While I might be a sucker for a deal, I’m picky as hell. That’s why I sorted through all the packages of tuna in the seafood case before settling on one that was good enough for me. I like tuna steaks to have a nice dense reddish color to them, I don’t like the washed …
It’s possible I mentioned before that I got the cutest little gas grill on the planet – it sits just outside my back door on a concrete pad that acts as though it was made for back door grilling. I am quite enchanted with the convenience of it – the other day, I switched it …
In spite of the shocking amount of nonsense information I keep in my head – the chord sequence to Roxy Music’s More than This, a good deal of the poetry in Alice in Wonderland, many, many one liners from The Simpsons, and a warehouse of shoe boxes stuffed with mental images from my travels – …
I’m a sucker for an exotic cookbook. Our stunning variety of ethnic grocery stores means that here in Seattle, we are able to fearlessly ferret out the bizarre and nonstandard ingredients. And our diverse community means that even the local Safeway has quite an impressive selection of ethnic foods. A good thing, diversity is. I’m …
Leeks are a tricky vegetable. I do like them but I’m not always sure what to do with them. I had them oven roasted at my friend’s place in Tuscany – that was damn fine – and in vichyssoises (leek and potato soup) but I rarely cook them at home. We received a bundle of …
My fondness for far away places means that my comfort foods are a bizarre smorgasbord of Indian and Asian style curries, European baked goods, taco truck carbohydrates, and mundane supermarket standards like Crackin’ Oat Bran (the crack cocaine of cereals), mac and cheese, and Snyder’s pretzels. Mr NEV, bless him, has come to embrace the …