, overcast and somewhat stormy and got even stormier as the day wore on. A couple hours after the roasts went into the oven the power went out. After confirming that the power outage would be rather long and much debate (at least...

It was a dark and stormy night. It was also a ridiculous -29 C with the windchill. My glasses had only one lens, the other having fallen out and gotten lost god-knows-where. The car was socked in the driveway, buried under more...

't speak for others... And I agree, SauceSupreme, that the Bowery burger isn’t the best out there. However, I have a thing for English muffins and St. Andre, which is why I’d rather go to Bowery than Hungry Cat. HC...

will bring you the best. The scenery is great—ran most of that way in the dark with a full moon last night and the mountains were beautiful.

is always an option to get to the metro as well on stormy days.

Just the two of us, but we still had a nice feast! Christmas Eve, I made my first Tom & Jerry’s from an Epicurious recipe. The only change I made was to use rum and bourbon instead of rum only (I used Myer’s Dark rum...

restaurants and we weren’t full after dinner. Also, the lighting at the restaurant was so dark that it was hard to see what we’re eating. I don’t think we’ll be going to back to this restaurant. The next...

on in the evening, in the dark, with a roaring fire in the firepit (we don’t have hot summer nights in Western WA!) I want grilled hamburgers (local organic grass fed!), real jerk chicken, Reed’s ginger beer, scads of...

with Priceline! Then I’d spend a couple of nights in the wine country – and quite honestly would try to get a place relatively close to where I was eating. For example, Healdsburg is some distance from Napa and the...