A decade of coffee, food, and good times.

June 25, 2010

UPDATE: Comments are now working. They’re not displaying, but they are being submitted and stored. They’ll show up when the look and feel goes back to normal. Happy birthday, coffee corner. It’s been ten years since I started blogging. To celebrate, I thought I’d bring you all back to the original, Blogger-powered, wow-I-really-shouldn’t-be-a-designer layout. Compare [...]

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Ooh! My name in “print”!

June 10, 2010

Welcome to all the Houston Press blog readers who found this on Eating Our Words. A big thanks to Katharine for reaching out to me, and for taking the time to edit the near-stream-of-consciousness that she got back in return. There’s plenty of things I have backed up to write about here, but life really [...]

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Know Your Audience

April 27, 2010

I like dining out. I love cooking. But, I’m at my best and happiest when I’m feeding people. That’s the best part, being able to share that meal with others. (Who wants to come over for dinner?) Cooking for the family is all about the long game. It’s no surprise to me that my family [...]

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Comfort Food – Roast Pork

April 20, 2010

Roasted meats – the essential comfort food. Normally, when “pot roast” comes up, images are conjured of lightly seasoned beef, with some root vegetables, somewhere between cooked deliciously and dry-and-leathery. It’s such a simple food, it’s often overlooked as being too basic, too familiar, too trite to remain part of the home cook’s zeitgeist. (How [...]

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Anticipation (Chicken Fricassée)

April 5, 2010

Today is my 32nd birthday. Barring significant medical advancements or major catastrophe, I’ve only got one more power-of-two birthday left. I’ve seen 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, and now 32. I expect I’ll see 64, but I’m not holding my breath for 128. These are the things I think of in the wee hours of [...]

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