I would like to eat more fish. Not just a greater volume of fish, but a greater variety. This is not a health initiative; it’s palate-driven. And I need help. The fish I cook regularly are salmon, catfish, and mackerel. Occasionally I do halibut, and I’ve been meaning to do another roasted stuffed trout. That’s really […]
Last week my laptop broke, six days before the warranty expired, and I sent it in for service. Apple service is awesome. They overnighted me a box. I put the computer in the box and called DHL for a pickup. They picked up the box at 4:30pm on Monday and flew it to Memphis. The […]
I learned that you should not try to make crispy fried polenta from polenta with lots of cheese in it. Iris Out Loud #4: Breakfast Catastrophe (378K MP3) The polenta part is true. The rest is fiction.
Iris and I have been enjoying old episodes of Rocky and Bullwinkle on DVD, and she is particularly obsessed with Boris and Natasha. So they’ve been featuring in our Kitty and Pirate stories lately. Yesterday’s story went like this: Boris and Natasha (in disguise) invited Rocky and Bullwinkle over for empanadas. But little did our heroes […]
We were at Uwajimaya on Sunday, and my mom picked out the following cookie: I have no punchline that is a tenth as funny as that.