Finding the Good in Everyday Life
Before the pandemic, we traveled. And a lot of the time, vacations were planned around what we wanted to eat. That's just how we roll. Then came the pandemic, and well, let's say I don't really want to die just because I'm jonesing for some awesome pizza from 3000 miles away. Until this virus is [...]
I cannot believe that, of all things, I’m actually writing about butter. But that’s what the last few years have done to my mind. And yet, soft butter is clearly underrated and one of the best things in life. And in the last year, my mind has been blown away by a new soft butter [...]
It's not like I'm some kind of aficionado of food delivery. In fact, I hardly ever have food delivered. But if I did, I'd want it to be done by these people in India, who have been using the same system for 130 years. Yep, 130 years. And I never even heard of this until [...]
Here’s the deal. Macaroni and cheese is my favorite thing to eat. Ever. It’s my “death row last meal” thing. I mean, if I ever end up on death row for... oh, I don’t know... not using my turn signal on an empty road (because that’s about as wild as I get), then mac and [...]
If you haven't yet seen Stanley Tucci's new food travel show on CNN, Searching for Italy, you're missing out big time. Because... Stanley Tucci = awesome. Italy = awesome. Italian food = out-of-this-world awesome. Stanley Tucci Let's start with Stanley Tucci. I think the first thing I ever saw him in was the 1996 movie [...]
To be honest, I had mixed feelings about doing this post. For one thing, I did a post not that long ago on grilled cheese sandwiches. Second, this couldn't really be classified as "good" food, unless you're like really, really drunk. And third, my goal for this whole blog is to focus on the good [...]
Since the pandemic started, Jodi has been taking online baking courses. We've had everything from croissants to calzones, from chicken pot pies to bagels. And everything has been amazing. Her latest endeavor is a multi-day class on sourdough starter. So far, so good I think. But then, I know nothing about starter. What I do [...]
So I’m just hanging around the house the other day, trying to figure out how I could manage to never shovel snow again for the rest of my life, when the UPS guy drives up and leaves a package at our front door. And this reminded me how I really need to make a better [...]
I love Indian food. In fact, it's my favorite kind of food. And that's something I thought I would never say, having grown up in Kansas. That's because in Kansas the typical diet (at least when I was growing up) was cow, potato, and ketchup. And tuna casserole. When I moved away from Kansas, I [...]
This is sort of a follow-up to my previous post on my 5 favorite cooking shows. Like I said before, I started watching more of these kinds of shows this year with Jodi to avoid news, stress, and anger. At the time, I thought that food travel shows would just be an innocent distraction from [...]