We and some of our friends have a tradition to have an Oscar party with good food and watch and kid around and make snide remarks. It used to be our party and held at our house, but when we stopped having a working TV (well, we have a TV but no signal of any kind to...
…which were basically abysmal this week. Clearly all the gay marriages in San Francisco are not only tearing apart my marriage, all the other marriages in America and the rest of the world and destroying the most important institution of civilization, but they...
The reason I started this was primarily to do two things. To make myself write SOMETHING – anything – more often, and also to record some of the better dishes I cooked In the hopes that I would be able to repeat them more accurately at a later date. How...
Which is unusual in California. We’ve had a straight five days of downpour. Last night we had lightning, thunder and hail added on. Every day the creek out back has risen and risen and then topped out just as it hits the first of the two banks. Earlier in the...
Celtic California Stew [California influenced Irish stew derivative with rosemary/sorrel/mint dumplings] For eight people I used three pounds of lamb – from three different cuts – two small shanks, four shoulder chops and a pound of stew meat. Brown the...