I have no idea why they call it monkey bread.  What do monkeys have to do with biscuits and cinnamon and sugar?  It doesn’t make sense.  I’m sure there’s some reason for it, though.  Maybe you intrepid Internet monkeys can figure it out (see what I did there?).  If you’ve never had monkey bread, you’re [...]

You might remember that when I made my balsamic roasted pork tenderloin, I discovered that what I thought was one large tenderloin turned out to be two medium-sized ones.  Well, we only ate one of them, and the second one languished in the fridge for several days.  Poor, lonely pork tenderloin.  Neither of us felt [...]

There are certain members of my family who, when presented with a turgid, glistening pork tenderloin resting moist in its taut plastic, will be unable to refrain from making extremely pornographic genitalia jokes.
Okay, I’m one of them.  It’s pretty hard to resist, what can I say?  It doesn’t help that butchers — those pervs — [...]

I must be doing something right with this food photography experiment — my pot roast ingredients are today’s Daily Food Porn on Slashfood!

My history with eggy dishes is not so good. Wee frittatas aside, most egg-based things turn out to be disasters for me. I’m not even all that good at just plain frying eggs. Fortunately for me, Don’s kind of an egg-frying Rain Man. Utterly incapable of creating anything edible otherwise, but [...]

If you’ve never had tapas before, you should make an effort to try it.  It’s kind of like eating an entire meal of appetizers — which, as we all know, are the best part of the meal anyway.  Our favorite tapas restaurant at the moment is Jaleo, in Crystal City, VA (there’s another location in [...]

We didn’t do anything particularly special for Valentine’s day. If we weren’t so busy, we might have gone out for a nice dinner over the weekend or something, but that just didn’t work out this year. Don got me my favorite peach roses, which the cat has been happily snacking on when we’re [...]

We headed up to New Jersey this weekend to visit family and get a little relaxation time in.  While we were there, we got the chance to visit Gauchos in Westfield, a tiny little Brazilian barbeque restaurant.  And I mean really tiny.  The six of us filled up the biggest table in the place, and [...]

I’m out of food pictures, people.  I was talking with Rachel recently about the difficulty of maintaining regular postings — it makes it hard to just shrug and say “oh, we’ll just order pizza tonight!” because then you haven’t got a new picture, a new recipe, a new post (and then people CALL YOU while [...]

 Weekday breakfasts are often a struggle for me.  I generally wake up at about the time when I ought to be leaving the house, so I stumble through my morning routine as quickly as possible and head out the door without even considering breakfast, which I regret as soon as I sit down at my [...]