Remember way back when I made my national citrus fruit appeal? Actually I think it was a global citrus fruit appeal. Well either way it was epic, okay?Remember when I then preserved some Meyer lemons for a rainy day?Well today is that rainy day.Even though it's sunny.It's high time we use those preserved lemons, don't…
Grandma P. is in rehabilitation. She's slowly getting her movement back. But she is not pleased with the situation. She said, "Well I guess you're learning a lot about life, aren't you." Then she said, "I'm learning a lot about life too."One of the last things we made together was tofu mayonnaise. She really loves…
After our Arctic morning on the river, contending with Mother Nature's bad, bad mood, we had lunch on the shore.This kind of shore lunch requires some acrobatics. It's also a time to keep things really, really simple. Simple.Keep things simple. Okay?Simple.
The first thing you'll need is a sharp knife. Which I didn't have.The second…
These are hell's chicken wings.My darling skillet produced the hottest bits of food I've eaten in quite some time.My mouth still hurts.Surgeon Generals Warning: They will make you have psychedelic dreams. For example, after I ate these chicken wings I dreamt three different short stories that went like this:1. My brother committed a murder in…
On Friday when I was showing you my adventures in thin crust pizza, one of the ingredients that I unloaded onto the crust was caramelized onions. And then it dawned on me that maybe not everyone knows how to caramelize onions...Do you know how? Do you want a quick little demo? Hm...I'll take your silence…
I've been keeping secrets from you.Well, just one wonderful secret.This is the woman who is responsible for my love of food:She took care of me when I was young. She would pick me up from nursery school and bring me to her house and sit me at the end of her long wooden table so…
Guess what this is...I'll give you one clue...It's not a leotard.Okay, I'll give you another clue...Now guess?Okay, okay, geez, one more clue!Red quinoa!!!If you've never heard of it before, you're not alone. It's been slowly rising to stardom recently but hasn't reached full celebrity status yet. It's a grain-like crop grown for its edible seeds.…
Tenderloin. Is there anything better?Please name it.Go ahead... I'll wait....... .... ....That's what I thought.Tenderloin...the stuff of Gods.There were dozens of deer aging in Paul Michael's snazzy cement hanging room at deer camp. And he let me go in and pull the tenderloins from as many as I wanted. Christmas come early, I say! I…
Black-eyed peas are one of those things I only think about on December 31st when I superstitiously rush around looking for them. You see, it was ingrained in me from the time I was a small plump infant, that this is the thing you're supposed to eat on New Year's Day for good luck. I've…