OK… I have been working hours on this video and now can’t get it uploaded on YouTube… so you will have to wait one more night for the awesome video of my Son and I…
I apologize, but I have to go to bed.
Shannon

Zachary, my son, and I made a video of baking the best Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies ever. I am editing it as we speak right now. He made it back to Seattle safely, thank you everyone, and now we are planning our next get together.
As I edit the film I think about how funny he [...]

Again, Christmas in the desert surprised me.
First of all, it seems as cold as the Seattle I left a little tiny bit over 2 years ago. It has rained constantly all day.
In all actuality Seattle is under a foot of snow, has been for a week, and many are out of electricity. My [...]

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I have addressed the fact that my mother was not the best of cooks in a previous post… and, having not been the best of cooks, I think there was a little bit of recipe withholding that went on…
A competition of sorts.
Ingredient Coveting if you will. [...]

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I am shocked. Just utterly beffuddled. People who live in the greater Phoenix Metropolitan Area… perhaps all 6 something million of them, don’t know about dungeness crab! I only had two of them over last night (the other is a transplant from Detroit) but they have all 3 [...]

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I love Thai food. I love Vietnamese food. Well, to be honest, I love most foods. Duh.
That being said, when I go to a restaurant and order something really good it becomes my obsession to figure out how to make it. Not because I don’t want to [...]

This recipe is in Loving Memory of Kathleen.
She is not dead.
She moved to Indiana.

I have had a revelation.
I love to write. I love to write about food, ingredients, recipes, cooking techniques… For God’s sake, I could lovingly, longingly write about grocery shopping! My ‘revelation’ is that I can’t stand writing out recipes. It’s painstakingly technical. It takes all of the creativity of cooking and throws it out [...]

My Mother, God rest her soul, was truly the antithesis of a cook. The arch nemesis of a chef. The prototypical, should never have have had 5 children, kind of cook.
But, being Irish Catholic, she just buried her head in the sand, and faked it.
My father was enormously successful when I was young and my [...]

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