I've been experimenting with cheese at Trader Joe's again, and this time discovered their Italian truffle cheese. Oh man, that stuff is gooooood. I don't even know how to decribe the taste, though I guess it's what truffles taste like? It does taste kind of like the truffle aoli dip Yoshiko and I had when we went to Centro (very popular local ( Read more... )

Back in April, I went to DC and New York on vacation with Yoshiko and Vicki. Overall, it was a pretty good trip, with lots of great experiences and food and friendship and so forth, but there were also some squabbles (turns out three people don't always all want to do the same thing) and - most tragically - I lost the camera card holding half of my ( Read more... )

I've made this recipe for tuna steaks twice now, and think I can safely say it is crazy-delicious, even when limited to a skillet instead of the grill.

For the cilantro, I've been using these frozen cilantro cubes I picked up somewhere. (::google searches:: Ah, these things. "Health Facts: Cilantro is known as appetizing." Well, that's certainly ( Read more... )

I just successfully poached an egg. I am inordinately proud of this accomplishment.

I made shabu-shabu for dinner! It came out really well, too!

( Yum! )

Today I found these at Target:


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I once again went to Anime Expo!

( Not pictured: countless phone calls ending with 'Yeah, I can't meet up now either.' )

Note to self: just because you can buy three pizzas at Cici's for ten bucks does not necessarily mean you should.

Did you know you can buy edamame at the store? It's true! They keep them in bags in the organic frozen food section! Who knew? They taste almost as good as the restaurant kind, too. (I think I should have used more salt. Or fancier salt. Or more, fancier salt. Hmm ( Read more... )

Hot damn. Check out one of the features that's supposed to be coming soon to Photoshop. It's like an autofill made of magicI know it's already Easter, but you know what's neat about Passover? Kosher pickles on sale at the grocery store. Mmmm ( Read more... )