A couple of years ago I gave up on fava beans. Don’t get me wrong, I love the things, even without the usual accompaniments (cue Silence of the Lambs joke), and I will eagerly order them from a restaurant menu. But the shelling, my god, the shelling. First you take the beans out of the pods. […]
I gave Iris the leftover crispy duck leg (which I recrisped in a pan before serving), and Laurie and I went out to dinner at Eva, a neighborhood restaurant in the Tangletown neighborhood. I was after the Market Menu, a three-course prix fixe featuring many ingredients from the U District Farmers Market. For me, It’s always […]
Last year I wrote an article about duck legs. Here it is. In the article I pointed out that duck legs are economical, relatively easy to buy, and delicious. In conclusion, I said, you should eat them often, like my family does. Iris, who was about 11 months old at the time I was writing, […]
Iris invented a new game. (Note that “Chubs” is one of my many nicknames for Iris, although she hasn’t actually been chubby for over eighteen months.) The game started with Iris flinging herself onto my bed and saying, “Chubs overboard! Rescue me with that life preserver! Rescue me way up high!” The life preserver was […]
Iris likes to listen to KEXP—or at least she likes to come into the bedroom and turn on Laurie’s clock radio, which is set to KEXP. The other day she got upset because the DJ was not Cheryl Waters. I was listening to a promo—you know, “Hi, this is Ben from Death Cab for Cutie, and […]