One of the best things about life in Sweden is fika. Seemingly simple, fika just means snack food, but it also refers to the break…
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One of the best things about life in Sweden is fika. Seemingly simple, fika just means snack food, but it also refers to the break…
With apologies to Suzanne Collins: This has nothing to do with that. It recently occurred to me that I am drowning in food. I have…
Let’s see. My last post got us most of the way through Saturday. We arrived in Vero mid-afternoon and checked in at the Driftwood. Longtime…
Some people say it’s irreligious to celebrate Hellacious Saturday. I say they don’t know church doctrine very well. Here’s what we’re having today: horseradish bacon…
On the subject of our household finances, a consensus has emerged both in the comments of my recent post and elsewhere: Our grocery bill is…
Yesterday we had our annual holiday open house here at the Center, and faculty came from all across campus to enjoy a variety of treats.…
I was searching high and low for turkey drumsticks. They’re normally available in most local stores, but suddenly, the weekend before the holiday, we couldn’t…
We’ve been in the habit of eating salmon about once a week, usually on Sunday. I’ve perfected a very simple method: a sprinkling of Tony’s…
We found this anomaly at our local grocery store. Ever seen an egg shaped like this before? Both ends are the same size! Such eggs…
Dear TrueNorth, I picked up a bag of your Pecan Almond Peanut Clusters at the store the other day, and have found them quite delicious.…
Mottes de mâche by Une vallée dans la lune, licensed under Creative Commons Our latest culinary discovery is mâche, a green leafy valerian, also known…
Herb and Jenny are spending the night, along with their kids Marlon and Leroy, as they pass through New Orleans. We walked up to Venezia…
Today we gathered with friends and family — well, really it was just our little minimalist nuclear family and our friend James. We thanked Dame…
The “Eat-Well Food Mart” has been under construction at the corner of Canal and Broad for some months. Google knows nothing about “Eat-Well Food Mart”…
Sawing into the baby in this king cake made me feel kind of like Solomon Gone Mad. Since the baby isn’t actually contained in my…
We’re having a holiday open house at the office today, and we all brought cookies and other sweets. I thought it would be fun and…
Jaylene and her friend Tom came down from Indy for a quick visit this weekend. Saturday night we had dinner at Jacques-Imo’s, with just a…
After the culinary fiasco of 2004, I approached this year’s Thanksgiving with some trepidation. My confidence was not bolstered when Xy finally read the creme…
I’ve gotten the staining done. It took four days of solid work, plus a half-day of touch up this morning, not to mention a day…
A while back I was contacted by someone who wanted to use a picture I’d taken and posted online. I’ll call her RJ. Here’s the…