I miss my neighbor city to the north and my temporary home for a year: Los Angeles. I miss their restaurants, both the hole-in-the-wall and trendy ones, the shops, the different neighborhoods, occasional star-sighting and the fact there's always something to do. But I also enjoy being back in my hometown San Diego where work... Continue Reading →
Batter Blaster is (not) mother-flippin’
You know those guys that line up at Costco for free samples? You might see me there because that's what I do for fun on the weekend.* Between the sausages and Joint Juice, I had my first taste of Batter Blaster and succumbed, against my better judgment, to the Batter Blaster lure.The sample I tried... Continue Reading →
New Year’s Resolution: Saving the planet one plastic bag at a time
So when did plastic bags become the evil nemesis of the environment? In March 2007, San Francisco became the first city to ban shopping bags. Large grocery chains and pharmacies will not be providing plastic checkout bags within a year. Other cities may follow suit.It seemed to come to a head last year when a... Continue Reading →
We interrupt this program…
With me having most of last week off, my plan was to blog as much as possible to make up for the once a week posts I've been scrapping together lately. I have an actual queue of posts that have yet to be written, are half done, photos taken and finished in my head. But... Continue Reading →
Waking up from the spritz cookie coma
Due to an unfortunate illness, Paul's parents were stuck in Nevada for Christmas. Stuck with them were Paul's favorite cookies: butter spritz. So being the kind and thoughtful person I am, I decided to bake a batch of those cookies especially for him and count them as his Christmas gift.If you know anything about me,... Continue Reading →
Gift baskets are the essence of class and fanciness
So three months into my new job, in the height of the holiday season what should be delivered to me at work one morning but a gift basket. A gift basket in the true sense of the word in that there were cookies, crackers, cheese spread and more tucked neatly inside a wicker tray. I... Continue Reading →
“What’s this green thing doing in my brownie?”
Sometimes the last thing I read before I go to bed are cookbooks. If my dreams aren't filled with nightmares about work, they are filled with cooking. Usually experimental cooking gone horribly wrong. The past few nights, I've been studying Jessica Seinfeld's cookbook, Deceptively Delicious. I was thinking that I could possibly try something right... Continue Reading →
IHOG: International Houses of Gluttony
Walking around Balboa Park and trying to eat my way "around the world" was not uncommon. At this year's December Nights, I overheard many people yell to their companions which country they were going to eat next."I'll meet you over by the House of Germany. I'm going over to France and a slice of buche... Continue Reading →
New addition to my cookbook family
So isn't it always the case? I walk into Target to pick up a few things and suddenly my basket is full! I'm paying over $50 for things I didn't really need. That box of facial tissue I initially came in for is buried under a load of stuff which includes a new cookbook.The cookbook?... Continue Reading →
Aerosol pancake batter
Along the lines of aerosol cheese is Batter Blaster, an aerosol pancake/waffle batter. Not a joke.Is this wave of the future? I thought it was the freeze dried crap that astronauts eat along with Tang powdered OJ. Or maybe I'm just old and not keeping up with the kids these days. Something just seems really... Continue Reading →
My Burning Kitchen... on the road 