Today my teenager, S, took to the kitchen, to prepare his first meal in the Cooking Deal. He decided on Mini Flank Steak Tortillas with Chipotle-Lime Sour Cream, from Dave’s Dinners (which is a really fantastic cookbook, by the way, and on my list of cookbooks to be reviewed).
I’m very happy to say that my […]

One of my teenagers is home all summer this year. He’s at the age when playing video games is beginning to lose its appeal, but hanging out at the mall doesn’t beckon yet.
So let’s just say there’s been a whole lot of moping and being bored going on around here.
Fortunately, in the past my […]

This afternoon, I began to develop a serious craving for Slow-Cooked Shiitake with Shoyu. It’s a serious craving, because to make Slow-Cooked Shiitake with Shoyu, you need to soak the dried shiitake mushrooms overnight - no instant gratification there.
And my craving was serious enough that I now have 20 dried shiitake mushrooms submerged in cold […]