Fast Food and Fast Lives

Fast Food and Fast Lives

  Normally this blog has a recipe for food. Today, it’s about a recipe for life. Particularly if you have children or grandchildren. Suzen and I have two grandchildren, twin boys, who just finished the 6th grade. They live in a suburb of Austin with an intense...

A Cooking by the Book Milestone: 1000 Posts

This post is sans picture, sans recipe, sans story. It’s not an ego thing, but Suzen and I cannot escape noticing a milestone. This is the 1000th post on this blog. We love doing the blog and we appreciate your comments and attention we receive. We are into our...
A Well Fed Cat Still Sheds

A Well Fed Cat Still Sheds

I know that in the past week, I have been derelict in blogging. I was busy internally training my new writing assistant. Blogging is a lonely profession. So to give me company and to protect against any unwanted critters [no, we don’t have mice; she’s just...
Fresh, Fresh Eggs

Fresh, Fresh Eggs

Looks good? It was. Actually, all three of them were. I had the egg on Sunday. On Saturday morning, it was inside the chicken. By late Saturday afternoon, it was in my refrigerator. According to NPR this week, unwashed eggs don’t have to be refrigerator. They...

On Boston

I was starting to blog yesterday when the bombs went off and obviously I had to stop. Suzen and I met in Boston. Our first date on a cold November night ended just around the corner there. We have many Boston memories and treasure the city, its events, and its...