I have been remiss in posting. “After examining your conscience and telling God of your sorrow, go into the confessional. You may kneel at the screen or sit to talk face-to-face with the priest. Begin your confession with the sign of the cross, “In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of [...]
Read more →I am happy to report that I am out of my cooking slump! Unfortunately, some of my daft kitchen skills must have atrophied while I was sippin’ boozeshakes instead of cooking; the past week has been fraught with kitchen fails of epic proportions, as they say on the interwebs. Luckily, I only ruined one dish. [...]
Read more →Recently, my cooking slumped. I slouch around the kitchen, exhausted after work; I rely on old standards and My Steady Gentleman Caller. Dishes pose an existential crisis. The majority of interesting foodstuffs coming out of the kitchen result from the efforts of My Gentleman, and aside from breaking in the Kitchen Aid with VBar for [...]
Read more →Check out this amazing article in the NYT style section today on preserving fruit in alcohol rather than canning. The crows do an awful lot of booze-fruit eating in the summertime when we fancy-up our white wines and simple cocktails with a little fruit garnish to be munched on at the end of the drink. [...]
Read more →Ricotta cheese topped with honey and berries. Just right.
Read more →Hello blog, its been a while. After a long journey across the country with my man crow, my cat, and in a strangers car, I’ve arrived in New England. More importantly, I will soon be reunited with the JP crows! I immediately started missing Oakland, and Oakland taco trucks, the second we left California. The [...]
Read more →Paul’s oldest sister, her husband and son were in town this Christmas, whom he hasn’t seen since 2003. Unfortunately I only got to enjoy their company for a few days before and after the holidays as I myself was on the west coast, but when we got the chance to host them for a day [...]
Read more →It has been freakishly cold here for the last week or so, and last night I contemplated turning on the heater. Then I remembered how scary the heater in this apartment is, then I remembered that all I needed to do to warm up the apartment was to do a little baking. I looked over [...]
Read more →Ahhh yes, it is that time of year, my favorite time of year. If only I was in New England to enjoy it! Thanksgiving was a whopping 70 degrees and the Bay Area didn’t seem to find anything wrong with that. However, the Bay did take full advantage of this foody of foodies holidays, and [...]
Read more →The season of perpetual illness is upon us, kicking off this season for Billy is a hefty dose of laryngitis. Who gets that? To commemorate his birthday, the germs of all-hallows-eve have stripped him of his newly renewed (thanks to bilateral endoscopic surgery of the sinuses) voice. How will I nurse this birthday boy back [...]
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