Mixed spring greens. White mushrooms. Fresh vine tomatoes. California strawberries. Blackberries. Two ounces of home-killed crab. Blue cheese dressing. Pure bliss ( Read more... )

I am a big, big tomato fan, but not a big fan of peppers and spicy things; as a consequence, pico de gallo is the only sort of salsa that I'm willing to eat. This is the recipe I came up with for the stuff after a great deal of poking at other people's recipes and throwing out what I didn't like. Your mileage may vary ( Read more... )

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I have developed a renewed fondness for lovely salads. To qualify as 'lovely', a salad must contain no fewer than three of the following ( Read more... )

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Tonight, I made soup. Disturbingly, the soup was good. I thus post the (admittedly insane) recipe ( Read more... )

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Tomorrow is double-training day at work. I'm stressed, I'm cranky, I'm having a really bad period, and you know what that means...cookies. Yes, cookies. When I'm this irritable, I either a) call Mars (who is in Wisconsin), b) write poetry (which is next on the list) or c) bake cookies. Assloads of cookies. Metric assloads of cookies. When I ( Read more... )