Every day after work I get to make a choice: I can take the elevator up to the fourth floor of the parking garage, or I can take the stairs. Some days, I’m too tired or my knees hurt or my computer bag just feels too damn heavy and I decide to take the elevator. [...]
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Cooking methods: boil, steam, sauté
Here’s a dialogue I keep having with myself: You haven’t given them any recipes Who needs recipes? Your readers might like one or two. You know, that’s why people come to a cooking blog. For recipes. They shouldn’t. No? No. Besides, I’m not very good with recipes. Mine are always slap-dash and imprecise. Then why [...]
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How to find time to cook? Make the commitment
The other day I unleashed a string of obscenities on my Tumblr blog after reading “How Do Working Parents Do It?” by Pete Wells. He’s a columnist, a working dad, and I called him a bad person. Given some thought, I don’t think Mr. Wells is a bad person. I don’t know him. But little [...]
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The milk shake is just a milk shake
I work pretty close to a Steak ‘n Shake. I also think their shakes are delicious. Sometimes on slow afternoons, I’ll go buy one and drink (eat?) it. Submitted without further ado, a recent exchange with a friend of mine via IM*: Me: I think I’m going to get a milkshake Him: Steak n Shake? [...]
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A new sojourn
“When we no longer have good cooking in the world, we will have no literature, nor high and sharp intelligence, nor friendly gatherings, nor social harmony.” – Marie-Antoine Caréme, Chef (1784 – 1833)1 I started this blog just over two years ago with no idea what I was doing or where it would go. For [...]
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