Category: Me

  • Snack Time

    While I was swimming last week I came to the realization that my daily snack between lunch and dinner hits pretty much all the food groups. I usually have some afternoon tea with milk (dairy – check!), a couple servings of whatever fruit we happen to have at the house (fruit/veggie – check!), and peanut-butter…

  • New dishes I cooked in Nov 2018

    New dishes I cooked in Nov 2018

    The biggest success of the new dishes in Nov 2018 was the grilled chicken fajitas. We already had a recipe we often used for grilled chicken fajitas, but I wanted to stretch out and used the recipe from America’s Test Kitchen Mexican Recipes book. The biggest disappointment was the Georgian Chicken Soup (Chikhirtma). It was…

  • New Dishes I cooked in Oct 2018

    New Dishes I cooked in Oct 2018

    Yeah, I’m a bit late to this, but I just finished up with my October photos.

  • Have you ever found something like this on your grill?

    Have you ever found something like this on your grill?

    Back in October I went to BBQ and was shocked to see something moving. When I opened the grill all the way, I saw: Somehow, even with the lid closed and the cover on, the mouse had ripped off bits of my charcoal bag to climb into here and make a nest. And it also…

  • Food I cooked for the First time in September

    Food I cooked for the First time in September

    In September I tried out four new recipes. The grilled breakfast quesadillas were surprisingly great. An egg is cracked into a ring of cheese and topped with grilled bacon and cilantro. The cauliflower gratin was WAY too rich for just Danielle and I to finish it. But I could see it working well for a…

  • 2018 Cooking Update

    2018 Cooking Update

    It’s been 2.5 years since I discovered Amazingribs.com and Meathead when I was trying to figure out why my BBQ wasn’t as good as the best BBQ joints I’d visited. Last year I ordered the 2016 and 2017 Annuals from Cook’s Illustrated and Cook’s Country as well as getting into Chris Kimball’s spin-off Milk Street.…

  • New Food I cooked in August

  • Garden Report 2018

    Garden Report 2018

    We’ve been growing plants and herbs at the house for a few years now (but not as many as I wish we had in retrospect). But, as far as I could find with a cursory search, I’d never done an end of summer summary of how the growing season went for us. I know there…

  • New dishes I cooked in July

  • Fashion continues to baffle

    Throughout history how many kids have been made fun of for having obviously patched jeans/pants. Now they sell these for $50? Ridiculous.

  • My CHILDHOOD!

    I think it’s hilarious that they way they’re capitalizing on my nostalgia for computer games is by turning them into card games.

  • New Food I Cooked in June 2018

    Just a small image gallery of food I tried cooking for the first time in June.

  • Thunderbird Chicken Scratch

    Thunderbird Chicken Scratch

    Last time I was in Florida my mom took me to a specialty BBQ store, Just Grillin, off of Dale Mabry in Carrollwood. I didn’t know such places existed. I thought everyone just bought their grills at a hardware store, Amazon, or direct from the company. It was a pretty great to be able to…

  • Some Self-Portraits from Sept 2017

    I had been experimenting with a Van Dyke and I would soon be shaving it off, so I took a few self-portraits with the facial hair. First a straight-forward one: Then I couldn’t decide between a high key (which I rarely do) or a straight-forward black and white, so here are both:  

  • Steakhouse Burgers

    Steakhouse Burgers

    Continuing my summer of learning to cook new dishes, I decided to tackle steakhouse burgers. I’d already mastered diner burgers, so I wanted to work on these. I didn’t follow Meathead’s directions 100% in that I didn’t create ground beef out of a nice cut of meat. But I did follow his recipe for using…