The secret to awesome chicken salad is pistachios. Seriously. It was The Wife’s idea and it was damn good. Take your leftover chicken, some mayonnaise, celery, and they make the base for your chicken salad. But that’s pretty dull chicken… Continue Reading
The concept: Heinz’ mayonnaise is so good, you’ll think your wife turned in to a New York deli man. The pitch: A housewife who actually looks and talks like a New York deli man. The result: censorship by the UK… Continue Reading
It’s difficult to get lunch, anywhere, this time of year. Graduation parties take over all of the restaurants. A lawyer from our office reporting having to wait an hour for take-out today. I went to lunch with a partner in… Continue Reading
The Wife and I had dinner tonight at a new restaurant in town, called “Pars: Fine Persian Cuisine.” Leaving aside the annoying subtitle (restaurants should not have subtitles), I’d never had a lot of experience with Persian food and was… Continue Reading
The Wife reports that the dogs have begun to take an interest in the tomato plants. I bet they’re starting to smell like tomatoes. We’ve also seen the tendrils that will become the base of cucumbers form on that plant,… Continue Reading
Last night, I was going to grill salmon on a cedar plank. I’d done this before and the results were really good. Soak the plank in water for a few hours, and I seasoned my water with some lemon juice.… Continue Reading
The Wife and I went over to our friends’ house yesterday for burgers and cocktails. Our friends have kind of different ways of approaching the preparation of food and drink than I do. None of this is to say that… Continue Reading
I want to go flavor tripping. Here’s what you do. You eat this berry, this “miracle berry” from east Africa. It numbs your tastebuds to sour and bitter tastes for a few hours. Then, you eat stuff that normally would… Continue Reading
McDonald’s Southern-Style Chicken Biscuit In some parts of the country, mainly in the South, you can find Chick-fil-A restaurants, which serve the best tasting fast food chicken in existence. The Chick-fil-A chicken sandwich is very simple: a not-too-bready piece of… Continue Reading
Breakfast these days usually consists of a cup of coffee, some yogurt and a breakfast bar as I write, followed by yoga and getting ready for work. I’d had some high-fiber bars that were good for, well, good for the… Continue Reading