Hooray for Salad Time!

Spring is a glorious time, as it means you can finally look forward to vaguely healthy looking plants in the produce section of your local grocery store. No more shall your tomatoes double as weaponry! Ok, if you feel like spending upwards of $2.50-$3/lb, you can buy healthy looking tomatoes all winter long, but the [...]

Whereupon I Get Creative and Pile Random Things Together

Sometimes I have ingredients in my fridge that don’t seem to coalesce in my head to anything I’ve ever actually made before, but they look tasty and convince me that they’d like to hang out together on a plate. Or I’m hungry for something, but it’s one of those hungers that does not know the [...]

Delicious Guacamole

It is no secret that I am a huge avocado fan. So much so, that this is the second year in a row that I’ve made a video entry for the seemingly annual Avocados from Mexico video contest. Incidentally, this is also the second year in a row that I did not win any money [...]

Avocado goodness, BBQ, and Burgers

I recently got back from a looong drive from Denver to Nashville and back, and while I don’t have pictures, I do have words (just a brief few). First of all, if you are ever in Illinois, Iowa, or Missouri, and you like barbecue, you should check out Bandanas BBQ. There’s at least one off [...]

Delicious Bacon Sushi! (Part 2)

So a little while ago, I applied for a part-time position as a sushi apprentice. Or, more specifically, a sushi apprentice at a sushi bar in a giant nightclub in a giant stone church. Talk about the best job ever. Well, best job ever for someone else, as I did not get the position. Hooray [...]

Delicious Bacon Sushi! (Part 1)

I came up with the idea of making bacon sushi a little while back, and once the idea was there, I could not get it out of my mind. It seemed like such a fabulous idea. How convenient that bacon was on sale at Safeway recently (2 for 1 packs of Jimmy Dean!). We got [...]

Refreshing Salads and Sandwiches

So in the interest of it being hot and summer and all, I will now post about seasonally-appropriate foodstuffs. Mmm…foodstuffs. First off, we have a delightful salad concoction that I first tried at Drew’s cousin Amanda’s birthday party not too long ago. As it has no name that I am aware of, I shall (for [...]

Avocado Video Contest!

As mentioned before, I made a video to enter into a video contest (the “Avocado Video Bowl”) sponsored by Avocados from Mexico. My video stars two of my utensils, Ms. Spoon and Mr. Spatula. They are doing a cooking show about how to make ceviche. Please watch it, it’s super cheesy and super exciting! Five [...]

Whereupon I babble about avocados and then briefly mention pizza

I’ve been busy the past few days. Quite busy, in fact. You see, I am a sucker for a good contest. I stumbled across a really exciting one the other week which involves making a video about avocados to win $5000. So, realising that my video camera was actually a really crappy video feature on [...]

Giant Pile of Mexican Food (maybe?)

Honestly, I’m not sure it’s Mexican. Mexico is pretty far away from my current location, and while I am surrounded with a plethora of delightful (and some not so delightful) Mexican restaurants, I am rather clueless as to their authenticity. Rumor has it that many (if not most) of them are Tex-Mex, in fact. One [...]