This fall has been a hectic one but included the very fun task of making food for my friend who just had a first baby. Nursing moms (as well as pregnant ladies) are so fun to cook for because they eat a lions share, seem to especially enjoy eating, and really put that food to [...]
This summer I spent a lonely week with a terrible cold. I passed the time watching the first three seasons of Bewitched, the old sixties sitcom. I got through so many episodes because, as the show progressed, I felt like I was getting a different impression of Samantha Stevens than I had ever before (since [...]
This year was big for me in that I had a piece of writing published in print for the first time. Because so much of what I write about here on this blog concerns letting go of a lot of the consumer culture around food, I haven’t been super comfortable with putting up ads, which [...]
We had banked on having leftovers for many days after attending two Thanksgiving dinners (the strategy in visiting different families) and doggie bags from restaurant trips over the weekend when no one felt like cooking. We forgot to factor in how quickly those leftovers would disappear when we had days of people over around lunch [...]
I had always kind of assumed, due to the apparent lack of customers, the Chen’s Garden restaurant on my street was, like the convenience store next to it, a front for more shady dealings. Turns out they are a sweet family making decent take-out just making ends meet. We ravaged the fried rice and mu [...]
a batch of 72 cent fresh pasta, two under-two-dollar sausages and an onion from the store plus beautiful veggies from our family’s garden makes a colorful dinner of nominal cost. These sauteed green beans are a regular dish at family dinners and are super. This was my first attempt and it was pretty fool proof. [...]
