Posted in Belly laugh, Cooking implements on Mar 12th, 2009
This is where it started. Somewhere among the small table flanked by two short benches, V-berth bed that could sleep about 1.5, and the tiny restroom sat this marvelous cabin kitchen.
On my recent sailing adventure, that’s the spot on the 25-foot Catalina where Cap’n Chris cooked up some veggie chili. It was a nice complement to the [...]
Posted in Aminals, Belly laugh on Mar 7th, 2009
“Here’s a trick you might try at home sometime: pick almost any recipe in the ‘Moosewood.’ Now add bacon. You will find that the addition of this decidedly unwholesome ingredient makes the food taste much better.”
-Ariel Levy, comparing the tone of Our Bodies, Ourselves and The Joy of Sex in “Doing It,” a New Yorker [...]
Posted in Belly laugh, Gardening, Reviews on Mar 3rd, 2009
In the past week, Operation High Nutrient Density Garden (OHNDG for short, I guess) went into the hardware collection phase.
Last Tuesday, one of my co-gardeners and I headed to an alley in Van Ness to collect about 100 free bricks. This was a Freecycle find, and therefore a you-haul kind of deal. She and I [...]
Posted in Belly laugh on Feb 22nd, 2009
Dear Couples Grocery Shopping Together This Morning at the Co-op,
I couldn’t help but notice you shopping today. You were walking around, figuring out the best version of each thing on your list, debating whether you already had this or that, and from time to time selecting an item and putting it in your shopping cart.
On [...]
Posted in Belly laugh on Jan 16th, 2009
Posted in Belly laugh, Holidays on Dec 22nd, 2008
…the breakfast of champions! Coffee and buttery, sugary goodness… yes, I’ve been living the good life over the past few days.
Actually, I’ve watched with interest over the past few weeks as my sugar threshold has risen. While I don’t seek out sweet things during most of the year, around the holidays I’m inundated with chocolate [...]
Posted in Belly laugh on Dec 4th, 2008
Like an ice age or Halley’s Comet, it only happened for a split second in the grand scheme of the planet, and will not happen again for a very long time. But yes, there was a moment when my refrigerator a.) was clean and b.) actually resembled the fridge of a cooking-averse bachelor.
Moving will do [...]
Posted in Belly laugh, Holidays on Nov 3rd, 2008
Halloween was a night for ghosts, ghouls, and Sarah Palin, but some gentler creatures also ventured out into the night. Here’s one I thought would be perfect for the pages of YAD:
You may be asking yourself “Could it be?” Yes, your favorite PR-spouting and mung bean-sprouting locavore blogger had a close encounter with…
the FLYING SPAGHETTI [...]
Posted in Belly laugh, Current events on Sep 11th, 2008
This 9/11 anniversary week saw some twisted food stories. Samak Sundaravej, prime minister of Thailand, was ousted for accepting payment for his cooking show. The poor guy just gets off on being on camera kvetching about food. Give him a break! Although the consequences aren’t too grave (he may be appointed as his own successor), [...]
Posted in Belly laugh on Aug 18th, 2008
The next part of the travelogue is coming up, but I couldn’t resist showing you this in the mean time. Can these people really sell a whisk that looks so much like a sex toy with a straight face? And without blushing?
If you think the resemblance is just a coincidence, consider the one color it [...]
