Tomatilla!

There will be a booksigning tonight at Towne Center Books in Pleasanton on 555 Main Street at 7:30PM. Every reader of this blog or any food blog and all guests are cordially invited. Guy Prince of Meathenge will read, sign and cook barbecue! Ellen Ferlazzo of Chronicles of a Curious Cook and CheapCooking.com will bring [...]

The grand list is finally done – we have 50 things that normal people can actually do that are at least as good as the original list. Thank you all contributors! And now for a challenge – read to the end and then try to do some of the things here you have never done [...]

It has been a little while since I came up with something truly original, but I think this one counts. It came about by accident, but oh, what a happy, serendipitous accident!

I have been very busy at work lately and it has also been extremely hot. This has meant that we have been eating cold [...]

[[SIXTH UPDATE - IF YOU HAVEN'T ADDED TO THIS LIST, THEN PLEASE SEE THE COMMENTS AND COME UP WITH AN IDEA WORTHY OF INCLUSION - NOTE THAT I WOULD PREFER TO GET TO 54 OR SO SINCE I'M NOT QUITE SURE ALL THE SUGGESTIONS SO FAR QUITE MAKE THE CUT AS FAR AS TOP EXPERIENCES [...]

Well, we have winners! Sarah, over at The Delicious Life has selected a host of awards in the style of the Golden Globes for all our entries this week! The results are here.

Two Eggs of Lafayette – Act V Scene IV

With sincerest apologies to Old Bill from whom large portions of the following have been lifted straight.

[[To summarize what has gone before - in a terrible mix up the two sisters Amelia and Grace have gone to bed willy-nilly after a Summer's day of gaiety, laughter, talk, [...]

It’s time to round up the Paper Chef entries once again. As usual, the quality of entries is amazingly high and Sarah has a difficult time on her hands coming up with a winner and any other awards she wants. We also got a wave of highly innovative fusion entrants this time around. And I’m [...]

Everything happens when I go on vacation…

Fortunately, my family in London are fine. Better than the last major bombing in London when the IRA went after Harrods and my brother got knocked off his feet on his way home from work (but wasn’t seriously hurt).

I have lived in three cities in my life. Bristol for [...]

For this special holiday edition of the Paper Chef (there must be a holiday of some kind happening near this time no matter WHERE you are) the final ingredients are:

1)Cheddar cheese – any kind but I would recommend avoiding the rubbery mild American kinds and also avoid Keen’s or Montgomery from Neal’s Yard Dairy because [...]

The current ingredient list is:Red wine, cream, cheddar cheese, quinoa, butter, asparagus, cured, aged ham (country not city), lemongrass, spinach, vinegar, sweet potatoes, marshmallows, dried chillies, sausage, dried fruit, olives, berries, regular potatoes, eggplant, summer squash, edible flowers, star anise and shrimp.

Sometime in the next few hours I will perform the exotic and technical procedure [...]