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I have watched ‘Iron Chef’ since the very beginning… when it was only Asian Iron Chef Chefs. And, y’know what? The game has definitely changed. I remember when there was, perhaps, one assistant, who could chop like a freaking mad man, and blend like a really bad [...]

It’s New Years Day. I am in Tempe, Arizona. I didn’t wake up until 11 am… Yawn… Stretch… I feel like a cat.
It was 72 degrees by 1pm. It’s a beautiful way to start the New Year, except… Spud has to take something to an account.
But wait… The account is the Biltmore Hotel… [...]

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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. [...]

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 [...]

While this is a cooking/recipe site, I recently started uploading videos to Youtube so that I can put them on my website. I saw this one today… and because I have been busy all weekend doing the Kraft Video Recipe Challenge I didn’t write anything, so… I couldn’t help myself.

Tonight we are having good friends over, or should I say some good friends are coming over - because really, it wasn’t our invite, it was theirs. They want to cook for us, (who would say no to that?) and it was our place or theirs, so I chose ours. Bigger Kitchen, bigger table, and [...]

I live in Tempe, Arizona, home to about 175,000 people, of which approximately 40,000 go to Arizona State University. I moved here from Seattle, Washington for many reasons… too many to list… but I do remember that there was one thought that crossed my mind (more than once), and that was that I would no [...]

Garage Sale Cookbooks are the best in the world. Often times they are really old, which, with food knowledge and changing diets, would mean just 20 years older or more. In those cookbooks you get recipes that you can’t find anymore, anywhere… Recipes with all the fat … PLUS, or even ’shortening’ which I am [...]

I am usually not a procrastinator… really. I’m not. I am, in most situations and instances a get’r done kind of girl… a jump in with both feet and figure it out later, drop from the frying pan into the fire kind of lady. I mean it… I can tie my shoe and keep walking [...]