Category: Food

11am. Slept 8 hours. Blue sky, 77F. Time to get up, stretch, work out, do some walking then running along the beach, then enjoy the hotel's awesome Sunday brunch on their gorgeous terrace right on...

I need a sturdy, sub 3.2 fl. oz. (100ml for countries with civilized ways of measuring volume) container for hot sauce when traveling. Most plastics, silicones, etcetera, absorb the oils from decent...

Scramble for breakfast: eggs beaten in hot bacon grease, with fried up tomatoes, onion, garlic, spinach, and lardons. For more, see a blog on my personal food blog and recipe website.

The Seattle Symphony's performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony was awesome!

Spiced Fried Red Cabbage. Shredded red cabbage fried over high heat with caraway seeds and paprika until crispy, then tossed with apple cider vinegar and grainy mustard. For more, see a recipe on my...

Spaetzle, simple dough dumplings cooked in boiling water. Made fancier by letting the surface dry and fry up in butter until browned and crispy. Then made fancier yet by mixing in shredded melting...

Sauerbraten, the toughest, cheapest stewing beef roast you can find, marinated for days to weeks in red wine gone bad, browned, then braised in the marinading liquid for hours. After you remove the...

Applesauce, possibly the simplest recipe in my arsenal: cook peeled, cored, chopped apples low and slow until falling apart into a sauce. For more, see a recipe on my personal food blog and recipe...

Jalapeño Cheddar Cornbread Muffins made with melted butter, sugar, and honey, eggs, buttermilk, yellow cornmeal, flour, salt, baking soda, cheddar, and jalapeño. For more, see a recipe on my...

For our Thanksgiving meal, we a) typically have it after Thanksgiving so we can have it with our friends and family, and b) have a German farmers' feast. It traditionally is made post-harvest with...