stumbled on one of my many “Good Gadget, Bad Gadget” posts. If not, let me suffice to say that I am a gadget skeptic. More
skinny girls & mayonnaise 