See's Candies (specifically Nuts & Chews) 

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I can always tell when spring has finally returned to our home - we are once again inspired by beautiful ingredients and looking forward to creating beautiful food ( Read more... )

Last night, DH and I celebrated our 21st anniversary since our first date.  WOW.  We did our usual thing and went out to dinner.  We even went someplace semi-usual for us - Eno Vino has become our default fancy dinner place.  We love the atmosphere and the service, and the food is to die for!

So I received an email invitation, informing me that ( Read more... )

Wow, what an amazing Friday!

It all started with lunch.  I went for a late lunch with a friend, and we sat on a patio overlooking the Yahara for two hours, chatting happily about work, food, kids, books, flying dreams, power tools, etc.  The Bourbon Street Grille is a funny little place in Monona, that usually has terrible service and merely edible ( Read more... )

It all started last November or so, when 
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It's been awhile since I've done a food post.

Rupert announced he had become a vegetarian about 2 months ago.  He's not even eating ramen anymore, because we only found one flavor (mushroom) that is inoffensive.  It's been tough finding ways to keep him full.  He really dislikes the vegetarian options in the school cafeteria, so I tried keeping ( Read more... )

Luzon Jumilla is a spanish wine I discovered last summer.  I bought it based on the description of "exploding gobs of fruit."  I loved the wine - it was a huge red at a tiny price ($8.50-9.99/bottle).  I pimped it to EVERYONE.  And then, poof! it was gone.  Couldn't find it anywhere, and woe was me.

Well, I'm kind of stubborn about stuff, so every ( Read more... )

• Mavis's wonderful adventures in MLW.
• Wicked - the audiobook (unabridged) - what a weird-ass book.
• Found!  Luzon Jumilla back on the shelves at Woodmans!
• It's not Pneumonia, but it still required 2 trips to the Dr. this week.
• The care and feeding of a 14-yr old vegetarian.

Labor Day seemed like a good day to go out to dinner, but for some reason, it seems all the nice restaurants downtown were closed. I was pretty surprised by that, so no Cocoliquot for us again. We had tried going there on a Sunday, and no dice, so I thought Monday would work. Silly me. After determining that nothing we were interested in was open ( Read more... )

More excerpts from The Best American Science Writing 2005 (ed. Alan Lightman), this time from Ellen Ullman's Dining with Robots.

"When the software engineer and writer Ellen Ullman decides to make a recipe from Julia Child's Art of French Cooking, she winds up contemplating the pleasures a robot cannot experience--and worries that even humans may be ( Read more... )