Last Tuesday at this time I was not getting ready for work. I was sleeping. And then I was reading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Later I went for an hour-long bike ride along the beach, followed by wine tasting…
Over the past few years, I've been building my soup repetoire. I've got everything from mulligatawny to chicken & dumplings to albondigas in the line-up, and each fall I start seeking out new recipes to add to the list.…
Have you heard of Wordle? This is exactly the kind of silly internet program that just tickles me to no end. All you do is go to Wordle  and enter in some content, or even just your website's url, and…
This is interesting...a cooking site with a section devoted to telling you not only what you're doing wrong, but also how to do it right. This instructional video from chow.com about how to cook bacon is right on the money,…
I love haiku. It's a poetry form that requires discipline, but only briefly. Like a tiny sudoku or a 24-tile Rubik's cube. Once, during a particularly stressful time at work, my bo ss and I relieved our stress by exchanging…
Maple-Bacon Lollipops. There isn't much I can say about this product that it doesn't say for itself. It's made of maple syrup and bacon. It's pretty much breakfast on a stick. Next Saturday morning, you can serve your family eggs…