One of our guests last night has some dietary restrictions, namely lactose intolerance and no meat. Fish, however, was OK, so I made fish kebabs. Upon announcing this plan to a variety of people, the universal reaction was, “How are… Continue Reading
The Wife and I used some of our day to go get some things to improve our quality of life. We got some coat hooks to hand up near our doors and to replace the fallen towel hook in the… Continue Reading
Saturday night was supposed to be the big dinner party — our friend the Buddhist monk and one of Becky’s friends, the Area Governor for Toastmasters. The Toastmaster friend fell ill and could not join us, so we wound up… Continue Reading
A few weeks ago, The Wife “voluntold” me for the job of catering a Toastmasters contest. When I agreed to help her out, I thought I’d be making breakfast for about twenty people. This number grew and grew until Friday… Continue Reading
Times are a little tight in The Desert Mansion. But, my birthday produced a new barbeque, and some gift money got diverted to buy propane and a marinated tri-tip from Costco. Initially high heat, progressively turned down as the cooking… Continue Reading
A friend came over tonight, and we had to set up some nosh. One thing I really like is pepper jelly and cream cheese. But, we couldn’t find any pepper jelly at Trader Joe’s, so we had to do a… Continue Reading
Good guacamole has fresh onion in it. When I tried to make guac yesterday, the only onion in the kitchen was starting to go bad, so I needed a substitute. Scallions lend a much, much stronger flavor to the guac… Continue Reading
A client keeps on bringing these in to the office. I like avocados and I make damn good guacamole. But how many of these things can we eat? An office of twenty people can’t keep up with the constant flow… Continue Reading