fat free opinions on a food centric life
When you live in San Diego, it’s not difficult to find great Mexican food as long as you’re willing to avoid the more obvious chains. Each neighborhood seems to have a local favorite and as much as many can agree that there are special places …
I’ve been working on our patio for a few months now trying to make it more functional and enjoyable. It’s a narrow area that wraps along two sides of our house and much different than the half-acre of hillside we tended at our former house. …
There was a time when the idea of eating duck wasn’t something I was interested in. It’s not that I was avoiding it. To some extent, duck hadn’t been a part of my life, excluding the mallards allowed to quack freely around a neighbor’s yard …
If you’ve asked a kid recently what his or her favorite food is, the likelihood of pizza or hamburgers being the response is fairly high. But if you probed a bit expecting some thought about food coming from their own house — food that didn’t …
I love cooking with wine. Although I do enjoy a dry white splashed into a pan of caramelized shallots for deglazing, or marsala stirred into a mixture of sauteed mushrooms and garlic before a bit of cream is added, I most enjoy meat or poultry …