Flaky Biscuits!
Breakfast

Flaky Biscuits!

You've got your tender biscuit people and your flaky biscuit people. I'm most definitely a flaky guy. Wait a minute, that doesn't sound right. Anyhow, there was an unbelievable biscuit recipe in the May 2007 issue …

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Summer, Finally
Miscellany

Summer, Finally

Too tired to write a real post tonight. We were at South 47 Farm today, took Mini-Me for a hayride and picked amazing cucumbers and blackberries and summer squash, and then went to our neighborhood farmer's market in …

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Nishino - Let Me Count The Ways
Restaurants

Nishino - Let Me Count The Ways

Snacky Pants and I just got back from a lovely date-night dinner at Nishino, which is our very favorite Japanese restaurant in Seattle. (My wife is still deciding what nickname she wants to go by on the blog. So for …

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Knives for the Vegetarian Kitchen, Part 1
Miscellany

Knives for the Vegetarian Kitchen, Part 1

If you love to cook, you are probably going to fall in love with knives. I've had many of them over the years, but I've pretty well settled on the set above. I'll walk you through them and tell you what they are and …

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Restaurants

Review: Duck Soup Inn, San Juan Island, WA

Last weekend we were up on San Juan Island in Puget Sound with my wife's folks and a couple of their friends. At the (very fine) farmer's market in Friday Harbor on Saturday morning, one of our crew bought a few …

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