It's always a good time to go Flying “free” on saved airline/credit card miles means that even as a nicely dressed and polite passenger, you might as well be a ... sheep. We traveled to Italy on Lufthansa with Bill assigned to a coveted and cramped aisle seat while I was nearby in the middle of...
Where I grew up, hunting was pretty common. Granted, not many folks in Forest Hills were hunting to feed themselves through the winter, but it wasn’t unusual for kids to take the first day of deer hunting season off from school. My family, however, was not a hunting family. The closest I got to a...
First off, a sort of odd welcome to the two newcomers. Or possibly just the one, if AmyH didn't add me back. I'm not really around here much, in part because I'm facing a crisis of media, so it was a little irresponsible for me to add someone new who hadn't added me first, but hey, in spite of the...
Soup has new meaning to me now that I have homemade chicken stock. I've always felt slightly disappointed when I had to resort to the paste, powder, or canned stuff to make soup...but no more! Last week I made a Thai Coconut Chicken soup that turned out very tasty. Luckily, it is hard to go wrong...
Beans and I are pretty close, especially kidney beans. They're tasty, versatile, filling, cheap, and packed full of protein and fiber. I can remember growing up and eating stew/soup on cold days which had a recipe of rotating ingredients, but beans and veggies were consistent key players. Later in...
Now, I'll be honest -- I'd never even heard of pumpkin chili until yesterday afternoon. During my lunch break, I research recipes on the web . . . and it was while I was doing so that this thought popped into my head: pumpkin in chili might just work! So, I Google-d it, and -- surely enough --...
I just learned the first rule of blogging. Always save the prose before you insert the photos. Dumb me. Take 2: I am happy to say that before I joined Flickr I was websurfing one day and happened upon Lolo's blog, Vegan Yum Yum. What a fun site- Lolo is a vegan cook turning author, animal lover,...
I have no trouble making moussaka, dolmades, spanakopita, or tzaziki, and turning phyllo into baklava, but my Greek dishes always turn out to be super greasy and heavy. Why? I can’t seem make this stuff, I fail at it. How bad is it? I get horrible soggy goo all the time. On the surface of things,...
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