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Musings on Life and Food
Unfortunately, I don't necessarily have a life plan. Or a dinner plan for that matter. Luckily for me, things work out most of the time.
I'll be posting some musings on food, eating, and life in general. Hopefully, some of it's interesting.
I'm not a recipe guy, at least not in the cookbook kind of way. I'm more of a "season to taste" or "add enough olive oil" kind of guy, so anything I post is a rough approximation. It may be too much or too little. I suggest tasting along the way. Kind of like life.
I've been in a bit of a slump, I must confess. Not that I haven't been cooking, mind you: I just haven't been cooking exciting stuff. I blame my wife, of course. Her schedule has been a bit crazy as of late, which means getting home around (read full article)
[/pun] We have a lack of willpower chez nous. Every time we go grocery shopping, we give ourselves a little pep talk about how we're not going to spend a lot of money.And then we go to our crack dealer, Central Market.We'd be much better at this gam (read full article)
If you're from Texas, you know that tamales are considered one of the important food groups, right behind Bar-B-Que. For those of you that aren't from Texas, tamales are traditional south-american fare, often made with beans or pork. They are wrappe (read full article)
Sometimes, we get a wild hare up our you-know-whats and feel a sudden, inexplicable need to cook an involved dinner. This happened to us Friday on the way home from work, so we called some friends and invited them to dinner Saturday.The thing that w (read full article)
Not to put too fine a point on it, but I'm glad this year is about over. As Roseanne Roseannadanna would say, "if it's not one thing, it's another."To help make it through the season, Jenn and I took off most of Thanksgiving week. Not only did it ea (read full article)
I'm not a huge football fan, at least not since Jerry Jones became the owner of the Cowboys. Perhaps it's better to say that I'm not a big Cowboys fan, but let's face it, if you're not a Cowboys fan, you can't really enjoy football. Even so, at leas (read full article)
One day, when we've got enough time, I'll tell you the story of the best lobster ever, an epic tale of the quest to find grilled lobster in Barbuda. But today, we don't have that kind of time. Seriously.I will tell you, however, that the idea of gri (read full article)
Two of our best friends, JD and Susan, have a J122 that they keep on Lake Texoma. For about half the year, we race. The other half, JD and Susan are happy to have us up for a night or a weekend.The only cost of admission is (i) food and (ii) drink. (read full article)
There's a song that says "God Bless Texas." That is true on soooo many levels, the least of which is that Texas is next to Mexico."So what?" you may ask. "So are California and Arizona."Yes, but have you ever heard of "Cal-Mex," or "Mex-izona"? Didn (read full article)
For our anniversary, Jenn and I ate at Nana in Dallas. I'm glad we did: the chef was very experimental, and we had a lot of flavors we wouldn't normally have tried. I don't think I'll ever go back.A problem that a lot of chefs have is that they focu (read full article)
Almost 20 years ago, I had fresh scallops in Peru. They were served on the half shell with the roe still intact. At the time, I didn't appreciate just how good they were.For my 40th birthday, my wife ordered me fresh scallops from a local seafood ma (read full article)
Do you remember your "first?" It doesn't really matter the first of what...your first car, first kiss, first apartment...chances are you remember your first fondly. In some cases, your first may even outshine anything subsequent.My first car is that (read full article)
In my never-ending quest to rid myself of the freezer full of pork I bought, I'm having to find more and more willing victems...errr...guinea pigs...errr...dinner guests.This Friday, we cooked dinner for our friend, Donna, for her birthday. Donna's (read full article)
The rest of world calls them lamb chops, but I just like the sound of lambsicles. Plus it accurately describes how you eat them.I've been making these for years, but I prefer to serve them by themselves.However some people seem to think that you ca (read full article)
My family is from the south, and my folks grew up in the post-depression era. Maybe that's why they always have a full pantry and freezer. Whatever the reason, I inherited that habit, and if I find a good deal at the store, I can't resist it.Which i (read full article)
I'm going to let you in on a little secret: hungarian wax peppers and banana peppers look very similar.Another fact with which you may not be familiar: the hungarian wax pepper has about the same scoville scale rating as a jalapeno, whereas the bana (read full article)
We try, once a year, to charter a boat with another couple and sail around the Caribbean. Jenn and I typically do food duty. Actually, I typically do food duty, and Jenn does drink and bikini duty. But once a trip she does cook a meal.At the begin (read full article)
Last night my wife decided she was tired of steak. Instead, she wanted halibut ... until we got to the store. Then, though she still wanted seafood, she didn't want any fish. That leaves crustaceans and bivalves, we just had shrimp the other nigh (read full article)
Most of the time when I go to the store to pick something up for dinner, I have no idea what is going to end up on the table. I like to browse around, see what catches my eye, and come up with something on the spot. It's fun. It also turns a shoppin (read full article)
We really like Ethiopian food. In case you're not familiar with it, Ethiopian has a lot of stews and is eaten with a bread called injera (think of a sourdough pancake). It's spicy and quite flavorfulOnce upon a long time ago, we got an Ethiopian c (read full article)
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