the ones at the supermarket... They are much much fresher, and excess fossil fuels haven’t been burned to get the foods there like they are to get foods to your supermarket. Finally, when looking for organic produce, if...

to say that in our neck of the woods, everyone we know who has married recently was primarily looking for cash gifts. I know, I know, but that’s just the way things are around here.

I thought I’d died and gone to heaven when they started carrying the Mochi ice cream. I have a question for you. How do you keep them from getting freezer burned after you have opened the package? I always have problems...

My one experience with Doug’s gave me terrible heart burn in the middle of the night and I asked for mild sauce. Greatly overrated.

have been cooked well, but that may have been the judges looking for something positive to say. The celery was salty and the sauce was burned, and the dish was inedible. She was so thrown by the whole challenge that she...

lanky 6 foot from to a gaunt 112 lbs. Recuperation led to a lot of creative ways to kill boredom. Cooking shows offered a break from M.A.S.H. re-runs. The kitchen offered me a place to burn some cabin crazy creative energy, and...

been nice to see a menu more on the order of Sakura’s, but then again, I’m just happy to have an izakaya in my neck of the woods! It’s not always that I can justify making the drive down to Kearny Mesa, and this...

the memory. Restos are tough businesses and it’s hard for an owner to sit and watch the lights burn in step with the cash. thanks for the explanatin and jfood is a bit jealous that you live in such a beautiful part of the...

... if I could only keep five, what would they be, and why??". So here’s my list (at least for today!): 1. Kitchen timer- Without it, my kitchen would be in a perpetual state of smokiness due to burned foods 2. Chef’s...

'll just say that I find it difficult to find AUTHENTIC Japanese food in my neck of the woods.

Here in California (and I’m sure in your neck of the woods), they have amazing deals on chicken such as the 10lb bag of frozen chicken legs for $5. When I was poor I’d buy one of those and make everything from 'em....

the topic of barrel aging is far too complex to be summed up so simply. Are you talking about barrel aging in general or aging in new or fairly new oak casks? (Barrels come in all sizes. All kinds of woods are used to make...

Not that it helps with your chopsticks skills, but just realize that it’s OK to eat sushi with your hands. As a japanese friend of mine explained, "He makes it with his hands, you eat it with your hands – you lose the...

on a kick that cucumbers were the problem and would scream (literally) if he ate cukes. The veg garden was at the back of our property, with woods beyond that. So Grandpa planted corn in the next to last row, and the cukes behind...

rods (after cutting out holes on one side of the wood for them to enter and exit). Notice 4 ft poles — they completely closed off the 3 ft. doorway! They worked like a cattleguard, or what Canadians call a Texas Gate. Every...