Cooking, Life, Books and Words — sometimes with recipes.
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…
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…
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…
[[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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…