One of my favorite movies is National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. The weird thing is that it wasn’t one of my favorite movies the first time I saw it. I definitely liked it, but it took about 10 more Christmas’ of non-stop network TV play for me to really love it. Now, here is a hint that a lot of serious tea drinkers know.
Read & Discuss »photo: www.flickr.com/photos/36940699@N03/4348245604/ Whoever coined the term “Browning Garlic” almost got me in a bunch of trouble. It was my first day in culinary school and my first project was to make a dish with 4 other people. My job was to cook the mushrooms. The first thing that I was…
Read & Discuss »photo: flickr.com/photos/fotoosvanrobin/2810654583/ When I was a kid, I had this friend Billy who was Vietnamese. One of my most vivid memories I have of Billy is the day I saw him eating a green Papaya. Now I wasn’t even really sure what a papaya was supposed look like, but I…
Read & Discuss »www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/1711921134/ Every year from Spring until Fall there are two constants in my life. The first is that my golf swing will stink no matter how many lessons I take. The second is that my friend Alex will have one arm that is significantly darker than the other. The reason…
Read & Discuss »The first time I did laundry for myself was an adventure. After I washed my clothes, I smushed them in a huge ball, and literally stuffed them in a dryer so there wasn’t even an inch of room left. When the dryer finished the cycle, the clothes on the outside…
Read & Discuss »I can remember the first time I tried to make Matzo Ball soup. I had just come back from New York and had a great bowl of it at Katz’s Deli and was eager to make my own version. After 2 bags of groceries and 2 hours later, the final…
Read & Discuss »www.flickr.com/photos/bwc/4570396941/ Back in college I wan’t the most “sophisticated” person. I lived in a dorm that had a TV, two beds, my roommate’s giant hamster poster (that is a story within itself) and a microwave. I also ate very basic foods and, by that, I mean I ate whatever was…
Read & Discuss »My wife just asked me if I had any good recipes from my Chinese Grandmother. I had to think about it for a minute and then came to the realization that my Grandmother, Uncles, Aunts and Cousins never use recipes. For me it is strange to not use recipes, so I asked my mother about it and apparently recipes are more of a “Western thing.”
Read & Discuss »If you are ever in Seattle coffee house and order an “Expresso” you may get a nasty look. As I found out first hand by a barista, there is no “X” in Espresso. A lot of products have these little quirks where “people in the know” will frown upon you if you make these mistakes.
Read & Discuss »There are some things that almost all people love, but never really think about. One of those things is a frosty mug in the summer time. No matter if you are drinking beer, lemonade or iced tea, a frosty mug will turn that room temperature beverage ice cold in seconds….
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