Denver, CO

First: Mmm, sushi! Second: I’m not sure of the official location of Shogun Sushi. Google Maps places it smack dab in Westminster, but their mailing address says “Arvada.” So, I’ll just be vague and say it’s in the “Denver Metro Area.” Anyhow, we got a check for Christmas that was explicitly meant to be spent [...]

A Brief Overview of Chocolate Delicacies from Trader Joe’s

So yeah, Christmas. That holiday that happened almost a month ago? I’m still eating the chocolate fallout from it. (I still haven’t gotten around to taking down the decorations from it either, but that’s another matter entirely). So Drew and I had the fortune of acquiring a significant amount of chocolate that was from Trader [...]

Yellow Sour Curry Burninating

I haven’t made curry in awhile. Which is a shame, as curry is a delightful thing to make. Well, this past Christmas, since I love asking for food, I got, amongst other things, a bunch of cans of curry paste. I still had a surplus of curry paste from last Christmas that I’ve been too [...]

Chocolate Pecan Pie, Courtesy of Emeril

Chocolate pecan pie is the glorious merging of ingredients into a delicious fatty amalgamation of awesome. Regular pecan pie is already an incredible thing, but chocolate just makes it even better. I don’t have a favorite chocolate pecan pie recipe (yet, at least…) so when I decided to make one recently, I just pulled the [...]

My Big Fat Bloated Holiday Eatings

This will be a recipe-sparse and photo-intense overview of some of the things I got to eat over the holidays. First, we can start with the Christmas birdie. I’d initially taken a giant pile of photos of the process of making this dead bird into a cooked bird, but at some point I apparently decided [...]