Tomatilla!

Whew! I’m pretty busy at the moment. We are going on vacation in a few days and I also now have a fair amount of consulting work and I have to put the last finishing touches (connectors to the drain system) on the gutters and add a seat belt to our camper van. Plus there [...]

(but not from me!)

The inventively named and executed Food Porn Watch has added Tomatilla! to its list of watched sites. They hourly scan through a whole slew of good food writing sites and update a list of who has updated and when. It is a good way of tracking a whole bunch of top-notch food [...]

Wow, these events are coming thick and fast! It seems like just a few days ago that it was rice we were covering. Now this time around it is fish – and I am caught unprepared (ie I didn’t go scouting around for a lovely piece of fresh fish worthy of this wonderful occasion). So [...]

I’m a skinflint at heart: a cheeseparer (in every sense!), a cheapskate, a tightwad. I like coming in under budget – in everything. It’s one reason I like places like Trader Joe’s where you can get relatively high quality, high-end foodstuffs for relatively low prices. It’s why I also like ramen noodles (but I throw [...]

Now that I am actively looking for work again, I have been exploring all kinds of avenues to find the kind of job I want (in charge of editorial/content at a moderate to large company – particularly their website). I have been looking at business networking websites – kind of like Friendster but specifically for [...]

We finally got the weather we’ve been expecting/dreading all Spring and early Summer – our normal weather – the dreaded over the hills heat. It was 94 yesterday and a bit humid and the sun felt just like the giant scorching ball of flaming gases that it essentially is.

Up until now it has been almost [...]

I finally got around to starting to add some of the other good food-related sites that I recommend. They are in the Links section in the left hand navigation bar and I am using Blogrolling to manage them for now – that may change…

I will try to keep the list to only the sites that [...]

There are a whole lot of trite sayings that apply to this. ‘You can learn something new every day.”The naivete of children lets them try things others wouldn’t.’ Etc.

But I would never ever have tried this and am still strangely reluctant even though it makes perfect sense. We had some left over popcorn from last [...]

I have been making a lot of simple pizzas lately for the kids’ lunch and fo parts of meals at other times. Over the past few years I have come to a realization that less is most definitely more when it comes to pizza. I now make one or two smallish pizzas that have very [...]