I decided sometime last week that I want to start delving into my cookbook collection a bit more. I have quite a few cookbooks, which I generally use for inspiration, but really a lot of times the meals come from magazines or TV shows (or my head). Recently, a friend gave me a bunch of old cookbooks that someone in her family was getting rid of. ( Read more... )

I don't want to make any promises or anything, but I really must start writing. Therefore, take two at food journal ...

Today we made Chiarello Chocolate Chili con Carne from Easy Entertaining with Michael Chiarello on Food Network. Often when we make recipes we make quite a few changes to the original to meet our various dietary restrictions. You ( Read more... )

I cooked, cooked, cooked all day on Friday, skewering lots of veggies and cutting up a lot of chicken breasts. All went well, except for a slight couscous mishap. Does anyone have a good tip for avoiding clumping in couscous? I myself just think clumps are natural, but H will not take that as an excuse and thus I ended up feeling up couscous for ( Read more... )

Last night, I made ribs for the first time. This idea was spurred by our making ribs at the catering job on Saturday and then I wanted ribs so bad, I had to learn to make them. They turned out really well; I made a spice rub for them, cooked them for a good hour or so under low heat in the oven, and then put sauce on half of them (got to have the ( Read more... )

I dyed my hair fairly close to my natural color. I think. It's dark brown. Woot!

I’ve been toying with becoming a cook full time for quite a while now, but given my prior commitments (just a small thing called a PhD program), I’ve sort of put the whole idea on hold. I do some catering on and off for a smallish company based in the town that I live in, and I couldn’t really ask for better bosses or a better company to work for, ( Read more... )

Okay, first of all, I have to admit that it took me more than two clicks to figure out how to update my journal. This seems like a bad thing, but I'm not sure if it's due to a) the fact that I haven't updated in, like, months b) The fact that livejournal is all different or c) the fact that I am a moron. Perhaps it's like we often find in ( Read more... )

Ok, so it's about time to update my journal. Here's what's been going on in my life ( Read more... )

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So I watched Alias tonight. Thanks to PT's summary of the show, given to me about 8 months ago, I thankfully was not completely lost. I liked it! But I do have one question ... are there always so many needles ( Read more... )