Taking Turns My spouse and I take turns planning Valentine’s day. The day after I made a little comment about how I planned it last year (hint-hint), I had a… [Continue Reading]
Pasta From Arkansas?
Arkansas’ little Italy I was approached by a company to try a boxed pasta made in Arkansas, and write about it. After reading a review of the companies (the marketer… [Continue Reading]
Gabby’s Mac-n-Cheese
This is a story of how to make the perfect “dump” casserole using just what you have. Of course this dish was made by Chef Gabby of KOF so this… [Continue Reading]
Cruise: The Virgin Islands
Our cruise visited three islands, one owned and operated by Royal Caribbean called CoCoCay, and two others: St Thomas in the US Virgin Islands, and St Martin. Long a cruise… [Continue Reading]
Cruise: The Kitchens
The Video Experience (2019) Netflix has a series called Mega Foods and episode 6 features the “World’s Biggest Cruise Ship” detail on how they manage to serve so many people… [Continue Reading]
Food and Climate
Worldwide Observations Climate We are living during a time of dramatic climate change as observed in our own neighborhoods. Objectively, we can see, and unfortunately many have personally experienced, continuing… [Continue Reading]
Food Insecurity
What is food insecurity? U.S. Department of Agriculture: Food Insecurity is defined as the lack of consistent, dependable access to adequate food for active, healthy living. According to USDA data:… [Continue Reading]
Zero Waste Possible?
Published 15 January 2020, updated 23 August 2020 Zero Waste Goals @ Work The University I work at has a goal of reducing the waste sent to landfills by 90%… [Continue Reading]
Tea Controversies
Controversies exist whenever two people meet and talk, and they can be about anything. So finding tea controversies should not surprise anyone. Published 10 January 2020; revised 28 September 2023… [Continue Reading]
2020 Resolutions
The Calendar In November Americans celebrate friends and family, and all the things for which we are grateful. Then comes December, which is when many people celebrate religious or ethnic… [Continue Reading]
Let’s Talk Bacon
Purina’s Dog Ad: Beggin’ For Bacon I ran across several articles during my perusal of “food stuff on the web” which sparked an interest in exploring bacon. Of course, thinking… [Continue Reading]
A Greek Holiday Dinner
A Picture Worth 1,000 Words Above is a picture of our new addition, Maggie, waiting by our front window for my spouse + Charlie (GoldenDoodle) to return home from a… [Continue Reading]
Making Phở at Home
What is Phở From my reading, Northern Vietnam created Phở. The word Phở (pronounced “fuh”) is Vietnamese for, what some writers think, is 1) a particular type of rice noodles or… [Continue Reading]