Announcement from Northwest.

After several flying adventures this week, imagine my delight when I found the following in my inbox:
      Happy Holidays from Northwest
With the Holiday season upon us already, Northwest is pleased to extend our season’s greetings [...]

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Comforts of home.

Sometimes I’m just lucky.
Today I woke up at my parents’ house, here in time for Christmas after travelling many many hours and failing, a few times, to catch a plane that actually flew.
Yesterday I set out from Seattle at 1 am, and arrived only a little late to the next stop, to find that my [...]

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New product spotted: Baconnaise?

I happened to run across this website, and I’m not sure what to think. My random reactions in no particular order:

That’s disgusting! But I am intrigued…
If it tastes like bacon but isn’t bacon, it’s not real food.
How nice that our Jewish friends can now experience the flavor of bacon! I wonder if it can be [...]

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Eight-hour leap (of faith).

I was a vegetarian, until moving to New Orleans, where some corrupting influence who shall remain nameless took me to Texas Bar-B-Que in Metairie and bade me try the ribs. Thanksgiving turkey, crown roast at Christmas, bacon, hamburgers, filet mignon etc., etc.:  I had successfully resisted them ALL - but one bite, just one bite of unctuous, smoky, [...]

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Snowy day, hot drink

A day that started extremely rough has morphed into a wonderful quiet afternoon at home.
This morning I was to catch a 9:00 flight out of Sea-tac. This shouldn’t have been a problem, but sometime last night the everpresent Seattle drizzle began to freeze, and laid down a blanket of slick ice before turning into a [...]

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Sillycake

In anticipation of birthday events – and knowing that the grocery store always inflates the prices of things like cookware - I went to a nearby big-box home goods shop and purchased a cake pan for $8. Later, at the grocery store, I realized I would need two cake pans and found a second one, right there [...]

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Blackened Chicken

Blackened Chicken – is it Cajun? Is it Mexican? It’s hard to say.
I’ve read somewhere that blackening is not a true cajun cooking technique, and only became known as one when Paul Prudhomme started serving blackened redfish in the 1980’s. But around the time when he was doing that, Michael’s Taqueria in Monterey, CA, was [...]

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Birthday … salad?

Yesterday was NBB’s birthday, and of course I was going to give him a birthday dinner. I offered to take him out to a steakhouse, or make steak at home, or anything he wanted – anything at all. What did he finally request?
Salad.
Blackened chicken salad (with bacon), to be fair. It is probably as unhealthy [...]

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