Pickled peppers. Unless I was doing tongue twisters to prepare for a voiceover, the words pickled peppers never came out of my mouth. Then, I tasted my brother Bernie’s pickled peppers and was smitten. I couldn’t believe they could be so perfectly crisp, and taste so delicious. I even liked the spicy, hot ones, a minor miracle for my wimpy tastebuds. I begged my brother to tell me…
I just watched a four part series on Netflix called, You Are What You Eat. (Definitely click on that link and check out the trailer.) If we are what we eat, I should be turning into a Costco rotisserie chicken soon. Typing won’t be easy. But it made me realize I could easily live with fewer and maybe no Costco chickens, ground turkey, pork chops, pork roasts and…
Who knew that one little change can take an ordinary vegetable like cauliflower from tasty to killer good? Apparently, my daughter did. She learns this stuff from other people’s food blogs and then tells me. The woman she currently likes is Carla Lalli Music and I can see why, she’s a great cook. At least I know my daughter got started on this food journey because of me,…
I've been watching episodes of NCIS to get me through packing. I'm on season six and still packing, but my eyes are wide open to the many ways someone could do me in. This knowledge will come in handy while driving across the country in a car with 186,000 miles on it.…