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The secret to survivin’ is knowin’ what to throw away and knowin’ what to keep. – KR We all have those nights were you are too tired to go out to eat, nothing planned to cook, no milk for cereal and basically hostage to the pantry and freezer. Don’t get me wrong, I do love […]
Read More. . . when it’s served up three ways in a Chinese Restaurant! Right now is live King Crab Season, at least here in Seattle, and the method of choice for celebrating the three most important days in April: mine, my father-in-law and my mother-in-law’s birthday. All within just a handful of one another, as […]
Read MoreTweeterpated, twitterish, tweetastic, twitterific, tweepstakes….. For the longest time, I avoided Twitter, basically because I had no desire to follow #bieber, #littlemonsters and felt silly to even think about publically typing something like #LesNipplerables. Besides, it was the darts in the dress people. What changed? Two things 1) wanting to grow my Facebook, blog and […]
Read MoreMelty, brown cheesy goodness? Oui, s’il vous plait!!! I have been reading and enjoying my Clementine in the Kitchen cookbook. Another member of my vintage collection…. Inspired by the Clementine’s brief recipe and description of Croque Monsieur (roughly “Mister Crunchy”), my own taste memories from Café Presse (Seattle), a corner café in Paris, and some […]
Read MoreCaprese Inspired Steamed Clams This is a definite go-to, easy, tasty dinner. Scale it up for many, scale it down for fewer. Or just eat more. Every time I make it there are variations, pretty hard to mess up though. I thought today I would pay attention to the inputs and share the resulting output. […]
Read MoreThis isn’t the most exotic thing you can bánh tráng, but it is pretty darn tasty. What is bánh tráng? It’s really a noun that I made into a cool sounding verb…. And is Vietnamese term for the rice paper wrappers (or tapioca) use throughout their cuisine. On our vacation in 2005 to Vietnam, I […]
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