It's funny that it took this long. But for a variety of reasons, it wasn't until a couple of weeks ago that my husband and I played in our first poker tournament. We go to Vegas pretty frequently and have been invited to join in poker tournaments down there now and then, [...]
There are times when a lousy memory comes in handy. When watching a movie I've seen before, for instance, it can be like watching it for the first time again! I'm still moved-surprised-delighted-shocked by the action on the screen and twists in the plot because I've forgotten many of those details [...]
I shouldn't be at all surprised. In fact, I expected to be proven wrong. And, honestly, I'm kind of happy about it. One of the recipes in my book is no great revelation, aside from perhaps the new game-friendly presentation. Those small loaves of cocktail bread--long and slender, producing slices [...]
It's great to have friends in the food business. My pal Lisa Dupar, the doyenne behind Lisa Dupar Catering, clued me in to this web site, Pick On Us, which is a crazy candy store of game night goods. The site has a seemingly endless array of picks, skewers, and [...]
I don't know exactly what spurred the urge, but sometime early December I got a serious case of waffles-on-the-brain. And it suddenly became clear that waffles aren't on nearly as many menus as you might hope when suffering such an affliction. Not that I go out for breakfast all that [...]
He was such a gem of a man. Monsieur Fernand Chambrette. A gentleman of small stature, big heart, giant talents and not a small dose of the devilish imp that will be so greatly missed by those who knew and loved him, and certainly those who learned from him. At [...]
This morning's breakfast was a particularly good eye-opener, a nice change of pace from my standard fare (english muffin with peanut butter, yogurt with Grape Nuts, bowl of cereal). Today, I slipped a piece of cornbread from the pan in which I'd baked it yesterday. I cut the piece in [...]
A few months ago a walking buddy mentioned that she'd just checked out my blog for the first time and enjoyed poking around it a bit. "You sure make cooking sound fun," she said. Thoroughly unconvinced. After a few minutes of chatting with her about cooking at home, it became [...]
Which would translate to "god jul" in Swedish, with a "gott nytt år" tossed in to wish you a happy new year as well! There are a couple of reasons that our Christmas day menu--usually a hearty but simple brunch, then a casual nosh later in the day--became a vaguely smörgåsbord-influenced [...]
This is what wasting time roaming around the Web will get you. The occasional “I can't believe it!!” gem. I don't recall how I originally ended up on the Laughing Squid web site, but one circuitous journey eventually found me on this link, a commercial project done by some creative [...]