Alright, Keith says “tea bags suck.” Fine, fine, be a tea snob. Here’s the thing: I’m kind of a tea snob too, which is why I’m stuck with tea bags. Here is where I once again bitch about something I can’t get in Portugal, and you all sigh with boredom and say, “Again?” Yep, again. […]
I wouldn’t say my love of garlic is as passionate as Kona’s, but I do like the stuff. I use it fairly often in my recipes. I ran out about a week ago and I was missing it, so when I was at the grocery store yesterday I made sure to look for some. My […]
I used to be a fan of the whole ‘bread bowl’ concept. Soup or stew ladled into a small, hollowed out loaf of one bread or another… how is that not a bad idea? Not only would you enjoy the meal inside the bowl, but you could actually pick at the bowl itself in order to […]
Is there a vegetable, or any food at all, as ubiquitous as the onion? It’s used in every kind of cuisine around the world, in a myriad of forms and shapes and colors. Most people I know don’t even question the onion’s role in food — it’s just always there. I frequently hear, “Oh, onions […]
So I’m peeking over at Twitter earlier tonight and, amongst the stream of consciousness that is (what many people affectionately call) the Twitterverse, I see someone post the term “the tiniest hot dog in the universe,” with a link that I won’t share, since it really went to nothing at all. But that had me […]