A more personalized variation on today's Writer's Block if you had to serve a meal to an ambassador from another country that symbolized your country's culture, what would you choose?If I came to visit you, which of your region's dishes would you feed me ( Read more... )

I really don't understand this trend for/fascination with red velvet cake. Sure, it looks pretty with certain frosting colours, but it's really not that big a deal. Or is this one of those Southern/Southern-influenced things where we've had it for years and years, and the rest of the nation just discovered it, so now it's cool ( Read more... )

Right, so my stomach has been acting utterly horrific for the past couple of days. Not just-changed-my-diet horrific so much as feels-all-tight-and- stretchy-like-I've-been-heaving horrific. My cure for that is saltine crackers, and saltine crackers I have had, AND chicken soup with rice in it. I'll get back on the "no starches" wagon tomorrow ( Read more... )

So today I kind of went nuts with the kitchening. There are reasons for this: I take my lunch to work,so I just make one thing, and make enough to last all week. I also don't like having to actually cook breakfast,not even toast, but since I'm still not allowed starches, i.e, cereal in any form, I've been having to make scrambled eggs. Not all that ( Read more... )

The problem with being a very slow waker-upper is that I'm never really geared up to get anything done until three-four hours after I get up. Now when I have to be at work, I can mostly auto-pilot that part of the day - my job does not require a great deal of brain power or fine manipulation. And honestly, I'm an evening/night person anyway ( Read more... )

Sesame oil tastes bitter bitter bitter ( Read more... )

I recall that some time ago when I was extolling the virtues of fried green tomatoes, a couple of you asked how I do them. I just did me some earlier this week, and took some pictures ( Read more... )

I made currant scones for the first time today, and they stubbornly refused to rise to a nice height ( Read more... )

I did the stupid thing where I WAY underestimated how hungry I was, and, about 6.00 pm, hit the point where I was getting shaky and ready to devour someone's FACE if I didn't eat RIGHT THE HELL NOW. *RAWR ( Read more... )

I had forgotten how gooooood salt is on watermelon ( Read more... )