Various Other Ramblings

We had a good deal of pulled pork left over from the batch I made for the parsnip arepas and tacos seemed like the perfect solution for putting it to good use.  I remember always enjoying taco night growing up.   As kids, interactive meals were always the most fun...

While I usually bring you a vegetarian recipe on Tuesdays from the previous evening’s Meatless Monday meal, our dinner last night was anything but meatless (check back on Saturday for that recipe).  Instead, you’re getting another spent grain recipe.  I’ve been cooking with enough of it as of late that...

Everyone has a favorite Girl Scout cookie, and Samoas happen to be mine.  The Girl Scouts celebrated their 100th anniversary on March 12th, and what better way to celebrate than with these homemade Samoas?  I pinned this recipe long ago, thinking to myself “Now that I can make these myself,...

Much like with Super Bowl, Oscars night for me is an excuse to make fun food and get together with friends to drink too much on a Sunday night.  Holly and I were noticing a theme… we’ve always drunk by the time the actual show starts and rarely stay awake...

No, I didn’t make a meal so bad that I had to commission Lila to clean up the evidence… although that does bring to mind a funny story my Grandmother has told me about a cake she once baked that was so bad that the dog wouldn’t eat it.  I...

Just in case you aren’t sick of chickpeas yet.  I’m not, in fact these fried chickpeas are my lunch for the week!  The original recipe is below; I didn’t have cumin seed, so I used ground cumin.  If you like a lot of flavor, I recommend adding more spice than the...

  To have a strong, loving and supportive father figure in your life is to be truly fortunate.  I’m not quite sure of the appropriate word for my having three.  The first I was born with.  Along with his genes, he gave me his likeness, his sense of humor (for...

So graduation is over and we have two big moves to in the next month!   The first is moving Courtney out of his $500 a month mansion in Blacksburg and up to D.C. and the second will be moving into our new apartment on Capitol Hill (sign the lease tomorrow!) I’m...

I still remember the day  that Courtney found out he had gotten into Virginia Tech.  It was 2007, just around this time of year.  I made us a nice dinner (probably a pasta) and served it with a nice bottle of wine (probably a Chianti)… and once that was all said and...