I recorded a radio interview earlier this week, chatting about great foods and beverages to enjoy during the summer. When it comes to "summer" and "drinks" I get fixated on one thing: rosé sangria. I'll admit to not usually being a sangria fan. Random fruit and sweetened red wine, just not [...]
I think a new tactic I'll employ whenever travelling to a new place for the first time will be getting a pedicure on the first day there. That's how we found out about the prime location for getting our shrimp fix while in South Carolina last month. Warm weather, beaches, [...]
I can't tell you the last time I cooked French fries at home. Years ago, easily. If not a decade or more. Don't get me wrong. I love a good French fry, but I'm just pretty loath to glug out a pan full of oil and go through the work of [...]
Endless acres of Spanish moss hanging from trees; this at the Middleton Place plantation. For a couple of months there, mid May couldn't arrive soon enough. I'm truly thankful that this year's been such a full and busy one work-wise, but the load was almost too much, lots [...]
I can tell by my watch that it's salmon season! Well, okay. Not exactly by my watch. But by the fact that the harbinger of the seasonal openings--Copper River--has launched and that means that commercial openings begin peppering the region, bringing in freshly-caught wild salmon from throughout the Northwest. What [...]
I'm (kind of) sorry to say that I don't have any photos of the food to show you from dinner at Luc on Sunday night. Only kind of sorry, because I was having such a great times with friends, enjoying the food and the conversation and getting into the groove of a [...]
I FINALLY bought my first microwave. Nah. Just kidding. April Fool's!! A day late. I've never had a microwave. And I plan to live the rest of a full and satisfying life without ever owning a microwave. This week's piece in the Wall Street Journal about microwave manufacturer's trying to [...]
I guess it was two different influences that conspired to establish our menu for dinner last night. First, the Sunday trip through our beloved neighborhood grocery store, West Seattle Thriftway, where my eyes caught a "buy one, get one free" special on beautiful, boneless rib-eye steaks from Misty Isle Beef. Couldn't [...]
Don't let that fancy name scare you away. Cooking "en papillote," or in a paper pouch, is one of the easiest and most delicious ways to cook fish. You're essentially creating simple little steam ovens made of paper: the moisture stays fully enclosed in the packet and all the flavor [...]
Anyone else out there love both food and playing games as much as I do? I sure hope so. Because today's the official release date of my new cookbook, Gourmet Game Night. It's the ideal book for that niche of humanity that lives in that overlap of the foodie crowd and the [...]