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June
7
2010

A Bangers and Mash Day

Yesterday was a rainy one. Cool, rainy, gray…a stereotypical Seattle day. We call them June-uary days. Rather than fight it, I embraced it by reading books complete with cats on my lap. Because of the gloom, I felt that a little comfort food was in order and for some reason bangers and mash came to [read more...]

February
8
2010

The Death of an Icon

A short rant on Anthony Bourdain and the Chase credit card fiasco

January
25
2010

Quantity or Quality?

We all have a limited time here on Mother Earth. How do we spend that time? Does quantity trump quality? Or is it the other way around? Do we want to live a long life, or do we want to live? Whatever the answer, it is a uniquely personal one. We all need to keep [read more...]

August
10
2009

William & Jo – A Wedding Story

Instead of the normal rants, recipes and reviews that usually appear here, I’ve decided to write about a wedding Beth and I attended this past Thursday. William and Jo are 2 friends of ours that live out here in Seattle. William I’ve known for over 15 years now. We just met Jo a couple of [read more...]

June
24
2009

Sharing a Meal – The First Facebook

What did we do before Twitter and Facebook? How in the world did we communicate how we were feeling, what we did, where we went? How? I’ll tell you how, we did it face to face, usually over food and/or drink, and it was lovely. Have any of you sat down at the end of [read more...]