Casa Bonita: Adventures in Decor and Unappetizing Food

There is a restaurant in Lakewood, a bit west of Denver, called Casa Bonita. It’s a restaurant with a theme-park atmosphere. We’d heard fabulous things about the decor and horrible things about the food. They all turned out to be true. To get the bad things out of the way first, it’s best to start [...]

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 [...]

Black beans and ceviche and other Mexican-like items best eaten in tubes

I recently decided to make the leap. The Bean Leap. I’d long been in the habit of buying pre-canned black beans for all of my black bean related purposes. At some point, however, I realized I could buy them in dry form, and it would have dual benefits. First, less salt. Second, more dollars! The [...]

Kokoro plus a bonus Twilight chocolate critique!

I continue to curse myself for my unfortunate trend of eating somewhere and neglecting to bring my camera with me. Most notable in this is my visit a few days ago to Kokoro. This is a local Denver chain of Japanese fast food. This makes me happy, as I remember several years ago sitting around [...]

Silicone Bakeware is a Tool of the Devil (a Cupcake Odyssey)

I got some silicone bakeware this past Christmas. Up until now, I’d only been aware of the use of these things as ice cube trays. They make exciting shapes and allow you to peel out an ice cube quite easily. So I was intrigued to get cupcake shapes – now I, too could make exciting [...]

Adventures with a Kashi frozen meal

I should start this off by stating quite clearly that I am not a fan of frozen meals. First of all, the cheaper ones are disgusting. I really don’t know how Banquet manages to stay in business, considering the overall sponge-like qualities of their food and the fact that their chicken nuggets are of the [...]

Like the phoenix, Pizza Hut falls into the ashes only to rise again (AKA I’ve been eating too much pizza lately)

So a little while back, myself and several others ordered some pizza. When in the company of a small group of people who want pizza and are a.) almost all unemployed and b.)dislike eating crap, one’s options are limited. Delicious local pizza is a bit too pricey, and, all of us no longer being in [...]

Yet More Adventures with Pad Thai

So I’ve been on a quest to make tasty pad thai. This quest was created when a bottle of pad thai sauce came into my possession. I will now document two attempts to make pad thai, one a bit more successful then the other. In reading about how to make pad thai, I got overwhelmed [...]

What I Ate for Lunch at Some Point

This will be what I call exceedingly lazy blogging. See, here’s how things usually work. I take pictures, and then after awhile I dump them all out of the camera and into the computer, and hack them up in Photoshop and make them internet worthy. Sometimes I have many many things that I’m making, and [...]

Macaroon Joy(ish)

I love macaroons so bad. They are like magical lumps of coconut and joy. I recently had the joy of eating one, made in the mini-mountains of Southwest Virginia, that was approximately the size of my fist and appeared to a have a stingray composed entirely of chocolate and yes, more joy, affixed to the [...]

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