If you’re in downtown Seattle this weekend in the vicinity of the W hotel, you may stumble across a person suffering from a food coma. Seattle is hosting the International Food Blogger Conference. I hate acronyms but I’m caving. It’s IFBC for the next few days. This whole healthy eating thing is on hiatus until […]
It makes my husband crazy when I buy berries in winter. Strawberries from Mexico, blueberries from Chile. Eating seasonally is definitely preferred. And widening our carbon footprint with produce transported across multiple time zones isn’t in keeping with my values. The cause of my lapse? The annual winter veggie/fruit doldrums. It seems to hit every year […]
The recipe said “cut straight through the bone.” What a bold move for a tame Thursday night. I found myself fantasizing about a return trip to Tokyo where I could purchase one of those dramatic cleavers demonstrated so openly at the fish market. At the time of my trip so many years ago I couldn’t […]
No outcries for Thursday’s dinner — a quickie of lentils & sweet potatoes in the pressure cooker with catfish broiled in the oven. Son #1 gave it a thumbs up; Son #2 just shrugged. He’s not much on fish of any sort. I was happy because I took a couple of shortcuts with Emeril Lagasse’s […]
It’s amazing how much dining, and occasional whining, can go on in the course of a year in the family kitchen. This blog is celebrating its first anniversary with 42 meal plans, Yay! Barring travel and a few lazy weeks in the summer, I kept up with the goal to maintain meal plans for a […]
Chorizo-potato tacos with black bean salsa Tuesday started out a bit rough. “I don’t like hard tacos,” Son #1 observed. He’s vocal in the kitchen these days, but actually I agreed on this point. I don’t like tacos at all but the idea of mixing spicy chorizo sausage with potato as a filling was worth […]
We finally did it. DishesMenLike is the new home of the cooking blog formally known as YouAteThat??? (www.youatethat.wordpress.com). If you’ve followed us before, thanks for tagging along. If you’re new, welcome! All the weeknight meal plans and posts logged since January 2010 are found on this site PLUS a new page — “Cook Here…” — […]
When the gas cooktop goes on the fritz, a bit of ingenuity is in order. A little more than a week ago the ignition switches on all six burners suddenly started clicking furiously in the middle of the night. The racket was stopped only by shutting off the power. The repair man returns tomorrow to […]
We’re (way) south of the border for a family vacation. Stay tuned for tales of Tico cuisine!
While I generally avoid the kitchen as the week wanes, it was not so long ago that Friday nights were set aside as regular at-home dinner dates. When the boys were young, my husband and I would retreat to the kitchen after their bedtime. At-home dinner dates were a way for us to catch up, […]
