Tomatilla!

Then go to Chuck’s blog, Looka, at the Gumbo Pages. Chuck normally mixes food, cocktails, politics, music and a little essence of most everything else together into a wonderful ‘gumbo’ or perhaps ‘cocktail’ of interesting reading. But lately, in response to important events in America, he has been leaning on the politics a little harder. [...]

(Or making lunch in fifteen minutes)

Sometimes, even when you’re in a hurry, your subconscious can dig out something amazing and throw it forward to your conscious mind at just the right time to make use of it.

We have a pretty large pantry at home what with all the cooking that goes on. We also have [...]

As some of you may have noticed, I have been a little distracted lately. There are a lot of reasons for that but one of them is a big project I have been working on for the past three months that is finally ready to be made a little more public. I am starting a [...]

Well, for IMBB #8, the spirited edition, I fell at the last hurdle. I am posting this a day late despite getting the cooking done well in time.

But sometimes that’s just the best you can do. Among the delaying factors were the first rain of the season, which means tearing out of the house at [...]

Well, I started to enter in the 50 or so other food sites I read moderately frequently. I was using Blogrolling (a service) as a tool but it has stopped working. I have asked them about it, but if nothing happens I will have to go back to maintaining it by hand – ugh! So [...]

I am beginning to feel overwhelmed. The publishing venture is picking up steam. I have a slight uptick in the amount of work I SHOULD be doing for my contract employer (but I am not quite getting to it) and we went on a trip with the kids and we have visitors both days this [...]

I’m off for the long weekend – Jan has to stay behind and work – with the kids to stay at a friend’s cabin in the Sierras. No snow, but probably cool to cold so we will be going hiking. But I decided to bring stuff to teach the kids some cooking skills. On the [...]