One of the joys of this season is a steady supply of those crunchy, tasty little seeds to be found inside pumpkins and whatnot. I love the smell of them roasting to perfection in my oven. Not so nice is removing them from gutted pumpkins. The slimy, stringy flesh that smells...well, smells odd, and chaps my hands. This I am willing to put up with ( Read more... )

Several days ago, I casually posted to Facebook that I had had Brussels sprouts and roasted taters for dinner. The responses were interesting as there appears to be no halfway ground on sprouts: people either love or hate them. Violently. Which got me thinking as to why...and I recalled that several weeks ago I bought some frozen sprouts to try. ( Read more... )

Like most of you I've been quaffing (Great word that!) great quantities of water, iced tea and other cold drinks. Was web browsing and visited a site I'd forgotten about but it has a ton of yummy drinks (mostly cold ones) using tea and as I've enjoyed the ones I've made, thought I'd share the wealth. My faves are the citrus sipper, the cranberry ( Read more... )

Normally the Bat Cave is between 10-15 degrees cooler than our upstairs but due to computer usage and our heat wave its over 80 in here. Still, I could be upstairs and it's hotter there.

Still, I'm happy:

One of the mums at Mr. G's school has organized a quick-n-dirty playdate 'cause she has air conditioning. Yes, this lovely lady welcomes a ( Read more... )

I was glad I had a thermos of this in the fridge today - easy and tasty ( Read more... )

I love fish. Sushi, fish'n'chips, baked, raw, soused, cured, smoked, boiled...you name it.  But it was bourne home today to me that fish themselves really object to this human obsession with heat, salt and various knives ( Read more... )

As many of you know, I am inordinately fond of Asian cuisine.  I love dim sum with a passion. My only problem has been that I've usually had to go to the Int'l District in order to get it.  Well, I have found dim sum on the Eastside on par with the restaurants in the District.  A friend down the street from me recommended it and dangerpuddle and I made it ( Read more... )

Mr. G and I had a hilarious time making chocolate spoons (I got the idea from a recipe post over at The Daily Tiffin.) and here is a modified version of the recipe.

You will need:

2 dozen tea spoons
   Make certain they are different from household silverware as The Kid will clain a spoon for personal use. Trust me.
2 large bags chocolate chips ( Read more... )

Well our second Thanksgiving dinner went well. Our friends left well-fed and happy after much delicious food, sci fi movies and Mario Party on the Wii.  I was especially happy because I saw our friend Derek, who I now see a couple times a year if I'm lucky, so that was a nice unexpected bonus. Our other three friends who came I see on a fairly ( Read more... )

I love memes that actually make me think! Thanks neodods!

( Foodie meme )