Our Christmas misadventures this year take us back to merrie olde England, though I assure you in a way not nearly as serious as stories of years past. Yeah. No. I don’t come out of this one looking nearly as good as the last time I wrote about England. I have always been my favorite […]
A word, here, about planning ahead. Slowly, ever so slowly, I am clawing this place back from the boxes. In truth I’m only just now, a week and change later, starting to feel human again. The entire process took a lot out of me and it was yesterday when I first felt up to a […]
I do not want this to degenerate into moving.blog, so let’s sidestep for a moment into a favorite subject of mine: cooking. If all goes well, which more or less means if I don’t forget about it, I hope this is the first in an occasional series on the subject. I’ve been learning to cook […]
A word, here, about bringing back old habits. Before the plague, back when there was an outside world I could walk around and do things in, I had developed a serious problem of overscheduling myself. I realized this in I want to say September or October of last year, when I said to someone, “I […]
A word, here, about practice. I made stock for the first time ever today. As what I described last week as a “serious cooking enthusiast” for more than ten years now – it was 2009 when it was first suggested to me that I watch Good Eats – it is slightly remarkable that I’ve never […]
I have misfires like any cook, but it isn’t often that I make something that is completely inedible. Note I didn’t say I NEVER do this. Much like pancake week, I determined that this week I really wanted to grind on a single thing and get good at it. I am cheating a little bit, […]