I like BBQ, it’s just eating BBQ ribs off the bone is not my favorite thing to eat. I feel sort of cave-womanish, gnawing on the rib…sauce all over my face, from ear-to-ear. SO not romantic! Plus, they’re an awful lot of work for what you end up getting. I had this BBQ Beef Brisket [...]
Continuing the no wheat theme, here’s another wheat free and vegetarian meal. Combining a legume (beans) and rice makes a complete protein. Eating one or the other alone, does not. Cooking beans from scratch, especially if you do it in the crockpot, is also super economical. A small can of beans runs around $1, a [...]
Sometimes I can’t fathom how far I’ve come, technologically speaking, in the 10 months since I’ve started this blog. Before I got my iPhone, I had a simple phone, we dubbed “Eve“, since she looked like the girlfriend of “Wall-E“. I didn’t know how to text. Well, I knew how, I just didn’t understand the [...]
I had this lasagna last summer. Ami P. made it for one of the nightly pot-luck dinners we had while on vacation near Yosemite. Every night 80 of us would gather and bring a dish to share. I had never made, nor even heard, of lasagna in the crock-pot. But I knew if it tasted [...]
I had a built in “family” when I moved to England in 1984. I went to college with Charles, whose family are farmers in Yorkshire. I had spent time with them when I’d traveled around Europe after college. I’d met Simon, Charles’s cousin when I lived in San Francisco. So on weekends, I’d travel up [...]
I’m pretty sure my Kansas City family will be turning on their BBQ spits after they read this post, but I am not a BBQ afficianado. In Kansas City, BBQ is a religion. The family loves BBQ’d Pulled Pork sandwiches, so I slot it in occasionally. The best thing about my BBQ’d Pulled Pork is [...]
