Tomatilla!

What a weekend!

We had a busy Saturday. The kids’ soccer team kept up its string of games without loss. We had a fancy dinner cooked by a chef who is thinking about writing a cookbook and is trying out ideas on our friends and we got to go eat as well. It was very good [...]

Youch! Maybe I should have been a contractor. After all, I DO tend to be sloppy, slow to finish and think I can do just about anything. Anyway, I am putting up new fencing all around our house and today I went and dropped a bundle on grapestakes, fence posts, rails, etc. I couldn’t believe [...]

It’s been a strange week. I’ve been negotiating about the value of my now-totaled Camry. It’s still drivable, but since you can’t open the rear passenger doors any more and you can’t close the trunk anymore, there is clearly a lot wrong with it. Perhaps not the $6000 the bodyshop quoted to fix it, but [...]

Now that I have a real site it is time to celebrate its name properly by introducing my recipe for salsa. Not surprisingly, this involves tomatillas.

Salsa Cruda

You need a food processor or an electric chopper or some way to chop things up over a bowl so you don’t lose the juices. Standard recipe involves two [...]

Wow! This stuff really works! And it was easy! And cheap. Now I have to put in a plug for my ISP. ICDsoft provided me with domain name registration and hosting for a YEAR with decent storage and lots of control options for $65 for everything. That’s all of it – getting the domain, registering [...]

I’m in the process of getting hosting and a real URL! www.tomatilla.com! Hopefully within two days I will have this site and my other sites hosted from there and I can start adding in images and other fun stuff!

I added titles. Seemed like a good idea. The biggest hit in terms of cooking was on last Friday when I made an impulse purchase – sand dabs – and decided to surprise the kids with homemade fish and chips. It was a big success. I got told that it was the best meal I [...]

It’s funny. I kind of liked Schwarzenegger (at least until the sexual predator stuff came out) but how can anyone think he could make a decent administrator for the fifth (sixth now?) largest economy in the world? The most amazing thing about how he got elected however is the unbelievable lack of depth that has [...]

Ugh! Schwarzenegger for Governor. Time to move.

A bit of a food weekend. I got on a roll, thought I’d be enthusiastic. Little good it did me.

Anyway, I did come up with a KILLER recipe. We had a lot of really nice heirloom tomatoes laying around from our organic veggie box (we’ve been getting it for almost TEN years (with a two [...]