Last week I took Iris to play at the treehouse play structure inside REI. This is the most awesome piece of climbing equipment I’ve ever seen. Like any good amusement, it feels dangerous, but it’s incredibly safe. You wind your way up the padded trunk of a plastic tree, across a bridge, and down a […]
Iris and I have been playing a great video game called Chocolatier. It’s one of those trading and resource management games where you fly around to difference places, making friends and enemies and lots of chocolate. It includes an extremely realistic chocolate-making segment where you fire ingredients out of a cannon. If you ever tour […]
They’ve been out of our usual white cheddar mac and cheese at Trader Joe’s for a couple of weeks, so I’ve been buying Annie’s at QFC. Annie’s doesn’t sell elbows, except in the microwave format; your choices are shells or bunnies. I prefer shells. I also noticed that at QFC, the small and large boxes […]
Sorry for the late notice, but if you live in Seattle and like grilled cheese sandwiches, there’s an event in Seattle with grilled cheese sandwiches that you should know about. (Apologies to Sol Tucker.) It’s tomorrow, Thursday, May 17, from 5pm to 9pm in the bar at Union, 1st and Union, downtown Seattle. Chef Ethan Stowell […]
As long as you don’t mind being known as Dr. Thrifty, it would behoove you to print Mark Bittman’s column in last week’s New York Times and hand out copies to the grads and newlyweds in your life. The column, entitled “A No-Frills Kitchen Still Cooks,” details how to outfit a new kitchen for under $200 […]