Free Post On the Streets On the Streets: Capitol Hill Fall is the best season. It's the one I always ask to hang on just a little longer. Unless I'm in Arizona, and I'm begging the one week spring not
Free Post Food Shoulda been a tweet: Ruminations on the Meatless Burger I live alone. I hope I'm not alone in this - packages and cans should list serving size as "it depends". Hear me out. I know there's a benefit to portion control. Believe me, I know. But I'll be honest. If I crack open
Free Post On the Streets Vito's Vito's on First Hill is one of my favorite places in Seattle. Dark, underworld lore, red booths, horseshoe bar, piano, and a disco ball or two. Its long history is
Free Post On the Streets On the Streets: Capitol Hill, Seattle I wandered around the hill this evening. A mediocre at best omelette in the morning and some pinto beans (man I love pinto beans) at lunch weren't doing the trick,
Free Post Food Omelette quest update I fired up an omelette this morning. Probably a step or two backwards compared to the previous effort. I learned some things, though. Most importantly, I need to be using a bigger skillet. The omelette needs more room to spread out. Horrible photo with
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Free Post In the kitchen In the Kitchen: Revisiting the French Omelette I had just enough butter sitting in the fridge to have another go at Bill Buford's French omelette, minus the aux fines herbes. (Are the italics The New Yorker's way of indicating a foreign word or phrase?) I've made a few omelettes since the
Free Post On the Streets I'd really miss cheese, eggs, and butter English muffins are like tortillas. Straight out of the bag they're pretty gnarly. You can't convince me otherwise. Today, late afternoon, I needed a snack. I also needed a little
Free Post On the Streets Nostalgia level: High Someone in my building or in my neighborhood is watching a Star Wars-like film. I think their system must be pretty good - lots of lasers and explosions piercing the
Free Post Food Salmon Run and the Circle of Life I haven't been able to say this many times in my life. Tonight I finished a startup business pitch. Lots of typing. I went right through the normal dinner hour. That's not unusual. My stomach started grumbling, and it's slim pickings in the cupboards.
Free Post 24 Mantra A first... I had a big, late lunch today, so I wasn’t sure I’d eat anything for dinner. I ended up firing up a snack, but let me back up. In the past, I wouldn’t have told you what that lunch was, because
Free Post Adobe Audition Cracked a couple of eggs It’s a glorious overcast day. Cool enough that I didn’t mind the thought of turning on the stove for an omelette. I think I’m getting better at this French omelette thing. I’m probably still overcooking the eggs. I’m also
Free Post Bill Buford New Yorker French Omelette Oeuf l'amour A funny thing happened on the way to the Apollo. I realized that I liked my little corner of the internet. Warning – if you come here regularly, you can skip the next 3 sentences. But if you come here regularly, you already know
Free Post Food Went nuclear, head might explode I’m not going near an open flame. I fear my mouth would be as a flamethrower. I should back up. I wandered around Pike/Pine this afternoon/evening watching a protest that had shifted from an outpouring of anger to one of sustained
Free Post Breakfast burritos Southwest dreaming, with a dash of Old Blighty I’m happy to be back here on the blog. I posted some photos of the George Floyd protest marches on Instagram. I think it’s important for people participating or witnessing the powerful, peaceful protests to post the imagery. But that platform and
