In the past year or two, our family has been eating less meat.  This is due to our increased awareness of meat quality and harvesting practices, the cost of high-quality meats, and the raising of our daughter as a vegetarian…

I’ve given up buying store-made cookies.  This is no small thing, considering the hundreds, probably thousands, of pounds of cookies I’ve bought in my lifetime.  Along with bananas, cereal, and milk, they were the staple of my years from ten…

My daughter’s growing up, simple as that.  Here’s visual proof: This weekend she graduated to a Big Girl bed.  This is a major change for her, a transition from babydom to freedom.  Now the last vestige of her infancy is…

It’s there, waiting for me in the freezer.  Five pounds of chuck roast from the grass-fed beef CSA.  It’s an expensive enough cut of meat that I can’t mess it up.  No Uncle F$#k-Up this time, no dirt soup, no…

At some point as a parent, you find yourself brushing out the tangles in Toola Roola’s hair.  How does it come to this?  When did I transform from virulent young buck to polyester hair stylist for Hasbro?  It begins with…

Sometimes you have in mind the perfect meal, an effortless combination of the four major food groups that is tasty, easy to make, and nutritious.  And sometimes you open the fridge and stare unblinking for a half minute while your…

Let me paint a picture for you.  It’s been a busy day and you’ve had dinner, done your chores, and are lying on the couch while a TV show about the manufacturing facilities of John Deere combines drones on in…

First things first.  The new flour kicks a$$.  Imagine being forced to hand write with a chunky purple crayon on a sidewalk.  You know you can write well but everything looks like crap.  Then, finally, you are given a pencil…

Last night my wife and I left the United States and stepped onto Portuguese soil for a few hours.  Well, technically it wasn’t soil, it was the well-scrubbed decks of the N.R.P. Sagres, a training vessel of the Portuguese Navy. …

Well well.  Things are looking up.  My local flour supplier does carry organic bread flour after all.  They have the whole time!  Even when they told me they were no longer carrying organic flour!  Tee hee, I feel so silly…