One of my favourite lunches – pad Thai!  With my daughter now in kindergarten, I can make lunches that have the proper amount of skull-exploding hot chilies.  The proper amount is LOTS. Alexandra wanted waffles for breakfast one morning.  Bam. Waffles.  (I just used my regular pancake...

Cheap beef.  Cheap, magical beef. Cheap and tough as leather. People that know their beef know that some of the best stuff is some of the cheapest.  The “simmering” steaks, blade steaks, shanks and ox tails that the hoity-toitys pass up are some of the best tasting cuts of cow.  ...

Asian cuisine has been a huge passion of mine lately. When you’re trying to eat more vegetables, less fatty meats and still want to have some interesting, vibrant food, the Orient is where it’s at, yo. Thai, Chinese and Japanese dishes have been huge inspirations for my suppers...

Fresh tagliatelle or fettucine or something with pancetta, tomato and fresh parsley 1/4 cup durum semolina flour 1/2 cup all purpose flour 1 egg 1 or 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 1 or 2 tablespoons chopped pancetta 1 small tomato that’s already got a slice off of it that went...

It’s been a while, but yes, I’ve been eating food. Here’s proof. Alexandra is now in kindergarten so hopefully that’ll mean more time for some cool cooking and shooting. Ah, I’ll probably just go fishing. Here’s some stuff anyway. My first try at tamales....

The Challenge:  Alexandra, 4, is in theatre camp this week, her second week of it, and so we’ve had to make her a boxed lunch for the first time, including snacks.   We’ve made a variety of things, mostly different kinds of sandwiches, but she’s complained several times that...

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