Ever stabbed your finger right under the nail with the sharp end of a chef knife?  Can I say "ouch" enough?  It still hurts today, since it's like my job to type a lot.  I'd much rather burn my fingers in the oven than that ( Read more... )

The weekend was a bit tiring, with
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Whoa...The house smells really good.  I just spent the last hour and half making a ton of lasagna so that we can have easy dinners on weeknights.  Besides, lasagna gets better over time because all the flavors meld, mellow and mature.  And I love to cook.  It helps me relax from the day at work ( Read more... )

I know nobody cares about my cooking, but I'm writing this because it was an amazing meal, so there ( Read more... )

Anybody like cooking?  Anybody know of good cooking communities to swap recipes?  I do mostly savory cooking, mostly on the stove.  I'm not much into desserts or baking, although the oven is absolutely indispensable to me for roasting, broiling, and crouton-making.

Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated!

One of my favorite TV cooking shows is "Mexico One Plate at a Time". Yeah, so it's a gringo named Rick Bayless cooking Mexican food, but you've gotta give this guy credit for studying Mexican cooking in situ for 20 years. Anyway, what's really cool is that I just learn that the new season is completely set in Yucatan, which means he is going to ( Read more... )

I love working and living in Mountain View.  It means that I can hop in my car and get home in 5 minutes.  It also means that I can go home for lunch.  Yes it saves some money, but mostly it's good to see Alex and Christine in the middle of the day.

I recently got Jacques Pepin's companion book to his new TV show "Fast Food My Way".  Inspired by ( Read more... )

This morning I got sick of my usual toast with Southwestern schmear (which my wife might one day write about in her LJ), so I wanted eggs instead. However, I decided to experiment with something I saw on Jacques Pépin's Fast Food My Way show. He made scrambled eggs with sour cream, which sounds interesting, so I did it and it turned out really ( Read more... )