On Friday night my sister and her boyfriend came over for dinner. Steve cooked tofu curry for them, and just to make sure they got their full dose of phyto-estrogens, I sprang a tofu pie upon the unsuspecting guests. My sister deemed it to be "light and doesn't taste like tofu", the two main virtues of a tofu pie. (Well, she also said it was tasty ( Read more... )

My sister Marta and her boyfriend Pasha are currently in the US on vacation, and they are spending a few days in Austin. Then they will be heading to California where Pasha has an older friend (of my parents' generation, AFAIK) who he met when he studied in the US a few years ago, IIRC. (I have to substitute lots of acronyms for my crappy memory ( Read more... )