think globally, eat globally, throw functionally
It's Passover time! The best Jewish holiday, as far as I'm concerned, because it's all about food. Yes, a lot of that food consists of matzoh, but The Tribe gets pretty inventive with it. Such as, for example, the classic Pesach bruch food: matzoh brei. Usually, matzoh brei is sort…
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So, when I heard the fog horns last night I was thinking how much I missed Karl and how little he's been around lately. Sometimes it feels to me like it's not the same city anymore now that it's seldom blanketed by fog. So, a little free verse about that…
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Pi Day comes at a bad time for making pies; apples are out of season and over the hill, and neither berries nor summer fruit have come in yet. This means that you pretty much need to make your Pi Day Pie of something which is available year-round, such as…
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Tasting parties are a great foodie activity for an evening in with friends. If you stick to tastings of purchased, semi-perishable foods, then you have an activity for a weeknight party as well; you do your shopping the weekend before. The classic tastings are wine, cheese and chocolate, because they…
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... or what you do when your oven dies and you need some place to put the temporary substitue toaster oven.…
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(this is an old post from four years ago, reprinted by request. I know this is the wrong time of year for this recipe, but I'm about to go to the Sourthern Hemisphere) A few years ago there was an excellent Italian restaurant in Jacksonville, Oregon called "Caterina's"…
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