Category Archives: Food

Alas, my lovely rubber-scraping mixer beater blade. is no match for these chocolate chip cookies.

One of the things about being a vegetable-heavy vegetarian is that it involves a LOT of chopping. I’ve concluded that it’s best to make enough of whatever you’re making so that you get the occasional meal or two or three … Continue reading →

Watermelon Balsamic Salad This is a weird salad, but it’s got a lovely, bright taste, and a great combination of flavours. My friend E was going to send me the recipe, but we went through the ingredients before I went … Continue reading →

Drunk Pineapple Drunk Pineapple is a cinch. Cut up one pineapple. When it’s just us, I use full-sized disks, but when we have others over, I cut them in half, because I’ve found that most people are overwhelmed by a … Continue reading →

Every so often, Michael rings me up and tells me that we’re going to have a party of people up from work . . . sometimes 10, sometimes 20. Sometimes he does this just hours ahead of time. Other times, … Continue reading →

Could there be anything more delightful than a homemade cracker? I will say up front that I do not think the pasta machine is an optional piece of equipment here. I suspect that, for a really good pastry person who … Continue reading →

There’s two kinds of chicken skewers pictured here. The first, sans pineapple, was marinated in Soy Vey’s Hoisin Sauce, the others, in the Soy Vey Island Teriyaki and interlaced with drunken pineapple (pineapple soaked in rum). They go on an … Continue reading →

Virtually nothing is easier than this berry salad. The hardest part is dicing up the strawberries for it (and really, how hard is dicing up a strawberry? Dump washed blueberries, strawberries (cut to bite-sized pieces if you don’t have little … Continue reading →

My friends were teasing me that I didn’t really show up to my own party on the fourth, as I was bee-bopping around the property, keeping an eye on the Seven Hour Braised Lamb: And making hamburgers and Mar-a-Lago Turkey … Continue reading →

This is not a wholly-Fuhrman breakfast, and the Gorgonzola on the watermelon salad makes it not vegan, but this is the kind of thing you’ll find us eating for breakfast around here: We’re getting skinnier, but we’re not starving.  Clockwise, … Continue reading →