It was with great sadness that I read of the impending closure of the best restaurant in the world. Many’s the time I’d stop by after work for a couple of fruit-leather beetles and a grilled reindeer heart. That was some good eating. But nothing stays the same in this world, does it? […]
I’ll have the planks, thanks
When I’m not blogging, which is most of the time, I am cooking things on the grill. I do it so much that recently I bought this expensive Weber to replace the cheap piece of crap I got a couple of years ago. Two or three seasons and it was falling apart. Yes, the […]
Casserole. It’s what’s for dinner.
The other night I made a tamale pie for dinner. The recipe came out of a Sunset cookbook, circa 1980. It was pretty good, too, except I forgot to put in the corn. That’s kind of how I roll. It can be quite a simple recipe and yet somehow it ends up one ingredient […]
Give me liberty, and give me dinner
Consumers cut driving but not eating, a new Reuters/Zogby poll shows. This is hardly surprising; forced to choose between feeding their SUVs or themselves, most sane people are going to choose their own pie holes, right? What gets me is the poll’s assumption that the most obvious way to compensate for high gas prices […]