The advantages of being married to someone whose main job is his comic strip is tagging along to various conventions while he promotes his books. Last year, I tagged along when he exhibited at San Francisco's WonderCon, this year I checked out Seattle and Portland. It was Paul's second year to exhibit at Seattle's Emerald... Continue Reading →
Chocolate is nature’s way of making up for Mondays
I was cleaning out our cupboard recently -- as I usually do every spring or after an especially tense episode of Hoarders -- and came across not one package of hot chocolate but four different types. Each with their own story of how it was acquired and each with it's specific purpose. Swiss Miss for... Continue Reading →
Observe the art of seduction. Watch, learn, and don’t eat my cookie.
I think I've determined what kind of cookie person I am. I love cakey cookies usually with some type of frosting or icing in it. Basically a portable cake that isn't a cupcake. The genius behind this cookie is that the filling is in between two cookies! And while it has no chocolate in it,... Continue Reading →
Avocado: It’s whats for lunch
On most days, I bring in food from home lunch. Nothing assembled but things I can easily put together at work. I'm usually rushing around in the morning checking my email, catching up on my blog reading and gulping down some jet fuel while trying to make it to work on time. Instead I toss... Continue Reading →
Just stick with cake
So I don't usually eat yogurt. Frozen yogurt is fine as a treat but yogurt-yogurt? I don't like so much. When I saw a commercial recently for Yoplait's "red velvet cake"-flavored yogurt -- notice the quotes -- I had try it for myself especially with being on a pseudo-diet pre-vacation and all. Verdict? Tastes absolutely... Continue Reading →
When baking, follow directions. When cooking, go by your own taste.
Do you ever have one of those recipes that somehow comes together and you don't exactly what you did to make it come together or how to replicate it? Well it happened with my attempt to make cookies with Cadbury Caramel Eggs -- the cousin to the Cadbury Creme Eggs. There was torrential rain in... Continue Reading →
Man cannot live on chocolate alone; but woman sure can
What kind of person gets themselves chocolate on Valentine's Day? This person. (Points to self.) And with no fault of my husband who has gotten me heart-shaped boxes of chocolate in the past, I simply hinted that I wanted nothing special for Valentine's Day -- the day where every other person gets a box of... Continue Reading →
My favorite animal is steak*
*Obviously this post is about meat consumption. ---------------- I'm a pretty adventurous eater. And while there are a lot of things I have on my list that would still like to try, there are some things I will not absolutely eat because of bad association with a childhood memory. Like liverwurst. I will not touch... Continue Reading →
Anybody who believes that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach flunked geography
As far as desserts go, I think the award for the most pretentious goes to the Napoleon aka Mille-feuille. First of all, it is impossible to eat without much fuss. Using a fork to take cut off a piece pushes out all the custard filling and destroying any semblance of the neat flaky sheets alternately... Continue Reading →
How I Met My Husband
So it's Valentine's Day and I thought it would be appropriate to share a little story with how I met my husband, Paul. You know, the hedgehog-haired, bespectacled guy I usually write about... my constant companion on many of my food adventures... and often, the person I post photos of here (see above). Ten years... Continue Reading →
My Burning Kitchen... on the road 