Tonight I made myself a hamburger for dinner. And I also pre-made myself hamburgers for several more dinners. Well, I semi-pre-made them. 😅


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It's been about a year since I've written about my dining-out habits. A year ago I observed that, post-Covid, I'd returned to eating restaurant meals (dining there or taking it home) 8x per week. That was a big drop from dining out basically every day for lunch and dinner before Covid. During Covid I dined out way less. In fact at the start of the ( Read more... )

I've been a temporary bachelor the past few days. Hawk has been away on a business trip. She left early Tuesday. For the past four days now I've been on my own ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago I read in one of my usual haunts on FlyerTalk.com about a new (to me) variety of Rao's pasta sauce. Rao's basic marinara sauce has been a fan favorite among Costco fans for quite some time. I've tried it myself and have been... underwhelmed ( Read more... )

Hosting a dinner party is tough nowadays. I don't just mean the effort of shopping for food, cleaning the house, preparing food, and cleaning up afterwards. Even just planning the menu is getting difficult. So many people have food allergies nowadays that if you get 2-3 people with different no-can-do lists it's hard to assembly a reasonable sized ( Read more... )

Last night I made a pan of brownies. One of our friends who came over for dinner is allergic to eggs, so in making this recipe I substituted the one egg called for with flaxseed and water. It's a common substitution in baking for people who can't eat eggs, and usually it works well. But last night it failed... weirdly.

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A few weeks ago I bought a Wienerschnitzel kit from Costco. I made half of the meat in the kit following the recipe on the box. The result was pleasingly similar, visually, to the picture on the box. I mentioned that because that's not always the case with boxed meals. See this Trader Joe's chicken parmigiana as an example ( Read more... )

One of the nice things about shopping at Costco is their wide variety of ready-to-cook meals. Some of them are on the basic end of the range, like packages of pre-seasoned meat. At the opposite end are meal kits, with multiple ingredients and/or side dishes included in a package. One that caught my eye on a shopping trip two weeks ago was this ( Read more... )

One of the challenges of living in our post-industrial society is sorting through the amazing array of choices we have. Which is the best for each of us? That question applies to big-ticket purchases like cars as well as prosaic, everyday purchases like groceries. With cars it's well understood that a shopper should test-drive at least a few before ( Read more... )

The other day my last piece of CorningWare broke. Hawk was moving it from the sink to the dishwasher, accidentally banged it against the lip of the granite countertop, and it cracked.


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